Lie Still by Julia Heaberlin
When Emily Page and her husband move from Manhattan to the
wealthy enclave of Clairmont, Texas, she hopes she can finally escape her
haunted past—and outrun the nameless stalker who has been taunting her for
years. Pregnant with her first child, Emily just wants to start over. But as
she is drawn into a nest of secretive Texas women—and into the unnerving
company of their queen, Caroline Warwick—Emily finds that acceptance is a very
dangerous game.
It isn’t long before Caroline mysteriously disappears and
Emily is facing a rash of anonymous threats. Are they linked to the missing
Caroline? Or to Emily’s terrifying encounter in college, years earlier? As the
dark truth about Caroline emerges, Emily realizes that some secrets are
impossible to hide—and that whoever came for Caroline is now coming for her.
My Review:
The premise of this book sounded really good, however the
follow through was not as good as I had hoped.
I did enjoy the first part of this story it was a good build
up to an intriguing mystery however the end was so rushed that it kind of
ruined it. This group of women was a caricature
of Texas/southern women, and their little group with a bowl of secrets was
laughable especially when it was Emily’s first time getting together with these
women, if the queen bee of this little group was blackmailing these other
women, why would you include the new Chief of Police’s wife?
There were so many secrets and storylines going on here and
I could kind of see what the author was trying for but it didn’t work for me.
The big reveal at the end had me so confused and made me think I had missed a
page because it was so rushed and very unsatisfactorily for my taste it was
very anti-climatic for a book with so many story lines and secrets.
Overall I was disappointed in this…some have liked it more
than I did so I guess give it a try, I didn’t hate it, it just won’t be one that
I’ll tell people is a must read.
2 ½ Stars
I received this from Librarything Early Reviewer program for
a fair and honest review
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