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A Familiar Stranger by A.R. Torre

4.0

Lillian is fed up with her cheating husband and mundane life. Writing obituaries for a local newspaper Lillian hears of a girl named Taylor’s death. When Lillian meets a stranger, David, she pretends her name is Taylor and takes on that persona of what she thinks Taylor is like. She begins an affair with this man and finds that being someone else is freeing. But living a double life isn’t all that fun as someone is following Lillian around - recording and posting videos of her and David on social media. And then one of them ends up dead.

This is a fast-paced, page turning thriller. Lillian has spent her life being a wife and mother and feels confined by this being her identity. This story portrays the struggles of one’s own identity and is as equally deep as shallow - showing the complexities of relationships and the power of greed to change everything.

What I will remember: facts of the day and social media posts guessing who dies.