Name: Lies She Told
ISBN: 9781683312956

Cate Holahan

From the author of The Widower's Wife, Crooked Lane's best-selling title of 2016 and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year, comes an electrifying story of love and deceit.

Lies She Told

Arturo Hernández

A quick suspense thriller. The story is not that novel, however it sure is entertaining. Could be a good movie script for a nice Sunday film.

Skye Sherman

Okay, I wasn’t expecting much from this book, but it turned out to be a serious page turning thriller! I couldn’t put it down! The two stories going on at the same time got a little confusing at times, but it’s amazing how Holahan kept them both straight. A super quick read with fascinating twist after twist and an air of mystery throughout.

Cindy

This was confusing at first and I really had to pay attention. I found this to be a good thriller with a bit of a twist. I found this to be an okay read and I admit that I could see where this book was going. Overall not my favorite book.

Jill Basilone

3.5. I liked it all excepted the last chapter. Kind of a let down

Katrina White

Convoluted for no reason... I end up putting my audio book on 3 times speed to rush through it so that I would not dnf another book this month!

Tanya Sutton

The book-within-a-book format of this novel was a fresh take on a familiar suspense genre trope - the unreliable husband. The added complication of memory loss in Liza's narration added an additional layer of unreliability, creating a book full of fairly well-developed characters that couldn't be trusted. Rather than feel too tropey, Holahan found the right mix of believable and unnerving. This was a great book by a young author and I can't wait to see what Holahan writes next.

Lori Keenom

This book was great until the the twist at the end and it took a turn which made it more like a 2.5 star book. But goodreads doesn't give half stars so there's that.

Jolie

Lies She Told is a gripping mystery/thriller that follows Liza and Beth as they deal with some horrible things that are going on in their lives. Liza is trying to start a family with her husband who is dealing the disappearance of his best friend. Beth just had a baby and is suspicious that her husband is cheating on her. But the catch is that Beth is a fictional character in a book that Liza is reading. Which reminded me of Inception except it was a book within a book instead of a dream within a dream within a dream.

I have read books like that before and they have always fallen short of the mark for me. But with Lies She Told, I was very impressed with how the author handled both stories. I mean, Beth’s story was completely different from Liza’s but they were the same (need to read the book). Which impressed me. The scene where everything was tied together kind of blew my mind because I honestly didn’t connect the two stories until then.

I did think that Liza was a bit flaky throughout the whole book. But I blamed it on the experimental hormones that she was taking. But the more I got into the book, the more I realized that there was more to her story than what the author was letting on. So when the author did her first plot twist, I wasn’t really surprised (I was expecting it) but I wasn’t expecting the other plot twists (yes, there are more than one).

Beth’s storyline was really good too. Again, I kinda saw what happened coming but I was pretty shocked at how her story ended.

The ending was not what I expected and I loved it. So many secrets were revealed that my head was spinning but in a good way.

How many stars will I give Lies She Told: 4

Why: A great mystery that keeps you guessing until the end of the book.

Will I reread: Yes

Will I recommend to family and friends: Yes

Age range: Adult

Why: Sex, language, and violence

**I chose to leave this review after reading an advance reader copy**