No spoilers contained in this review - read at will!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers, Crooked Lane Books, for allowing me to read this advance copy in exchange for my honest review. And thank you to Cate Holahan for writing such an engrossing book.

Addictive and riveting, this is one book that will keep you on the edge of your seat, just reading "one more chapter" just to find out what is happening in one of the two storylines running through this book. This is a book within a book and it's so satisfying to read - especially if (like me) you consume books at such a pace that you HAD to buy a kindle as your "bookcase" has become a "book-room". I have been struggling for an apt word to use to describe the book... the best I could come up with was "juicy". It is something that you can really sink your teeth into, it leaves you feeling satisfied, and definitely makes you want more.

The characters were all so well written. Perhaps a bit stereotypical in places (wonderfully British Trevor - I'm looking at you!), but I felt that that added to the charm of the book. I didn't need to spend too much time and energy working out each of the characters, and their motivations. It left me the time and space to focus on the two female protagonists that Holahan had decided to centre her book on.

The story line is very engrossing. And because Holahan decided to use the method of alternating chapters for each of the main storylines, it meant that it was very hard to put down because you finished a chapter and wanted to quickly check on Liza (protagonist 1) or Beth (protagonist 2). Sometimes when a book is written in that format it becomes hard to follow or engross in either plot, but this worked perfectly and I connected with each one from the very start until the very end. I couldn't put the book down and devoured it in one sitting.

I will say that I did manage to figure out what was going on quite a while before the "big reveal" but to be honest, there was so so much going on in this book that it didn't matter that I had "solved the case" there were still plenty of twists and turns. And knowing what happened earlier than the author intended didn't tell me how it would be resolved - which was one of the key things I wanted to know! And was absolutely brilliant! I honestly couldn't see a way out but the ending was really excellent.

So, like I said thoroughly enjoyable, ridiculously exciting, and very very moreish!

As requested, I will hold off on publishing this review across the normal platforms (goodreads, Amazon) / my blog (www.judgingyou.co.uk) until the month of release.

5 stars. Five big stars, I loooooved this book. It hooked me instantly and never let go. Liza is an author struggling to get pregnant. She is writing a book about a woman named Beth who catches her husband cheating on her. In this book, you get to read chapters of Liza's book as well. I loved that, but wouldn't have if Beth's story wasn't equally as intriguing. I am 100% going to be recommending this book to every reader I know!!

An interesting concept: Liza is a novelist dealing with an attack of writers block and a distant husband. Her chapters are intercepted with those of Beth, the character in her novel, who is also having issues with her unfaithful husband. The lives of the two women become more complicated as the novel goes on until the final "reveal"....a twist I have to say, I was not expecting.

Its a very unusual premise and works well as Holohan doesn't confuse the reader....you know exactly whose narrative you are following. I found this a promising novel, if a bit predictable in parts, and although it was a bit slow, especially in Liza's story, I enjoyed it

Awesome book. Hope to see more of this author. Do you another book in the works? I hope so.

Enjoyed this book, twisty turn plot, kept you guessing till the very end and beyond!

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I love the idea of characters in a book taking on lives of their own. Do they really exist, or are they merely the product of an author's fertile imagination? This one will make you ponder. The parallels are striking. Might it be a variation on the theme of the truth, or is it all just out-and-out fiction?

A great many of us have complained loud and long about what seemed to be a lifetime of books with "Girl" in the title. Now we seem to have segued into the era of the great personal pronoun, most particularly titles containing "He" or "She". Although that doesn't automatically discount a book, it does give one cause to sigh.

<b>Wanted: Books With Original Titles!</b>

Such a high intensity gripping read , in all honesty I could not put this cleverly gripping novel down it was read in one sitting.
A five star read which comes very highly recommended.

