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A review by elisabeth_julia
The Lie by Karina Halle
3.0
Brigs and Natasha are a couple that stayed with me. Their relationships dynamic is just so intense and wonderful. Even individually they both are interesting characters that make reading this book worthwhile. “The Lie” is another beautiful romance in Halle’s MacGregor men book series. It is also quite emotional and heartbreaking. At times I felt gutted while reading this. The story makes you keep turning the pages and I finished this within a day.
Although I loved “The Lie”, this is not a perfect book and I had some issues with it. The book starts with Brigs’ wife and son dying in a car crash after a fight between this couple in which Brigs reveals that he has been cheating on her. (This is no spoiler, it happens in the first chapter). Now, cheating in itself is already super problematic in romance novels especially when it gets justified somehow. Surprisingly, the author tackles this challenge quite well for the most part and I love her for making risky moves in her books! However, one particular thing was entirely unnecessary: Brig’s wife was portrayed as a completely irrational and cold-hearted person who chose to drive off with her little son at night in terrible weather conditions, without a kids-car seat (!!!) after several high alcohol percentage drinks (!!!). In short: Karina Halle was overdoing it with that one. It makes the accident clearly the wife’s fault and makes Brigs guilt seem like an overreaction. It would have been a more interesting book if his wife was likeable to some degree and didn’t drive off drunk, without car seat, at night, in a storm (I mean could you invent any more hazardous and irrational decisions?). It just cheapens the book in an unnecessary way.
Secondly, I didn’t like Brigs as much as Lachlan or Keir from the other books in the series, sorry!
Although I loved “The Lie”, this is not a perfect book and I had some issues with it. The book starts with Brigs’ wife and son dying in a car crash after a fight between this couple in which Brigs reveals that he has been cheating on her. (This is no spoiler, it happens in the first chapter). Now, cheating in itself is already super problematic in romance novels especially when it gets justified somehow. Surprisingly, the author tackles this challenge quite well for the most part and I love her for making risky moves in her books! However, one particular thing was entirely unnecessary: Brig’s wife was portrayed as a completely irrational and cold-hearted person who chose to drive off with her little son at night in terrible weather conditions, without a kids-car seat (!!!) after several high alcohol percentage drinks (!!!). In short: Karina Halle was overdoing it with that one. It makes the accident clearly the wife’s fault and makes Brigs guilt seem like an overreaction. It would have been a more interesting book if his wife was likeable to some degree and didn’t drive off drunk, without car seat, at night, in a storm (I mean could you invent any more hazardous and irrational decisions?). It just cheapens the book in an unnecessary way.
Secondly, I didn’t like Brigs as much as Lachlan or Keir from the other books in the series, sorry!