I always enjoy Tarryn Fisher and this might just be my favorite of hers so far.
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I genuinely wasn't expecting it to turn into a escape-from-a-cult-book. Thoroughly enjoyable twist. Definitely a favorite read of the year.

This was suspenseful read! Just goes to show...you can never run from the past. But the present and future are just as risky.

This was an interesting read! I found I enjoyed the story and found myself liking the flashback POV from the time at the cult. I thought the plot was very interesting and kept me hooked.

I didn’t love this one as much as I gave her other books. It wasn’t a page turner and the first half of the book really dragged. It just missed the mark for me.

Thank you, NetGalley, for an e-ARC of An Honest Lie by Tarryn Fisher.
An Honest Lie is a book that catches the reader from the beginning and keeps you turning pages. This book is written in alternating timelines that seamlessly moves between past and present. A great thriller with a strong female character!

An Honest Lie is a phenomenal thriller from start to finish. Filled to the brim with twists and a captivating plot, this one is sure to keep readers hooked. The characters are well-developed. The story is incredibly fast-paced. This is one not to be missed! Highly recommended! Be sure to check out An Honest Lie asap.

I enjoyed this story more than I thought I would!! The plot was super interesting based on Rainy, the main characters, past and present life intertwining. Rainey’s experience growing up in a cult was terrifying as it impacted her daily life in the present. As the story developed it was a little predictable, but overall, a fast paced mystery/ thriller. The only people I didn’t care for were Rainey’s adult group of friends- but I think that was the point :) Thanks to the publisher for the gifted e-copy! Can’t wait to read more by Tarryn!

“Adults lied all the time: they told you things were fine when they weren’t; and they acted like they themselves were find when they weren’t.”
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Rainy lives in Washington with her boyfriend after recently moving there from NYC. She’s an artist who can work anywhere and after feeling antsy in the big city, the move is a welcome change. The only problem is that her boyfriend really wants Rainy to bond with the other women in their friend group, but she’s more of a loaner after the childhood she had. When the clique practically forces Rainy to go on a girl’s weekend to Vegas, it throws Rainy back in time to her past and forces her to confront her demons.
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Tarryn can be hit or miss for me, but this one I was obsessed from the beginning. I really loved the back and forth flashbacks and reading about cults is always so interesting to me. This was a strong 4⭐️ even if the ending wasn’t quite what I wanted.

CW: cult, drugging, sexual assault, child trafficking, child assault, starvation, violence, blood, murder, kidnapping, cheating, drug use, alcohol, death, death of a parent

Great book! Started off as a slow burn and quickly catches your attention when things don’t seem to add up like you expect. Told in past and present tense you get pieces to put things together as the story develops. Full of twists and turns that keep you guessing what comes next, wondering who your true friends are and who you can really trust.

I received a complimentary copy of this book. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own. Thank you NetGalley, Tarryn Fisher and Harlequin Books S.A. Graydon Housefor hearing my honest review. Looking forward to reading more with you
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I have loved every Tarryn Fisher book I have read, this was a miss for me, didn't love it and couldn't follow it enough to want to stick with it. This was a no thank you for me.

I can spend HOURS deep diving into information about cults or devouring the latest documentary. Never have I ever read a fiction novel about cults and let me tell you, TARRYN DOESN'T DISAPPOINT.

Dual timelines dive into our main character - Rainy - on The Compound as a young girl and in present time, grappling with life after leaving.

An Honest Lie is the perfect fall read!

Wow, this was absolutely amazing!!! It was twisty and had some plot things I never saw coming. And it was scary and all around a really good story.

Rainey is feeling pressured to make nice with her new neighbors on Tiger Mountain, so she agrees to go on a girls' trip to Vegas. The trip quickly turns into a disaster, as Braithe is kidnapped and Rainey's past and present are on a collision course.

