A review by emmabeckman
Sweet Little Lies by Caz Frear

4.0

Well that was pretty good! I guessed the official final reveal pretty early, but the roundabout reveals were surprising to me. It’s definitely a slow moving police procedural, so if you don’t like those, you won’t like this. This book was a lot like Tana French, without all the useless repetitive information that would have make it 200 pages longer. I liked that the main baddie wasn’t the one who monologued in the end, it was more a baddie-by-proxy. But I would have preferred that whole situation to have been slowly uncovered by the police rather than in one big reveal. Lastly, the one thing I really didn’t like was that the case that Cat dealt with before that caused her to go to therapy seemed SO irrelevant and everything we learned from that were things we learned just from her present and her relationship with her family. It didn’t add to our understanding of her character, just repeated what we already knew. And it just seemed like a plot device where she could talk things out in a dialogue instead of the author just telling the reader if that makes sense. Still, I’d definitely check out her next book coming out this year!

Bonus: this is never officially stated, but I think Cat can definitely be read as bisexual which I loved.