This was an interesting story. The mc was pretty terrible and I didn't really connect with any of the characters. it had some creepy tones to it which I enjoyed but overall I was hoping for more. The ending was what I expected.

This was a compelling well written story. I wish I had more sympathy for the narrator, but perhaps that was the point. It was well done and cleverly conceived. It was also quite creepy.

The main story is kind of interesting. I feel like there is a twist coming at the end that might garner this one more star, but the narrator rambles a lot. She reminisces about her late husband a lot. She reminisces about how close she used to be with Marnie a lot. She hates on Charles a lot. There's a lot of extra. And it's all just a bit mundane. Even her killing of Charles didn't feel like a particularly exciting part of the story. 
I DNF'd a little over halfway through.

I really enjoyed this book. The main character was terrible but she was meant to be. You may never read another book with a group of such broken characters. It makes you like them though. There was one point toward the end of the book where I thought maybe I wasn’t going to finish as I realized Jane’s intentions towards an infant. I found the ending anti-climactic with a lot of unanswered questions but over all I enjoyed the book. 

Thanks to NetGalley & the publisher for the chance to read this book.

I kept having to put the book down and go WHAT... Jane's view on her relationships and the world threw me off the story. To be fair its a good story just not my favourite genre, which is also why I had a hard time loving this book.

An interesting departure from other works I've read by the author. While the ending wasn't shocking to me, the build up to it was excellently done and it was very difficult to put this down between reading sessions.

An absolutely riveting tale of friendship with a big dose of lies.

This is the story of two forever best friends- and well you ALWAYS tell the truth to your bestie...that's the rule-or is it?

Marnie and Jane have been together for ever. Marnie wants Jane's important opinion of her wonderful husband. And so like any good friend, Jane tells a lie. Actually that's lie number one...

"Seven Lies" takes us down the rabbit hole of betrayal. Let's be best friends forever! (Says no one ever.)

Thank you to NetGalley, Viking and the author, Ms. Elizabeth Kay, for the opportunity to read this Advanced Readers Copy of "Seven Lies". The opinions expressed in this review are mine alone.

LOVED this book!!! Fantastic twists right to the end! 

I like the authors creative writing style and I found it well-developed.

Seven Lies by Elizabeth Kay is a chilling story of friendship that I will not soon forget. Jane, as the narrator, talks directly to the reader, sometimes accurately, sometimes not so accurately, hence the title of the book. This leaves the reader feeling, at times, like a helpless observer. Jane and Marnie had been friends since childhood. When adulthood came, their close circle began to include love interests for both of the women. When Marnie fell in love and married, it was important to her that Jane like her new husband. Jane reassured her that she was happy for her and that she liked her spouse. That was lie number one. Six to go and you will need to read this novel to find out about the other lies. With each lie revealed, the tension intensifies and the reader cannot imagine what will come next. Highly recommended. Seven Lies was quite a ride and I look forward to reading more from Elizabeth Kay. Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada and NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I  received this book free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I’m not sure what I was expecting from this book but I was expecting more. This was an easy read but I didn’t find it very entertaining. Nothing really made me want to keep going besides that I usually finish a book even if I don’t like it. It just wasn’t thriller enough for me.

3.5 stars

I liked the writing style - I was intrigued throughout and found similarities to my own writing style. That was neat. Jane had a very interesting stream of consciousness - I liked her attention to detail, but I also found myself feeling confused at times because of it. The writing jumped around quite a bit between past and present/possibly future(?). The ending came quite quickly too that it seemed rather anticlimactic. I was left with many questions.

Either way, it was an entertaining read and Elizabeth Kay did a great job creating these characters with their rounded, complicated relationships. I'll be looking for more of her work!

Thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy. Sorry I didn't finish it until AFTER it was released. 😅

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review. I requested this book based solely on it's synopsis, as it sounded like something I"d really enjoy. I think this book was a little too much of a slow burn for me, which sometimes works for thrillers, but it didn't really vibe with me through this one. 

Jane and Marnine have been attached at the hip for as long as they can remember. But when happens when they grow up and fall in love, but have secrets to keep? And how many lies will be told? 

It was long-winded and there wasn't much of a build up, leaving me with nothing to keep my interest and intrigue. I didn't overly connect with the characters or find many qualities I enjoyed. This was a quick thriller, but definitely not the best I've read in a while. Maybe pick this up for a quick in between read, but don't rush to it.

I'd like to thank the publisher via NetGalley for this copy for an honest review. 

I was drawn to this book from the beginning. The ongoing suspense kept me drawn to the story to find out what was going to happen on the next page, what the next lie was going to be. I was thoroughly creeped out by Jane throughout the whole book, the the ending left me feeling unsettled, as though there was something else unsavory that was going to happen. 

This was a good, suspenseful, quick read.

I was intrigued by the description of this book. It somewhat reminded me of You Are Not Alone with a similar storyline of friendship gone wrong. 

This book did keep me interested in what was going to happen, but I feel like there were a few misses in the plot and telling of the story. There seemed to be a focus on Jane’s coworkers and one in particular, and then this amounted to nothing. Also, there seemed to be a big reveal about why the journalist was so invested in the story of the two friends and then she was never looped back into the story. 

I was surprised by the twist of who she was talking to when revealed at the end of the book and was somewhat satisfied with the ending. I think I found it tough to relate to any of the characters and this made me read it through a more distanced lens.

Many thanks to NetGalley, Elizabeth Kay, and Penguin Random House Canada for an ARC in exchange for an honest book review of Seven Lies. My thoughts and opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.

