A review by losetimereading
Perfect Lies by Kiersten White
3.0
I didn’t have the greatest experience with Mind Games. Granted, I didn’t hate it but it wasn’t one of my favorite books and I had an overall “meh” feeling upon finishing. In fact, while reading, I didn’t think I would want to go on to read the second book but the ending kind of sealed the fate for me… I needed to find out what happened with Annie & Fia!
One of my biggest issues with Mind Games was their was little to no character building. In Perfect Lies, that trend continued with Fia but luckily Annie had quite a bit of growth as a character. Fia annoyed me a ton, and I still was completely confused by her. Annie on the other hand, really came in to her own being that she was separated from Fia. I think being around Fia and the school kept her really isolated so now that she was away from that, she had a ton of room to grow. The only other character that I thought was interesting was “Pixie”. I thought she was fun and spunky, and although suspicious of her, I did really like her. James was untrustworthy to me… I didn’t really know what to think of him, as well as a lot of the other characters.
Perfect Lies still had that general theme of suspicion. Once again I wasn’t certain of anyone or anything and felt a bit clueless, honestly. It follows the same point of views, Annie and Fia, going back and forth between different timelines. I’m not sure how I feel about it really. I thought a lot of the time that the chapters didn’t match up and I felt it was really choppy and scattered. At nearly 70% completion I felt confused and uncertain of what was going on. After reading Mind Games and now feeling this way again in Perfect Lies, I think it’s safe to say this type of narration and story telling didn’t work for me. Luckily, the story is really fast paced and while it might be hard to follow, I still felt like the story progressed rather quickly and didn’t feel like I wanted to put it down.
Overall, I enjoyed the ending. I was surprised because I really didn’t see the ending that happened coming. I expected something totally different and I was pleasantly surprised. Kiersten White does have a way with shocking the reader!
I did enjoy this series enough to say, “Give it a try.” I’m happy that it was a duology and the plot was interesting enough to keep me reading.
One of my biggest issues with Mind Games was their was little to no character building. In Perfect Lies, that trend continued with Fia but luckily Annie had quite a bit of growth as a character. Fia annoyed me a ton, and I still was completely confused by her. Annie on the other hand, really came in to her own being that she was separated from Fia. I think being around Fia and the school kept her really isolated so now that she was away from that, she had a ton of room to grow. The only other character that I thought was interesting was “Pixie”. I thought she was fun and spunky, and although suspicious of her, I did really like her. James was untrustworthy to me… I didn’t really know what to think of him, as well as a lot of the other characters.
Perfect Lies still had that general theme of suspicion. Once again I wasn’t certain of anyone or anything and felt a bit clueless, honestly. It follows the same point of views, Annie and Fia, going back and forth between different timelines. I’m not sure how I feel about it really. I thought a lot of the time that the chapters didn’t match up and I felt it was really choppy and scattered. At nearly 70% completion I felt confused and uncertain of what was going on. After reading Mind Games and now feeling this way again in Perfect Lies, I think it’s safe to say this type of narration and story telling didn’t work for me. Luckily, the story is really fast paced and while it might be hard to follow, I still felt like the story progressed rather quickly and didn’t feel like I wanted to put it down.
Overall, I enjoyed the ending. I was surprised because I really didn’t see the ending that happened coming. I expected something totally different and I was pleasantly surprised. Kiersten White does have a way with shocking the reader!
I did enjoy this series enough to say, “Give it a try.” I’m happy that it was a duology and the plot was interesting enough to keep me reading.