sadies_reading_nook 's review for:

The Lies That Bind by Emily Giffin

3.5

dark sad slow-paced

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LOLOL let’s get this out of the way. Good book, I enjoyed, blah blah. 

I’m not sure why 9/11 had to be incorporated into the book, it felt very strange to use a major REAL life event for this. I had qualms with two people falling in love almost immediately, and thought cecily was an idiot to believe Grant would stay faithful on his trip abroad immediately after meeting her, but fine. 

Then when she travels all the way to London

and he calls her his friend??? Should have ended it there

but she didn’t so it’s fine. 

Then he “dies”. She finds out he was married. She befriends the widow… like really befriends.

I can get past it I guess. I understand, in a weird way, how that might help her grieve. 

What I can’t get past, is finding out

grant is alive, cecily finds him, and then grant has the absolute audacity to act like cecily is in the wrong for moving on? Like cecily is the weird one for having trouble explaining things. You faked your death bro. You had an affair. Then you have the balls to pretend cecily is in the wrong for moving on?

genuinely goodbye are you insane? 

It felt very

telenovela

which I’m fine with, I love a good could-never-happen-in-real-life trope. I’ll get on board. But I don’t feel like it worked in this book. We had a real event like 9/11, then the crazy

I’m dead but not dead

plot… doesn’t mesh. It made me dislike cecily somehow