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.

Lies She Told is a character driven, intense psychological thriller, creatively told from two different perspectives. The main character is a fiction author and the chapters alternate between the character’s real life and the character in her novel. After a while reality starts to blur with fiction and you end up with some nice twists. Highly recommended.

This novel goes back and forth between a novel being created, and the story of what is going on in the author's life - and as the story continues, the two paths grow together. I can't recall any other work that uses this technique, although I imagine it's been done before. Regardless, it is done extremely well here. It is well written and certainly pulled me along wanting to know what was going to happen next in both of the stories - and both stories were resolved in ways that totally made sense to me. It wasn't just a thriller with a gimmick, but two thrillers that pull the reader along with an ever accelerating rush to find out what is going to happen next. Isn't that exactly what thrillers are supposed to do? Well, this one surely succeeds. I will definitely be watching for more from this author.

Probably the best summer beach book I've read in this year's crop. Liza, a novelist, correlates her story to her own life and disintegrating marriage. There's just enough difference to cover the things she perhaps feels most tenable in her own life.

Rather than give away too much of the twists and turns of her plot I'll just say this is not one to be missed. The author writes from the heart and does it well. Don't miss out on this one!