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A review by nancy_ahyee
Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald
3.0
Publisher’s description: If you can’t remember it, how do you prove you didn’t do it?
Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can’t remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her.
Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London—Kat’s former home—for answers. But as she unravels her mother’s carefully held secrets, Eva soon realizes that someone doesn’t want her to know the truth. And with violent memories beginning to emerge, Eva doesn’t know who to trust. Least of all herself.
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Told from the alternating perspectives of Kat (starting 25 years ago and moving toward present day) and Eva, Christina McDonald’s “Behind Every Lie” does a great job of grabbing the reader and keeping things moving with the shifts between the two and the hints that get dropped along the way. I kept trying to figure out who the bad guys were even though I was pretty sure I knew who the bad guys weren’t. That’s what kept me reading.
What knocked the book down to 3 stars for me was that all of the things that happen to Eva seem like too much by the end of the book. I don’t want to give anything away because there are clearly other reviewers who felt otherwise, so I don’t want to ruin it for anyone else. That said, for me, when the situations pile on and on and on, I get to a point where I’m thinking, “Enough already,” and I just want to finish so I’m not really enjoying the story.
Thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review. This title will be available April 1, 2020.
Eva Hansen wakes in the hospital after being struck by lightning and discovers her mother, Kat, has been murdered. Eva was found unconscious down the street. She can’t remember what happened but the police are highly suspicious of her.
Determined to clear her name, Eva heads from Seattle to London—Kat’s former home—for answers. But as she unravels her mother’s carefully held secrets, Eva soon realizes that someone doesn’t want her to know the truth. And with violent memories beginning to emerge, Eva doesn’t know who to trust. Least of all herself.
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Told from the alternating perspectives of Kat (starting 25 years ago and moving toward present day) and Eva, Christina McDonald’s “Behind Every Lie” does a great job of grabbing the reader and keeping things moving with the shifts between the two and the hints that get dropped along the way. I kept trying to figure out who the bad guys were even though I was pretty sure I knew who the bad guys weren’t. That’s what kept me reading.
What knocked the book down to 3 stars for me was that all of the things that happen to Eva seem like too much by the end of the book. I don’t want to give anything away because there are clearly other reviewers who felt otherwise, so I don’t want to ruin it for anyone else. That said, for me, when the situations pile on and on and on, I get to a point where I’m thinking, “Enough already,” and I just want to finish so I’m not really enjoying the story.
Thanks to NetGalley and Gallery Books for an advance digital copy in exchange for an honest review. This title will be available April 1, 2020.