SOCIETY OF LIES
Lauren Ling Brown
If you gave me ten dollars to reread this book I would give you ten reasons I would pass. I didn’t have a good reading experience with SOCIETY OF LIES and my intuition tells me you won’t either.
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SOCIETY OF LIES stars sisters Maya and Naomi. Maya is set to attend her reunion at the same time her sister, Naomi, is set to graduate. When Naomi turns up dead Maya is the first to suspect there may be more to the story than detectives are telling her. She knows her sister better than anyone and she takes it upon herself to investigate Naomi’s mysterious death.
What she finds out is more than she ever expected.
SOCIETY OF LIES is about the dark sides of private institutions and the lengths people will go to fit in even if it means being anyone other than yourself.
If I gave you a summary with spoilers you would be able to spot a big hole in the plot. A few pages in, and I already had to suspend disbelief. That is not good. From that point on, every exclamation point turned weary and appeared to be a question mark. Instead of questioning the characters’ motives, I mentally fact-checked every section of dialogue, every passage of exposition, basically EVERYTHING.
SOCIETY OF LIES is the most confusing book I’ve read in a long time. There are past and present timelines where the same characters appear and interact with each other. If you’re not paying special attention to dates and pov, you can easily lose track of your timeline and the focus. There is a mystery in both, so good luck keeping the clues straight.
I took a lot of notes and was still confused which is no fun at all. And the most unsatisfying part is the novel you’re getting behind all the confusion, hardly seems worth it. This is my first time reading Lauren Ling Brown and I was overall frustrated with my reading experience and found no gold within those hills to keep me coming back.
Thanks to Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine | Bantam for the advanced copy!
SOCIETY OF LIES…⭐⭐
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