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theqissilent 's review for:
Escaping Reality
by Lisa Renee Jones
Originally posted on 80 Books Blog
Escaping Reality is the first book in The Secret Life of Amy Benson series of novels and follows Amy as she tries to avoid the people who murdered her family, as well as find out who her secret protector is.
After fleeing New York at the urging of this protector, Amy meets and falls for billionaire architect Liam Stone. Insta-love never really works and this is no exception. For someone who’s spent six years of her life on the run and using a secret identity, Amy gets wrapped up in Liam all too easily, though she holds any and everyone else under deep suspicion. At one point, Liam comes off as an abusive gas-lighter, which the author explains away by an encounter Liam has with the father who abandoned him at a young age. There are red flags everywhere about this relationship that we’re supposed to accept as just an alpha man protecting his woman. The cliffhanger will leave you questioning his motivations as much as Amy should’ve been doing for the entirety of the novel.
What does work for Escaping Reality are the little crumbs we get of what happened to Amy’s family and why it happened. The mystery of her archaeologist father and the secrets her mother and brother were obviously hiding that led to their deaths are intriguing enough to keep readers around wanting the answers.
Ebook provided by NetGalley
Escaping Reality is the first book in The Secret Life of Amy Benson series of novels and follows Amy as she tries to avoid the people who murdered her family, as well as find out who her secret protector is.
After fleeing New York at the urging of this protector, Amy meets and falls for billionaire architect Liam Stone. Insta-love never really works and this is no exception. For someone who’s spent six years of her life on the run and using a secret identity, Amy gets wrapped up in Liam all too easily, though she holds any and everyone else under deep suspicion. At one point, Liam comes off as an abusive gas-lighter, which the author explains away by an encounter Liam has with the father who abandoned him at a young age. There are red flags everywhere about this relationship that we’re supposed to accept as just an alpha man protecting his woman. The cliffhanger will leave you questioning his motivations as much as Amy should’ve been doing for the entirety of the novel.
What does work for Escaping Reality are the little crumbs we get of what happened to Amy’s family and why it happened. The mystery of her archaeologist father and the secrets her mother and brother were obviously hiding that led to their deaths are intriguing enough to keep readers around wanting the answers.
Ebook provided by NetGalley