I wanted to love this one but the different perspectives made it had for me to get into. May translate better on audio so I ay try that in the future just to see if its more enjoyable for me that way.

I enjoyed the multiple POVs and dual timeline. I don’t really feel that it made much sense meshing the past and present drama the way it did though

So good. Lucinda is one of my favorite authors and this one is just as good as all the others. I love her writing style and the cover is great. Thank you so much for letting me read this in advance

Thanks to NetGalley for my ARC

I didn't like this one very much. There was just too much petty and/or over the top mean girl drama. I didn't care much for the characters.

I love every book this author writes! I’m always so conflicted but love every dark character she brings to life!

Felicia is a hard-working, single mother who gives back to the community as a suicide hotline dispatcher after the untimely suicide of her sister. One evening on the job, she gets a distressed call from a teenager girl who is distraught over the fact that a video is being passed around her high school after she was sexually assaulted by several of her classmates at a party -- and now she wants to end it all. Going against company ethics, Felicia takes down this girl's number and calls her after hours to deliver undying support and advice since she knows exactly what sort of pain this girl is enduring after being violently attacked by her son's father decades earlier.

After learning more and more about the girl, she begins to fear that perhaps her son might have known who did this brutal assault, for he was at that same party. After confronting Hunter, he's weird and standoffish, to a point that she even begins to speculate perhaps her son was more involved than she previously thought.

One of our Own is a tale of motherhood put to a test and those limits have been pushed. How far will she go to protect those she loves, and will she do what's morally right in the eyes of the law? You won’t be able to put this down.

A dual timeline thriller mystery – and a powerhouse of drama, with a twist that both doesn’t feel weird or unbelievable and yet somehow manages to stay totally unpredictable up until the time you reach it.

I don't usually like dual timeline stories, but I really enjoyed this one. Well-written story with great characters. Definitley recommend!

Thank you #netgalley and #thomasandmercer for the eARC.

I thought this book was a fair family drama. I felt that it delievered exactly what I expect. Shocking, fluff, but enough to keep me reading and engaged. I love Berry, and I will read her again and again.

What happens at summer camp doesn’t always stay at summer camp. Follow a group of girls into adulthood and watch their scary secret unfold and real havoc across all their lives.

Lucinda Berry could write out a receipt from Costco and I'd still read it. Such talent!!

If You Tell a Lie was not one of my favorites by Lucinda Berry however. I liked the dual timelines and everyone's point of view though I did get confused on whose point of view I was reading a few times and had to look back. Rich kids going to summer camp year after year and in their "senior" year at camp, things go awry and a tragedy occurs which affects so many people. I love books like this! This one felt a bit all over the place though and I wasn't thrilled with the ending. But I will never not read Lucinda Berry!

Finally, a book I didn't see the complete end twist! Wahoo!! That doesn't happen often.

A young girl brutally murdered in a small town watches as the town unravels trying to solve her murder. There are ghosts, there are false accusations, there are families torn apart.

Berry knows how to develop character create twists and keep you guessing. I will continue reading what she creates!

Lucinda is yet to write a book I haven’t rated lower than a four star. This one again is a great read. I loved the storyline I’m, always partial to a sex offender storyline! I enjoyed the flashback storyline and the present. There were a few little twists in there, and the larger one at the end was pretty good as well. My only mark down was that the flashback did get a little mucky at times and I got confused, but I listened to this on audio and I loved the use of different voices 👌🏽 I hate that I have to wait now for a new story from the author 😂🥲

Thank you so much for the ARC in return for a true and honest review, greatly appreciated.

This is a story of friendship, manipulation and murder.

When you have four friends that are together there a
is bound to be admiration but also jealously.
It’s hard to feel the same way for each friend in your group. There is always one that’s closer to you than the rest.

This is a story of one truly twisted mind and the lengths
She will go to get what she wants.

I'm going to be honest, I am very frustrated with this book. Personally, for me, for a thriller to hold much weight, it has to be somewhat rooted in reality. As a reader of this book, however, I felt like I had to suspend so much belief to make it be even plausible. For one, I felt like there were too many character points of views, especially with the dual timeline. There wasn't enough characterization to keep them apart, and it was certainly muddled in the beginning. Then there was the fact that none of the characters actually had any redeeming qualities about them. Sure, I don't always have to like every character I read, but dang, they were all just insufferable. It would have maybe been improved if we actually find out what happens to three out of the four main characters at the end, but we aren't even granted that! Overall, some people might find this book with the twists enjoyable, it just completely missed the mark for me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for an advanced reader copy of this book. All opinions within this review are my own.

Four friends attend a summer camp together every year. During their last year, a counselor is murdered and the events of that day cause the girls to no longer have contact with one another. Several years later they all receive mysterious notes and get together to figure out who sent them.

This book had so much potential! I e lmjoyed the multiple POVs and dual timelines. Unfortunately the motivation behind a lot of the actions of the girls didn’t make much sense to me, and the ending was way too abrupt. We are basically left hanging for what happens next to three of them, and I would have liked for their stories to have been wrapped up.

Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for the advanced copy in exchange for my honest review.

Thank you so much to NetGalley, Thomas and Mercer, and Lucinda Berry for allowing me to review this twisty thriller. This is a very quick and fun read that kept me guessing the entire time. I would have enjoyed a little different ending, but overall had a great time with this one. I enjoyed the multiple POV’s and timelines as well. I can’t wait to read more from this author. Thank you again for allowing me to review this thrilling book.

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If You Tell A Lie by Lucinda Berry
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Is it a surprise when I read a Lucinda Berry book that I rate it so highly? No, probably not. Because I am so predictable! What is surprising how unpredictable Berry’s work is and always has been. It’s mind blowing how I have read so many and yet I am still no closer to figuring her out as an author!

I love, not only the different POVs but also the dual timeline. It keeps you on your toes and gives you the task of trying to figure it all out. I find it absolutely fascinating! I always think I have managed to figure it out and I know exactly who the “guilty” party is, but Berry always proves me completely wrong.

Berry is such a captivating writer and always has me in these chokeholds when I am reading her books and one of these days I will eventually get it right!!

A fast paced twisty summer camp thriller told in dual timelines with different POV. Even though the book is written with multiple cliffhangers and twists to keep the reader engaged from one chapter to the next, it’s perhaps too twisty. By the time you finish and compile everything in the end, it appears a bit too incredulous.

Lucinda Berry is literally always a good time. Her books have so much thought and detail put into them and they have all been hits for me this far.

I would be open to trying another book by this author and would recommend most of them to others. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this advanced reader’s copy.

3.5 stars

Lucinda Berry’s writing is always really easy to read & the story grabs your attention right away, which I always appreciate in thrillers. These characters take friendship to a whoooole new level, & Blakely is a MESS. Some parts dragged on a bit with all the drama in the friend group, & the ending felt incomplete. In my opinion, this book doesn't stand out as much as some of her others, but I would still recommend it if you're looking for an easy, fast read.

Thank you to NetGalley & the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!