Here we are with another book about liars. This is an extremely common theme that I have ranted about before. Don’t worry I’m not going to rant now. I just wish that we didn’t always have to deal with liars. Yes, I know that is inherently a problem when you are dealing with bad people. They tend to lie. So, ya, I’m starting to go down the rabbit hole. 

What I liked and very much appreciated with this book is that the narrator is reliable. I was a little concerned that I was going to get to the end of the book and find out I had been lied to the whole time. It’s happened before. Which is why I was pleasantly surprised that this wasn’t the case.

This is a story about two best friends. Marnie and Jane. They met in middle school and have been inseparable since. Sharing secrets, sharing an apartment, their lives were intertwined. Then Marnie met Charles. And everything changed. Marnie moves out and all of a sudden Jane finds herself on the outside looking in. Not only does she feel like she is losing Marnie, she does not like Charles. But Marnie is in love and when she asks Jane if she likes Charles, Jane says she does. That is lie number one. 

There are six more to go, but Jane believes that if she didn’t tell that first lie, maybe Charles would still be alive. This was a really good story. Jane, as a narrator, has vowed to tell the whole truth, just this once, to get everything off of her chest. Each chapter is another lie that Jane tells and is another step in the solution of how Charles died. The story has some really good elements and I was swept away. The ending is unexpected. 

The friendship seems so sweet in the beginning but by the end, you definitely get Single White Female vibes. Jane’s descent is slow and I felt for her because she almost had a shot at a happy life. How different her life would have been if it had worked out. You wonder about Marnie who seems oblivious to the cracks in Jane. I was also curious how Marnie never noticed the tension between Jane and Charles. I would have loved to have read the same story through Marnie’s perspective. 

Even though you know Charles dies, there is still lots of story to be told. This is a great thriller and a really enjoyable read.

Seven lies that will rip their friendship apart !!I started reading this book and was instantly hooked , it’s twisted and entertaining, and I especially liked the narrative. 
Throughout the whole book she’s talking to me or so I thought it was me, until she wasn’t and I was like wtf!!! that’s when the story really fell apart for me. 
I hold such high expectations for endings or how a book is wrapped up and find I get let down easy and that’s exactly what happened with this one.
Have you read this? What are your thoughts

Seven Lies is a different slant on the domestic thriller. 
Thank you to Netgalley and Penguin Random House Canada for my eARC in exchange for an honest review.
Jane and Marnie have been best friends since grade school. As adults they both suffer tragedies in their personal lives and media scandal threatens an already off-kilter friendship.
The action takes awhile to get going in this one. The pacing and slightly off storytelling style didn't capture my attention until nearly halfway through. It felt longer than it needed to be, yet did go toward building a detailed, unreliable character study. 
The ending was quite worth it, though; some shocking moments in here!
Released on June 16, 2020.

The Seven Lies begins with Jane’s first lie. Jane and Marnie have been friends ever since they met as young girls at school. Even though the two girls have different temperaments they stay friends all through school and beyond. Marnie and Jane meet every Friday night for dinner at Marnie’s flat. Now that Marnie has a boyfriend named Charles he has becomes part of the weekly dinner. Sometimes Jane brings the current man she has been seeing but no man has yet to measure up to Jonathan who was her first and only true love. Marnie asks Jane  one Friday evening if Jane thinks Marnie and Charles make a good couple. Despite the fact Jane finds Charles repellent Jane lies and says Marnie and Charles make a good couple.
The web of deceit Jane is weaving is compounded by the tragedy that follows. Since Seven Lies is a story told in layers a too detailed description would spoil the narrative. 
I liked Seven Lies. I didn’t feel like there was any huge surprises. The suspense built nicely. I do like thrillers that have a plausible twist at the end of the story. I thought Seven Lies ended perhaps a bit too neatly. 
I love the cover of the Canadian edition. 
Seven Lies is easy to read. Although I was a bit disappointed with the ending I thought it was a well written first novel. Would gladly read Elizabeth Kay’s next novel. 
Thank you to Penguin Random House Canada and Netgalley for the advanced ebook.

This was very entertaing with lots of twists and turns. I really enjoyed the character development.  It was a great thriller and did a good of the " how well you do know your friends/ how far would you go for what you want. I couldn't put this novel done, it was so good.

Seven Lies
By Elizabeth Kay

This book was from NetGalley. I am reviewing it too late, as it is out for purchase now. I saw it in Coscto the other day, and it is in Chapters and on Amazon. I didn’t love this book, but it was certainly compelling, and it has stayed with me. I think about it sometimes!

It’s about a friendship gone badly wrong. Jane and Marnie were best friends all their life, as children, until they grow up and fall in love with others. There are so many ways that this story could have unfolded differently, and you will likely keep thinking, as I did, if only... If only.

Jane tells seven lies throughout the novel. The first one is she tells Marnie, when Marnie asks, that she thinks Marnie’s husband is great. Yes, she says, I like him. Yes, you are right for each other, Jane said, when Marnie is not even sure herself.  Jane thinks that one lie can’t hurt, and sometimes the truth hurts even more, right. 

But one lie leads on. It has to, to protect itself. 

This book is not a light summer romantic read. It’s a psychological thriller, about love, friendship and jealousy. The writing is outstanding, and the story is cleverly plotted, and as a reader, I kind of kept wanting to flip ahead, because I was so worried about what Jane would do next. 

Spoiler - the book is told from Jane’s point of view, and she is a psychopath. She thinks that what she has done is justified, and even though I found her creepy, also kind of engaging, and empowering, as all the characters were, since they were all very real. But its also heartbreaking. You will be thinking about what could have happened, instead of what did happen.