A review by ramseyhootman
Lie Lay Lain by Bryn Greenwood

5.0

For about half a minute, I thought this book was gonna suck. A woman obsessed with fancy shoes? Really? Ugh.

And then by the end of the first scene, I was practically in tears. Rarely does a book affect me that much, and the end of that first scene is just the beginning of a story I could not put down until I had finished. I didn't even want anyone to talk to me while I was reading it. Just shut up, everyone, because these people are so real to me that my actual life seems secondary.

Greenwood's eye for detail is phenomenal, and her dialogue so pitch-perfect that I didn't even feel like I'd just read a book. I felt like I'd become intimately acquainted with two very real people - aspirations, faults, insecurities and all. I tried to start another book after I finished, and I couldn't do it. Jennifer and Olivia were people to me; I cared about them deeply, and I needed time to let them go.

This book goes up on my list of all-time favorites. I wish it was coming out before Christmas, because I want to buy it for every woman I know.