Lie Lay Lain
Jennifer has a great job and a go-getter fiancé. She's on track for success, until she witnesses a fatal hit-and-run. Mistaking Jennifer for someone else, the dying victim extracts an impossible promise. Jennifer's fiancé wants her to forget the whole incident, but when she closes her eyes, she can still see the bloody face of the woman who asked for her help. Olivia is in a rut. Burdened with caring for her brain-damaged brother and already feeling like a spinster at 27, she's desperate to escape. In a moment of weakness, she tells a lie that draws an unsuspecting paramedic into her life. As she struggles to expiate the lie, a horrible act of violence will test her resolve to be honest. Where Jennifer's promise and Olivia's lie intersect, their lives begin to unravel.
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I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
The first chapter when the hit and run first happened I thought this is interesting and I could see real possibilities for the story. Then the second chapter followed. I honestly didn't like either Jennifer or Olivia. In fact I didn't like any of the characters. Jennifer was shallow and judgemental. Olivia was a dull pushover. They both had people bulldoze their wants and lives.
Around page 200 I thought that would be a good place to end the book. There was a sense of closer regarding Shanti and Olivia only needed one or two more chapters to fix what was wrong in her life. Then I looked down at how many pages I had left. There were over a hundred. Funny enough it was a little past this point in the book where I began to be interested in what was going to happen to the characters. By the time I reach that point the only real thing I had invested in this story was my time, which wasn't really enough of an impression to actually touch me.
The first chapter when the hit and run first happened I thought this is interesting and I could see real possibilities for the story. Then the second chapter followed. I honestly didn't like either Jennifer or Olivia. In fact I didn't like any of the characters. Jennifer was shallow and judgemental. Olivia was a dull pushover. They both had people bulldoze their wants and lives.
Around page 200 I thought that would be a good place to end the book. There was a sense of closer regarding Shanti and Olivia only needed one or two more chapters to fix what was wrong in her life. Then I looked down at how many pages I had left. There were over a hundred. Funny enough it was a little past this point in the book where I began to be interested in what was going to happen to the characters. By the time I reach that point the only real thing I had invested in this story was my time, which wasn't really enough of an impression to actually touch me.
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