Reviews

Monday's Lie by Jamie Mason

jeannemurray3gmailcom's review against another edition

4.0

Really good. Worth reading. A very different kind of thriller/mystery. A little tedious at first while the reader is searching for the plot, but everything is necessary. The author goes back and forth from the present to the past. She makes it very evident that the present exists because of the past.

Ironic that Dee's wish for "normal" gives her a husband that plots to murder her.

kiks396's review against another edition

3.0

This was one wild ride. I was dutifully kept on the edge of my seat, and only got slightly annoyed with the constant reference to Dee's childhood and upbringing. A good, solid read that was intriguing and suspenseful.

zzzrevel's review against another edition

1.0

Ugh! This book should have been 100 pages SHORTER and better organized.
It was painful to get through to find out what was going on.

junekramin's review against another edition

5.0

I loved the characters & all the little fun sayings they shared as a family. The text messages that the siblings sent when they needed each other were "awwww" moments for me. I love things that make you think about the author's life. There were great twists to the story. As someone that knows what's going to happen in every move & book, I was surprised at the twists at the end.

pocn7's review against another edition

3.0

I really enjoyed the plot of the novel. The concept kept me interested. I just couldn't seem to get invested in the characters. I just couldn't relate. But I still enjoyed the overall story.

christinak3's review against another edition

2.0

The storyline of the novel was intriguing, however the way it was written was sort of flat. It had long drawn out pages of things that made sense to the over all story but made it take way too long to get down to the interesting parts. At times I had to force myself to keep reading and even had to reread long drawn out paragraphs.

juniestars's review against another edition

2.0

I had a hard time finishing this book. It just didn't grab my attention. Seemed to be a lot of back and forth and no real development of the story.

angrygreycatreads's review against another edition

1.0

I saw this as a recommendation on Goodreads and picked it up from my local library. The concept is really good. Plucky is the grown woman whose mother was a covert operative. Growing up her mother taught Plucky and her brother Simon skills in the form of “games” they played as a family until they became second nature. Plucky wants nothing to do with the life she had growing up and is determined to have a “normal life” and thinks she has found it with her husband.

The issue is I had with the book is the meandering path the story takes. It ventures back and forth randomly from past to present almost in a stream of consciousness style. It repeats many of the same points. It really feels like there was really only about 100 pages worth of story that was repeated and filled in with excessive wordiness to make it to 280 pages.

I liked the idea for this novel, however the execution didn’t work for me.

jkerski's review against another edition

2.0

I wanted to like it more, such a promising premise!
But the writing dragged and the characters got tedious :(

caidyn's review against another edition

3.0

In a way, this reminded me of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. (I haven't actually seen the movie, but I know the premise.) Then, it had the layer of Dee's mom on top of everything, how she taught her and influenced her down to that very moment. Prose was gorgeous and I really liked that part of it. Story, for me, just fell a bit flat. I tracked most of it, but then I could space out and feel I had missed nothing more than another remembrance of her mother. Perhaps the story wasn't for me. I'm not really the target audience, in my opinion; I'm not a woman, nor am I married or lost a parent. But I could still appreciate it.