Between the Lies - Review

Between the Lies   🌟🌟🌟

by Michelle Adams
Publication March 5 2019 by St Martin's Press

Anytime a book or a TV show resorts to a character contracting amnesia, it is automatically going to be hard to pull off as credible or interesting to me.  It has been done and overdone.  So from the beginning of this, I needed to be impressed with the rest of the story or the characterizations.  If you like the amnesia tactic, you'll likely enjoy this much more than I did.  

The characters themselves were all a bit of a mystery, which can be intriguing.  Here it is mainly because the main character and narrator Chloe has amnesia  and cannot remember even who her mother, father, and sister are.  So I had no idea who to trust or believe when she went to recuperate in their house.  Chloe was in a very serious car accident (hit her head of course) but can remember nothing about it.  It appears she has no friends or job as she cannot remember anyone else existing in her life.  Gradually she begins to suspect that her family is covering up or making up facts about the past.  I felt her frustration as the storyline progressed only as quickly as her memories returned.  There is one main mystery that I needed to see the answer to, and it turned out a little disappointing. Then the last chapter made so sense, partly because there seems to be a major misprint in my galley copy (I am out on a limb here).  

Overall the star value of 3 is mostly for the lies, secrets, and suspicions.  A point was deducted for the amnesia.