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A review by heamarhar
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
3.0
2.5
I. Could. Not. Stand. this bunch of characters (except maybe Fatima?). They are horrible people! I know that is the point because it's all about how they are liars in past and present, but even as adults they are just reprehensible. And the story moved like molasses. I wanted the main character to just get on with it, and when the "big lie" was finally revealed... I was SO let down! I expected a much more interesting story than this delivered. The whole time I was thinking of 1000 ways they could have handled the big lie better. I thought the rest of it, post-big-lie drama, was predictable and cobbled together. No way a group of friends that close-knit didn't put two and two together.
I found the setting difficult to picture, but to be fair, I just now looked up what the hell a salt marsh is and what a mill at one would look like, which I definitely should have done when I started the book.
And finally, don't get me started on books that rely on women having babies to finally gain empathy after a lifetime of being awful to people. LMAO. My least favorite trope ever. I think this year, I'm going to try and keep away from books that involve pregnancy or motherhood, because they are all the same in the end, and all I get out of them is disappointment.
I. Could. Not. Stand. this bunch of characters (except maybe Fatima?). They are horrible people! I know that is the point because it's all about how they are liars in past and present, but even as adults they are just reprehensible. And the story moved like molasses. I wanted the main character to just get on with it, and when the "big lie" was finally revealed... I was SO let down! I expected a much more interesting story than this delivered. The whole time I was thinking of 1000 ways they could have handled the big lie better. I thought the rest of it, post-big-lie drama, was predictable and cobbled together. No way a group of friends that close-knit didn't put two and two together.
I found the setting difficult to picture, but to be fair, I just now looked up what the hell a salt marsh is and what a mill at one would look like, which I definitely should have done when I started the book.
And finally, don't get me started on books that rely on women having babies to finally gain empathy after a lifetime of being awful to people. LMAO. My least favorite trope ever. I think this year, I'm going to try and keep away from books that involve pregnancy or motherhood, because they are all the same in the end, and all I get out of them is disappointment.