Lies: From the author of Netflix hit THE HOLIDAY, a gripping thriller guaranteed to keep you up all night

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I went into this book initially expecting it to be an “edge-of-your-seat” thriller and admittedly, the first couple chapters did pique my curiosity.

Now while the story slowed in the middle I started in on my predictions and while I was not spot on at the end I was rather close so by the time the story picked back up to give those last little twists and reveal I wasn’t overly shocked at the outcome. Gripping, unputdownable and packed with twists and turns from the first page to the very last, this stunning psychological thriller will make you question whether we can ever really trust the ones we love. Another thing that propelled me through this rather-thick-for-a-thriller book: the promise of a twist. Without iPads and cellphones and their various apps, this would just be a novel like others we have read before. She also reveals dark secrets about their marriage that lead Joe to believe that Ben poses a threat to all of them.These are pretty basic questions but in this novel issues are advanced through facebook postings, tweets, cellphone messaging and syncing. He's a high school teacher and is happy with his job and the fact that he's the primary caretaker of his son, due to his wife's more demanding job. Ben is obviously still aggravated and one thing leads to another with Joe pushing Ben but just as he should see if Ben is alright his son has an asthma attack so Joe leaves.

be read year-round, but there’s something undeniably perfect about cozying up with a great crime novel as the weather gets colder. Like most adults at the end of a long day — especially most teachers who have dealt with more than their fair share of shit — he’s largely oblivious to the world around him. The novel opens very benignly and quickly devolves to threats, physical confrontation, lies and importantly loss of a cell phone. Another major “pro” of LIES comes in the author’s incorporation of very timely elements - namely, social media - into the book’s central mystery. While driving home with his young son, Joe Lynch spies his wife’s Melisa’s car turn into a hotel parking lot.Thinking he shouldn’t interrupt Joe retreats to the parking garage to catch her on the way out but when he misses her leaving he confronts Ben instead. but it did truly make you think about social media and how much that has altered today society and our perceptions. Those are the overriding questions that haunt Joe Lynch as he unwittingly becomes embroiled in the mysterious disappearance of Ben Delaney, a man with whom he is merely acquainted when his four-year-old son, William, spots Mel’s car on the highway. He's an English teacher who gets to spend quality time with his son since he started working part-time. I'd say I was pretty invested in the story until about the halfway mark and for quite awhile after that I just didn't really care as much what happened to Joe.

Unfortunately, the execution didn’t really work for me – I felt that the plot was a bit all over the place (especially in the second half of the book), the characters were one-dimensional and written in a way that made all of them unlikable (with the exception of the kid William), and too many elements of the story just seemed implausible. There’s just no rhyme or reason for the way LIES wraps up; try as I might, I can only find one very tiny clue placed earlier in the story that would in any way allude to this shocking finale.Joe's life crumbled around him and proving his innocence seemed impossible unless he could prove Ben was alive. As William is engaging in one of his preferred pastimes — watching the vehicles jet by in the stream of busy London traffic — he spots his mom’s car. Whether you’re hoping to keep the spooky season Halloween vibes going a little bit longer or are ready to dive into a wintry, chilling crime story, this month’s selection of new releases has you covered. However the story slowed considerably and started to drag quite a bit in the middle, to the point that by the time I got to the “twist” at the end, it felt anti-climactic (though it probably didn’t help that I already figured out most of the ending already by then so the surprise element wasn’t there).

Much of LIES develops as we would expect it to: in the fallout of this troubling encounter, Joe discovers that everything he holds dearest in his life might be based on (true to the book’s title! When inside the hotel, Joe witnesses that Mel looks to be having an argument with one of her friends’ husband, Ben. Ben is a charming, highly successful, and wealthy businessman known for his ruthless competitiveness.Joe Lynch is just an ordinary happily-married man - until one split-second decision throws his life into crisis.