ellieb_reads 's review for:

First Lie Wins by Ashley Elston

3.5

mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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For a debut thriller (author has previously written YA), I think this is pretty solid. Morally gray main character who goes by many names was an interesting antihero, and I enjoyed the flashbacks to other aliases and her origin story. This was fast-paced and kept me engaged start to finish. Falls short of 4 stars because the big reveal didn’t have the payoff I expected after 250 pages of cat-and-mouse games.