This novel was a little bit out there, but I do love a good cult novel, so that part really hooked me. It seemed somewhat unbelievable at parts, and the current timeline was definitely less exciting than the background and past story. I read this one pretty quickly because I really needed to see what happened at the end!

Girls trip to Vegas, what could possibly go wrong? Tarryn Fisher had me on the edge of my seat from the very first line and I couldn’t stop reading until I finished. This chilling tale follows Rainy as her past, one that she is trying to forget, catches up with her in a sequence of events that will stay with you long after you read the last page. This is my new favorite thriller from Tarryn. She is the queen of dark and twisty and in An Honest Lie, she takes it to a whole new level!

Honestly, this one didn't do it for me. I felt like the story was disjointed and that there was a lot of detail given for things that didn't really matter in the end. I also did not feel any connection at all with the characters, which is very disappointing. All in all, I'd rate this three stars.

Thank you NetGalley for providing this book for an honest review. Tarryn Fisher is a great author. I have fully enjoyed all of her books. I don't usually like books that split from the past to the present but this book was done beautifully. I couldn't wait to read both. It was exciting to learn about the trauma of her past as well as facing the future. This is a great read!!

Couldn't really stand it. i thought this was a subpar thriller with not that much intrigue. Not sure if Tarryn Fisher is my cup of tea. Anything else, not many thoughts.

Thank you to Netgalley and Graydon House for a gifted copy. I really liked this book! It was super easy to read, it grabbed me right away, and the main character was relatable.

An Honest Lie centers around Rainy, a thirty-something artist transplant from New York to Washington state. She is trying to integrate into a friend group at the urging of her boyfriend, but she has anxiety issues and secrets from her past that she wants to keep to herself. She is convinced to go on a Vegas trip with the girls and things get weird. In an effort to distance herself from the catty girl group, she heads out to confront her past, taking readers on a thrilling journey that will keep you page-turning.

This was an eerie mystery with thrilling aspects in the latter third of the book. There were hateful characters and ones you couldn't trust. I think the story wrapped up rather quickly at the end and it left some details to the imagination. This didn't bother me, as they weren't central to the plot. Overall, I really enjoyed this book and would recommend.

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Every since I read Tarryn Fisher’s The Wives, I have expected each of her books to have some sort of major twist that completely changes my perspective. While that did not happen with her novel The Wrong Family, nor did it occur with her latest book An Honest Lie, this story still has enough cringy drama and explosive moments to keep you turning the pages well into the night.

Perhaps the greatest twist associated with An Honest Lie is that it ended up being nothing like what I expected based upon its synopsis. This novel quickly reveals itself to have two storylines - one set in the present and one set in the past - the latter involving a downright creepy cult. The parts of the book that take place in the present - those mentioned in the book’s summary of a girls’ trip to Vegas - actually take up very little space in this novel that mostly reflects on a commune isolated in the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas where a mother relocates with her teenage daughter and finds she has enrolled them in a cult. How this cult ties into main character Rainy’s present day storyline is the focus of this dark and gritty novel about how the past we thought we left behind can truly come back to haunt us.

If you’ve read a Tarryn Fisher novel before, you know that her books shine a spotlight on the shadowy corners of life, taking seemingly ordinary people and exposing their deepest secrets and shameful stories. An Honest Lie combines two topics that have been receiving a bit of attention in publishing lately - girls’ trips & cults - and creates a story that is nothing if not entertaining. While some parts of the novel did move rather slowly and the past and present didn’t align in a way that was entirely satisfying, I still enjoyed the time I spent reading this book and can wholeheartedly recommend it to fans of the genre or author.

Sigh. Im feeling like new Tarryn Fisher books are not for me. The plot was just.... awful and disjointed. It didn't sit right at all. It felt like a lot of actions were not true to the characters.

What Tarryn does nail is the actual writing! She has a beautiful way with words and describing thoughts and emotions.

I feel like Fisher's best works were her character driven stories of the past (like The Opportunist, etc.) I'm personally not digging the newer plot driven ones.