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A review by dragoninwinterfell
There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari
emotional
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
5.0
The title of the book "There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish" might be a bit of an exaggeration, but this book is excellent. Through an extensive compilation of emails, text messages, and other forms of social media Anna Akbari tells the story of her experience in being catfished by Dr. Emily Slutsky Marantz.
This story was so riveting that I finished it in less than a day. I kept finding excuses to listen to the audiobook to find out what happened next even though I went in knowing what happened. I particularly loved the epistolary style using the actual words and full conversations between Anna and Emily Slutsky Marantz, as well as the interactions between Emily and her other victims. As noted above, this catfisher is currently a doctor. The women she targeted were also professional and accomplished women, which took the manipulation and emotional abuse to a higher level.
This story was so riveting that I finished it in less than a day. I kept finding excuses to listen to the audiobook to find out what happened next even though I went in knowing what happened. I particularly loved the epistolary style using the actual words and full conversations between Anna and Emily Slutsky Marantz, as well as the interactions between Emily and her other victims. As noted above, this catfisher is currently a doctor. The women she targeted were also professional and accomplished women, which took the manipulation and emotional abuse to a higher level.