The Lying Club is a domestic/academia slow burn twisty thriller that could be compared to Big Little Lies. Rich families, private school, dark event happens and it all unfolds.

Ooh, this was a twisty one! I love how many versions of the same story are being told at the same time and I loved the very end, possible sequel? I very much enjoyed this read and I am looking forward to reading more of Annie Ward's books in the future.

The Lying Club is a slow-burning thriller set at an elite private school. Two bodies are found on campus, and what happened makes for a captivating mystery.

The Lying Club is told using alternating points of views and timelines. The viewpoints are from three women, Natalie, Brooke, and Asha. Natalie is the school’s office assistant. Brooke and Asha are mothers of teen girls at the school. All three women are a mess, but in different ways.

A mystery thriller full of drama, secrets, and lies. The Lying Club has unreliable and unlikable narrators, and complicated relationships. This novel kept me turning the pages to find out what really happened at the school.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This one was just not for me. I loved Annie Wards last book and I was hoping for a different outcome, but it just was a slow read and I could not do it.

This was a decent thriller. It was definitely a worthwhile read. Interesting characters, good plot. And it kept me engaged!

This was a twisty thriller that follows three women and the one man they want and need. But soon things get dark and twisty when things start to unravel abasing the backdrop of the wealthy and how far and what their money can buy.

3.75 stars

This book was a wild story with a series of unexpected twists at the end. I knew the one character was probably going to turn out to be a creep, but I didn’t have any idea exactly how awful he was and to what extent he was manipulating and preying on other people. All of the perspectives and stories wove together nicely by the end, and I was satisfied with the justice/revenge that was achieved. Anyway, I enjoyed the book, and I can definitely understand the comparisons to Big Little Lies.

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into this book. I loved the description and thought that the premise was good, but I wasn't able to finish this book.

While there were a lot of lies being told in this book, it didn’t seem like there was a lying club. The story was about the parents, students and staff at an elite school - Falcon Academy where rich and entitled parents would do whatever it took to advance the prospects of their rich and entitled children while the school appeared to be oblivious. Reputation is everything!

I could not relate to these rich and entitled characters. The parents were almost worse than the children. The children were bratty and secretive and indulged in dangerous behaviour. The staff members that the story focussed mainly on were Coach Nick Maguire who liked to look at pictures of naked teens and Natalie Bellman, the naive young receptionist. Natalie was probably the only potentially likeable character in the book but she spoiled it by overdoing the uppers and downers, drugs she purloined from various sources. She also made breathtakingly stupid decisions.

So that’s the setup and clearly it is a recipe for disaster. So while we are waiting for the inevitable train wreck we have to slog through a lot of detail, much of it I didn’t think was necessary. It slowed the pace of the story down. I felt the book could have been shorter and would have crisper for it.

Rich mothers in a small Colorado community pull a young school secretary into their exclusive world to uncover the crimes of a beloved personal trainer at an exclusive school who is drugging female athletes to photograph them. Money, drugs, porn, affairs, and secrets--Annie Ward's novel has it all. The Lying Club is a great beach, airplane, or weekend read--and even a better book to discuss with friends.

Very good read highly recommended. I totally recommend this book to friends and family it does not disappoint. Hope to read more books by this author in the near future.

Okay okay okay, time to pull out the wine, pop some popcorn, cuddle up in your coziest blanket, and get ready to read kind of a crazy story.

The novel opens up when Natalie, a 25 year old office assistant, wakes up in her car wondering what on earth happened. She enters the school she works at only to find a pool of blood.

The mystery of this book slowly builds and revolves around several women who might have a secret to keep. But what is that secret exactly?

You'll have to read to find out.

The Lying Club was definitely not wrong in it's marketing when using a quote comparing it to Big Little Lies because there were quite a few similarities in the style of writing, how the novel was set up, and in the characters.

This book was one of those mysteries where you start out by knowing that a crime was committed and who the primary suspect of said crime is. But you have to read the story, told in flashbacks and via the current timeline of the story which is all police interviews with the suspect. As you read the story you start to figure out who the key players are, who the rest of the suspects are, and how and why said crime happened.

This was a pretty decently written mystery in the way that you could pick up elements of how it would end (I absolutely loathe it when the reveal comes out of nowhere) but not all of the pieces were revealed until the day of the actual crime.

However, there was nothing surprising here. Of course the cops seemed to want to pin it on the only poor woman in the bunch. Of course the rich moms were so horrible they were practically all caricatures and lots of their problems would have been solved if they'd just stopped jumping to conclusions and actually talking to their frenemies and partners. Of course the bad guy was so bad that even on his deathbed he was an ass.

It was just all too predictable though entertaining enough that I read it fairly quickly.

I LOVED Annie Ward's book Beautiful Bad, I was excited to hear she had this one out. It fell flat for me. The Characters were not likeable and I didn't have the urge to BINGE the book, I had to force myself to get to the end. I wanted to love it, but it didn't work for me!

The Lying Club is a heckin social tangle in the BEST way! You will love hate some of the characters and will stay up way past your bedtime for this wild ride. Will be purchasing for the library's collection.

4.5 stars for this one! I found myself fully immersed from the start. I love a good bitchy real housewives/rich people vibe but I loved more that it actually showed some depth to these bitchy housewives. I do have to agree with some other reviewers that the title of the book didn't really play a part until the very end when things come together, but I loved the premise of the story. And I was really happy with the ending. Without giving too much away, I got bad vibes with a character at the beginning and love when things go my way! I found myself looking forward to what came next and really happy with this book overall!

When the blurb said: for fans of Big Little Lies....I agree. This would make a great series. Three women from three different walks of life have the private, elite high school in the mountains in common. Two are mothers and one is the school's secretary. All are somehow involved in the scandal: teenagers partying and sharing explicit photos. Who's to blame and how can they be stopped? Quick read. Recommened.

The Lying Club is a well-crafted, atmospheric academic murder mystery with excellent characters. Set at an elite private school in the Colorado mountains, three women with secrets are connected by the handsome assistant athletic director at the school. Natalie, the office assistant who dreams of having a luxe life is in love with him. Brooke, the heiress who cheats has a daughter on his team. And Asha, the overprotective mom who suspects her husband is having an affair also has a daughter on the team who is best friends with Brooke's daughter. It all comes crashing to a head when two bodies are carried out of the school one morning. This is a story filled with secrets, jealous, lies and affluence. There are plenty of twists that will keep readers glued to their seats. Highly recommended!!

This is a revenge murder story set at an elite private school and it hooked me immediately. The book started off with a death in the school’s gymnasium and we find out why some people could be involved in the murder. It was easy to get caught up with the lives of the privilege children and their parents and all of their secrets, lies, and backstabbing. The book reminded me of both Big Little Lies and Good Girls and this was as entertaining and fun.

Thank you to NetGallery and to Harlequin Trade Publishing for giving me a copy for my honest review.

Fun and fast read. Wasn’t what I was expecting, but I loved the ending and how the women banded together to take care of each other