Name: This Is Why We Lied
Rating: 3.833333333333333 (3 reviews)
ISBN: 9780008625832

Karin Slaughter

The incredible new thriller featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author!

This Is Why We Lied

It was not bad, quite entertaining, but here’s why it’s not going to be 3+ stars book for me: 

- The so called ‘plot twist’ was not a plot twist at all for me. Guessed one of the things after the first chapter and the other things after a few other chapters. I like to be surprised and staring at my book like ‘What?!?’ and that sadly didn’t happen. 

- It’s too long. In some chapters it’s about people telling other people what happened in the previous chapters. Lots of repetition, boring to read. I guess in real life things would also go this way, telling other people what happened, but in a book like this I think it would have been sufficient if they just said ‘And then [name] explained what happened’ or something like that haha… Don’t need to get the same information over and over again. 

- I find it kinda cocky when you let one of your characters say that everything that happened in this story seems like a story from famous writers like Agatha Christie lol. 

Taryn

It was not bad, quite entertaining, but here’s why it’s not going to be 3+ stars book for me: 

- The so called ‘plot twist’ was not a plot twist at all for me. Guessed one of the things after the first chapter and the other things after a few other chapters. I like to be surprised and staring at my book like ‘What?!?’ and that sadly didn’t happen. 

- It’s too long. In some chapters it’s about people telling other people what happened in the previous chapters. Lots of repetition, boring to read. I guess in real life things would also go this way, telling other people what happened, but in a book like this I think it would have been sufficient if they just said ‘And then [name] explained what happened’ or something like that haha… Don’t need to get the same information over and over again. 

- I find it kinda cocky when you let one of your characters say that everything that happened in this story seems like a story from famous writers like Agatha Christie lol. 

Okay that’s it I guess :).

What do you get when you mash a brilliantly atmospheric crime procedural with the vintage feel of a locked room murder?  Almost perfection!!!

Will and Sara are on their honeymoon and still they manage to find a murder to solve. McAlpine Lodge is remote and beautiful but it hides a lot of secrets, the newest more shocking than the last.  The story is told by slipping backwards in time occasionally to see parts of the story unfold as they are discovered in the current timeline.  It really made for an interesting story.

Mercy, our victim, comes from the most toxic family I've ever had the misfortune to read about.  I really wanted a shower after parts of the story were revealed.  She isn't the most sympathetic of victims and you really have to work sometimes to feel sorry she is gone!

There are some almighty twists and just when you think the murder is solved, there is one more twist to make you gasp.

Faith and Amanda all make an appearance to help solve the murder and I love this little family that Will has built for himself.

Nicola Sarah Brooks

What do you get when you mash a brilliantly atmospheric crime procedural with the vintage feel of a locked room murder?  Almost perfection!!!

Will and Sara are on their honeymoon and still they manage to find a murder to solve. McAlpine Lodge is remote and beautiful but it hides a lot of secrets, the newest more shocking than the last.  The story is told by slipping backwards in time occasionally to see parts of the story unfold as they are discovered in the current timeline.  It really made for an interesting story.

Mercy, our victim, comes from the most toxic family I've ever had the misfortune to read about.  I really wanted a shower after parts of the story were revealed.  She isn't the most sympathetic of victims and you really have to work sometimes to feel sorry she is gone!

There are some almighty twists and just when you think the murder is solved, there is one more twist to make you gasp.

Faith and Amanda all make an appearance to help solve the murder and I love this little family that Will has built for himself.

This Is Why We Lied

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