A review by scknitter
The Elizas by Sara Shepard

5.0

The Elizas starts with Eliza Fontaine waking up in the hospital after supposedly jumping into a hotel pool to try and commit suicide (she can’t swim). This is apparently not the only time this has happened, only this time Eliza is sure she didn’t jump – she was pushed. All of this occurs about a week before her first novel, The Dots, is about to be released. A book she wrote in weeks following surgery for a non-malignant brain tumor. A book her family knows nothing about. The Elizas is a book within a book where fact and fiction are hard to separate. Eliza’s family just wants to help her but are they doing more harm than good when they keep things from her. Eliza is so sure that she didn’t jump, this time at least, that she is determined to find out what has really been happening in her life. She enlists the help of the quirky young man who pulled her out of the pool, one of the few people she thinks she can trust, and they embark on a roller coaster ride that uncovers mental illness, cover ups, betrayals and lots and lots of lies.