Lies She Told starts out like a typical romantic suspense novel but by the end I was hooked because the plot was intriguing and I cared about the characters.
Liza is a writer married to a busy husband who is stressed out because his law partner is missing. To make matters worse, Liza is on an experimental treatment for infertility. As she writes her new book and tries to manage her life with her husband. Liza begins to learn that nothing is as it seems.
The plot, at it's base, is a typical women's novel: woman has problems with her marriage escapes to some other house that become available to her and there she is able to figure herself out. The story quickly escalates and breaks from the stereotypical story as Liza has to come to gripes with her past, present and her future. The novel is layered with the chapter the main character is writing. At first it seems like a neat device to break up the story and get the reader invested, but these chapter become important as the plot moves along as the character realizes she is blurring the line between fact and fiction.
I have one huge issue with this book and it's why I only gave it four stars: I ends too soon. while there is a resolution to the plot, it stops at the best part. I wanted to know more about Liza and about how her choices and life events would shape her psychologically. I wanted more.

Many thanks to the author and Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of this novel.
This book hooked me in from the first page. This intriguing story appears to be about a writer who’s struggeling with her wish to get pregnant, and her main character in the book she is writing, who only five weeks ago fave birth to a beautiful baby daughter.
Very cleverly and very well written, this story will keep you up late because you just can’t put the book down. And just when you think you know what will happen, the story takes another turn and it get even better.

What an interesting premise and well delivered storyline! I don't even know how to summarize the plot of this, other than to say it was riveting watching it unfold. The story is about an author, told in alternating chapters between her life and the life/plot of the book characters she is currently writing - and how they all intertwine. There are eerie similarities between her and the characters she writes about - and seeing it all come together was fascinating, creepy and suspenseful.

Oh my! I don't know that I have the words to describe this book. I like the twists & turns with the story as we get it from Liza's, an author trying to write another book since she hasn't had one since her first best seller perspective, & from the perspective of the character of Beth in her novel she's working on. You have to pay close attention to the top of each chapter so you know who's perspective you're getting but it is so worth it. Great concept for a thriller. Highly recommend!

Thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This was a very suspenseful novel, I and I enjoyed it very much. The main character, Liza Cole, is behind on her deadline to deliver her latest book. Lies She Told is written in chapters that alternate between Liza's real life and her book in progress. As the book goes on, the line between true life and fiction begins to blur.

Liza is living with her husband David, a lawyer. He is obsessed with the recent disappearance of his partner and best friend, Nick. Liza didn't care as much for Nick as David did, but she wants to be supportive. His obsession with finding Nick is distracting him from their goal of having a baby, and Liza is frustrated, as she is in the middle of an infertility drug trial. Liza has written one bestseller based on a murder after child abuse, and her other books have not sold as well. Liza says she writes her books from the world and the people around her, and she feels the pressure to write another bestseller.

Beth, the main character in Liza's book, is a young married mom with a young baby. She catches her husband having an affair, and the story describes what she does with that information and what happens to her, her husband, and the woman with whom he's having an affair. Beth starts to inhabit Liza's thoughts, and Liza can hear her talking in her head as she's dealing with her real life problems.

The characters in this book were so well written. It was like reading two books in one, and both were excellent. The plot got a little confusing as the stories merged. The ending had quite a twist and was a surprise to me, although it felt a little contrived.

I highly recommend this book.

I got this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

It was a decent book. I figured out from the beginning that she was projecting her story onto her character. I liked the twist 3/4 of the way thru but I found it predictable (in the other story line).

This was an interesting book. I enjoyed the storyline and the way the author jumped back and forth between her personal life and the life of a character in a book she is writing. She intertwined them beautifully. Personally, I did not like the twist at the end - it felt contrived to me - but I am sure many others will appreciate her use of disassociation as a means of explanation. You'll have to read it to understand what I mean!

One of my favorite new books from a new-to-me author. I love a strong female character and this one has two. I wasn't sure about the alternating viewpoints (between the main character and her fictional main character) but at the end of every chapter I looked forward to seeing how the parallel storyline would move forward. Really enjoyed this one and will be looking for more from this author.

A very light, beach read. The story was ok, if a bit predictable.

This book is fantastic. You don't know what's reality and what Liz is writing as her fiction story - a great thriller.

This book entwined the main character of the book and the main character of the book she is writing. It is no surprise in how it ends but you can get lost in all the lies along with the main character.

A very well written book with a great plot that has many twists and turns to keep the reading guessing.