Beautiful Lies: A Novel
by Lisa Unger
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Author: Lisa UngerEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-04-18
ISBN: 0307336689
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
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Book Review: "'Lifetime" tv Should Be Filming This Any Second.
Summary: 2 Stars
Beautiful Lies has a fantastic and original premise, involving a woman who rushes into Manhattan traffic one day saving a boy's life. She becomes an instant celebrity as a guardian angel, but her fortunes turn when she receives a letter that includes a press clipping of a young woman murdered in the seventies whose daughter was abducted, with a note that reads, 'Are you my daughter?'
I'm in for the first hundred pages or so, and then the book starts to turn into a predictable story with every cliche suspense moment including the car that tries to run you off the road, and the stranger in your hallway who's backlit with menace. To be honest, this started to play out like a classic Lifetime movie, once she meets her dark and sexy neighbor who seems to be harboring his own 'beautiful lies' when he isn't flexing his rock hard abs. The other thing that began to drive me crazy was the way the author continually broke the narrative to address the reader directly like a girlfriend she was chatting on the phone with. ("The way I saw it, there were a couple of other biggies. Tell me if you agree.)Why? You can't hear my response, Ridley.The book also never completely wraps up ,leaving a gaping hole as to who orchestrates the events that transpire. I guess, at the end of the day that wasn't the point. It's not a horrible book, just not a very original or suspenseful one. Unfortunately anyone who reads these kind of books with any regularity will have seen it all before. I'd classify it as chick lit, subheading:Woman in peril with hunky mysterious neighbor.
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