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127 days
Watch Her Lie
Christina Baker Kline, Anne Burt
Millions followed Isabel Hollister, the beloved influencer crafting a perfect life of vintage recipes and soft-spoken wisdom from her farmhouse kitchen. She promised women fulfillment on their own terms. Then, during a live stream, Isabel began to reveal a secret. The camera jolted. A scream rang out. The feed went dark. Isabel had vanished.
Lonely fan Ashley Goodwin, certain she witnessed a crime, rallies an online community of fans determined to uncover the truth. In New York City, cash-strapped journalist Megan Sinclair sees the disappearance as a chance to revive her career, even if it means returning to Crystal River, where she barely survived a notorious murder spree.
As Ash and Megan dig deeper, they uncover rival influencers, hidden relationships, suspicious deaths, and a woman whose carefully crafted online persona may have concealed a far more dangerous reality. The perfect life Isabel projected online was nothing more than a carefully constructed illusion.
Everyone thought they knew Isabel. Everyone was wrong.
Thank you to NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for an advanced copy of this title.
I enjoyed the unexpected twists in Watch Her Lie and how the story kept me entertained. The story alternates between Ash and Megan’s POVs in the present, and both characters were interesting and well developed. Still, something about them made me wary of trusting either one. I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was more to them than they were letting on.
This is the second book in a series, and although I haven’t read the first, I never felt lost. The authors did a good job providing enough background to make the story easy to follow as a standalone.
The investigation slowed down in the middle, and I wanted more to happen to move things forward. Still, I was curious enough to keep reading, and the twists picked things back up. I also liked how everything came together, and the ending felt satisfying.
If you like dual POVs, slow-burning investigations, and twists you won’t see coming, then you will enjoy this book.
#NetGalley #WatchHerLie
113 days
Someone Else's Daughter
Andrea Stewart
Ellie Campbell's life was a public spectacle, every intimate moment from her first period to her first love monetized by her influencer parents. She was a product, her childhood sold in snippets online. So she changed her name, severed ties, and vanished from the digital stage, desperate to reclaim a private existence.
But old habits die hard. From a distance, she still watched. When a chilling detail in her parents' latest video coincides with the disappearance of a family friend, a cold dread forces Ellie back into the spotlight. She rushes home, compelled by a single, desperate need: to protect her younger sister, Olivia.
What she finds is a perfect family facade cracking under pressure. Olivia is gone. Her parents claim she ran away, but Ellie knows better. Olivia would have come to her. As secrets unravel and the search intensifies, a grim discovery shatters any illusion of safety. Ellie must now confront the true cost of her online childhood, where the curated perfection hides a darkness far more sinister than she ever imagined.
Thank you to NetGalley and Poisoned Pen Press for an advanced copy of this title.
Someone Else’s Daughter is told through Ellie's perspective as the story bounces between past and present. The setup hooks you early on with a promising premise, but once the initial intrigue settles the pacing hits a wall and struggles to regain traction. The central mystery gets buried under repetitive flashbacks that fail to move the plot forward, making the midsection feel like a chore to navigate. Instead of building tension, the timeline jumps feel like stalling tactics rather than deliberate narrative choices.
Subplots that should have enriched the character development ended up feeling disconnected from the primary arc. Digressions into Ellie's shoplifting habit and stories about her dog added extra noise without offering any substance or payoff to the core tension. While the eventual twist was solid enough to briefly spark interest, the execution fell flat due to an abrupt conclusion that wrapped up the who and the why far too quickly.
If you like dual-timeline structures and slow-burn mysteries then you may enjoy this book.
#NetGalley #SomeoneElsesDaughter
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