This is the story of what happens when stupid people go on vacation.

Jan is a liar and miserable. She's also chained to a wall in total darkness. After meeting strangers on a vacation in 5 years in the past, Jan meets up with these same "friends' in Crete. What follows is an overwrought psychological drama with a fairly obvious plot.

The meat of the story is good but it just....wasn't there. It was missing the suspense that makes psychological thrillers so good.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Lies That Bind Us was a quick read for me. I love books with an unreliable narrator and this one was really well-done. I found myself constantly trying to figure out how it would end and could not put it down. I finished the book within a day. It was also very obvious that the book was well-researched, which I really appreciate.

The only criticism I have is that some of the supporting characters choices didn’t always make sense to me. At times, I couldn’t understand why they did certain things. Overall, I would recommend this book.

Book moved too slowly for me. I read rather quickly and after 1.5 hrs I found myself wondering where the plot was going. I skipped to the end just to read the conclusion. I found the main character boring, simply boring. My time is precious and this book just didin't capture my attention long enough to spend the time reading the story.

It’s supposed to be a getaway, a way to remember simple times for Jan. A trip to Crete to reunite with friends she met there five years ago is just what she needs to escape her trouble present. Jan has secrets, but then again, so do her friends. Maybe that’s why she’s now handcuffed to a wall in a pitch black room. She has no memory of how she came to be there, or who would have done this to her. And the bigger question is why? Or does Jan already know? As Jan’s story is peeled back in layers, like an onion, readers will begin to piece together the elaborate puzzle that left Jan chained in that cellar