Review – The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark @jclarkab #newrelease #netgalley

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Synopsis

 

Two women. Many aliases.

Meg Williams. Maggie Littleton. Melody Wilde. Different names for the same person, depending on the town, depending on the job. She’s a con artist who erases herself to become whoever you need her to be—a college student. A life coach. A real estate agent. Nothing about her is real. She slides alongside you and tells you exactly what you need to hear, and by the time she’s done, you’ve likely lost everything.

Kat Roberts has been waiting ten years for the woman who upended her life to return. And now that she has, Kat is determined to be the one to expose her. But as the two women grow closer, Kat’s long-held assumptions begin to crumble, leaving Kat to wonder who Meg’s true target is.

The Lies I Tell is a twisted domestic thriller that dives deep into the psyches and motivations of two women and their unwavering quest to seek justice for the past and rewrite the future.

 

 

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Review

 

Quite the tale which is told from the perspective of Meg (the grifter/con artist) and Kat (the journalist).

Everything is not as it seems and the way to truly con someone is to know them better than they know themselves. Both Meg and Kat have someone that they want to take down for horrible treatment in the past. How they approach those events is very different. Kat is crippled by emotions and inaction. Meg is a doer and is always thinking 3 steps ahead (if not more).

I didn’t want to like Meg, but she has more redeeming qualities than you might think. Kat needed to find her inner strength and it took her the whole book, but she does find it and I found it quite interesting the path she started down in order to right some wrongs in her life.

While the book is told mostly told in the present, there are some flashes to the past that help to round out the story and give us a deeper understanding of these women.

I think in the end that these two women might have actually formed a friendship, at least one of understanding that maybe they were more alike than they realized.

Worth the read and we give it 5 paws up.

 

 

 

 

About the Author

 

Julie Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of The Ones We Choose and The Last Flight, which was also a #1 international bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her family and a golden doodle with poor impulse control.

 

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