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The Good Lie
by A.R. Torre
I appreciate a good couple of these per year.
TL; DR: In a drama that disguises itself as a crime thriller, The Good Lie fills its pages with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing while never quite hitting the highs of adrenaline, nor moments of “aha” that’s perfect for a story like this. Fortunately, it’s built for cinema and promises you plenty of intrigue while your IV drip of info slowly pumps into your veins.
This was a good one, don’t let my grade or loss of stars destroy what should be regarded as a good book. It just wasn’t perfect for me. Overall, it has everything you could hope for: grisly murders, tentative romance, questions, queries, and qualms. It’s a great setup for a good story…I just didn’t love how it played out. That won’t dock it a lot from me, but it’s certainly taken into account.
Characters: They were all hateable for their very human behaviors. Gwen was fine, but the ego was hard for me to get past. Robert was cool, I understood his motivations and such. There were multiple characters that needed a slap, I would’ve happily given it to them, which I suppose most of the time means they’re well-written, so there.
Setting: LA is so popular for some reason, I’ll never be able to fathom why. It works here, for a variety of reasons, but it isn’t anything spectacular or jaw-dropping for its usage. The whole book could have taken place in [insert large city name here] and I wouldn’t have known the difference.
Story: It’s a good one, guessable, but good. I think a majority of the problems I had with the writing was that, because of the premise, the story is a little handicapped from the start. The way things are laid out or people are expanded upon means that if you pay attention to the way it is written, the story will come to light pretty easily. It’s just inherent in the style of story, so pretty unavoidable.
Writing: It’s solid writing and I was very impressed at all of the little details in physicality and character motions, but I still had issues with what I talked about in the previous paragraph.
I’m happy with the way this turned out, similar vibes to The Silent Patient, even though they’re nothing alike. It was fun to get into another crime novel and I’ve got a couple more on my shelf that are getting more appealing as we speak, so thank you to this book for that as well.
4.2 🌟
TL; DR: In a drama that disguises itself as a crime thriller, The Good Lie fills its pages with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing while never quite hitting the highs of adrenaline, nor moments of “aha” that’s perfect for a story like this. Fortunately, it’s built for cinema and promises you plenty of intrigue while your IV drip of info slowly pumps into your veins.
This was a good one, don’t let my grade or loss of stars destroy what should be regarded as a good book. It just wasn’t perfect for me. Overall, it has everything you could hope for: grisly murders, tentative romance, questions, queries, and qualms. It’s a great setup for a good story…I just didn’t love how it played out. That won’t dock it a lot from me, but it’s certainly taken into account.
Characters: They were all hateable for their very human behaviors. Gwen was fine, but the ego was hard for me to get past. Robert was cool, I understood his motivations and such. There were multiple characters that needed a slap, I would’ve happily given it to them, which I suppose most of the time means they’re well-written, so there.
Setting: LA is so popular for some reason, I’ll never be able to fathom why. It works here, for a variety of reasons, but it isn’t anything spectacular or jaw-dropping for its usage. The whole book could have taken place in [insert large city name here] and I wouldn’t have known the difference.
Story: It’s a good one, guessable, but good. I think a majority of the problems I had with the writing was that, because of the premise, the story is a little handicapped from the start. The way things are laid out or people are expanded upon means that if you pay attention to the way it is written, the story will come to light pretty easily. It’s just inherent in the style of story, so pretty unavoidable.
Writing: It’s solid writing and I was very impressed at all of the little details in physicality and character motions, but I still had issues with what I talked about in the previous paragraph.
I’m happy with the way this turned out, similar vibes to The Silent Patient, even though they’re nothing alike. It was fun to get into another crime novel and I’ve got a couple more on my shelf that are getting more appealing as we speak, so thank you to this book for that as well.
4.2 🌟