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Jul 25, 2011

Ash rated it:

I don't even know what to say. I loved the book and really felt for Ruby and Lark until page 172 where she drops the bomb that totally obliterates the story for me.

Quick Overview: At age 19 Ruby was headed to California, but at a rest stop her plans change. There she finds an abandoned baby and immediately feels a connection and need to protect her. Nine years later, her and Lark have made a family. With close friends, her boyfriend Chaz, and a baby on the way they have a good life. More...

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Jul 26, 2011

Lynn rated it:

I have put off writing a review because I really don't know what I wanted to say about this book. The premise is intriguing, of course: A teenager finds an abandoned baby in a trash barrel just as she is setting off to begin life as a true orphan herself, the grandmother who raised her having recently died. Naturally, she keeps the baby. Jump immediately ahead 9 years to where the teenager, Ruby, now an adult woman has a perfect, loving relationship with her daughter, Lark, is engaged to be m More...

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Aug 09, 2010

Kaion rated it:

Nine years ago, when she was feeling utterly alone, Ruby found a baby with large eyes staring at her from the trash can of a truck rest stop. She took it as a sign, and carved out a happy life with "Lark" under the blue dome of sky of Santa Fe. Until she found out Lark wasn't as abandoned as she'd thought, and no matter what she does now, she stands to lose her daughter.

Another reviewer pretty aptly said that Mothers and Other Liars strains credibility. While truth is stran More...

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Jul 13, 2010

Gloria rated it:

This is a perfect title for this novel. I was sent the the pre-release to review for Amazon online. The unique plot line and the recommendations on the cover from many of my favorite authors had me excited to begin it.

Ruby is a 19-year old leaving her home town in search of a new life out west. She has no family, and feeling very alone when she discovers an abandoned baby girl at a rest stop and decides to keep her and raise her as her own. Nine years later she discovers that the More...

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Jan 03, 2012

Christie rated it:

I liked this book despite the fact that the premise of the story is tired. A child is kidnapped and raised by the kidnappers as their own child. There seems to be many books that have already visited this premise. The book was saved by being unique. The kidnapper in the story was not aware that she was a kidnapper instead believing that she saved an abandoned baby. There were many unpredictable twists and turns in the story that saved it from being the same old story over and over again. The way More...

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Aug 15, 2011

Evamarie rated it:

Another Readers Choice book from the library it took me awhile to get into it but did enjoy it for the most part. Like some others have said it seems kind of far fetched but I still couldn't put it down and had to find out what happened in the end. I really couldn't understand the choice Ruby made in order to get Lark back, thats where I wanted to through the book across the room.
Tired when I wrote this ment throw not through.

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Jul 05, 2011

Debbie rated it:

I thought this sounded like a very interesting story and couldn't wait to read it. But once I got started I founded it too unbelieveable and the characters not that interesting. I would have liked to feel more for Ruby and her difficult situation, but I did not. I would have liked to fall in love with Lark, her "daughter", and really root for her to be back with Ruby, but I did not. The writing was OK, but seemed a little too simple, like a HS writing assignment. The characters, o More...

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Jun 24, 2011

Sunday rated it:

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Apr 27, 2011

Jen C (ReadinginWBL) rated it:

The title and cover of this book really is what made me grab it off the new fiction self at the library. In reflecting on the title, Mothers & Other Liars, I am left wondering who the other liars were. This book started off good for me, got a little slow in the middle, but picked up again towards the end. Mothers & Other Liars reads a bit like a book by Jodi Picoult. It is an emotional read that in the heart of it examines the debate of Nurture vs. Nature. The book though not very long it i More...

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Mar 19, 2011

Karen rated it:

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Oct 25, 2010

Jillkofron rated it:

This book grabs your attention just by reading the back of the book. Throughout the entire book it was easy reading and it was enjoyable. I liked this book because it brought real life things into and things that you never though would have happened in the real world together. The story is about a struggle inside a mother who wants to do what's right, but is scared of the outcome. She does do what is right and she tries to make the best of it. She also tries to get the best of both worlds, which More...

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Sep 03, 2010

Louise rated it:

The main protagonist, Ruby Leander, was nineteen years old when she stumbled upon a baby in a trash can at a rest stop in Oklahoma. Ruby is unsure what to do but makes an instant decision, without thinking, and takes the baby.

Nine years later, Ruby and her daughter, Lark, live in New Mexico. During the past nine years, Ruby and Lark have carved out a happy life together. They have many friends, a loving dog named Clyde, Ruby has a job as a manicurist at her friends’ beauty salon a More...

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Jul 16, 2010

Elissa rated it:

This book was difficult to rate, and I'm trying to figure out if that's because it was flawed or because it didn't turn out to be the type of story I expected it to be. Some of the really terrific things about this book were the quiet moments--the mother-daughter relationship and some lyrical, sweet moments with "the Ms"--the lesbian proprietors of the beauty salon where Ruby works. The pacing worked really well, with short chapters that draw you in and keep you moving forward throug More...

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Jun 30, 2010

Miki rated it:

While I often enjoy literary fiction with emotionally intense family dramas, they are usually the sort of book that I read off and on over a few weeks. With "Mothers and Other Liars", however, I finished it in one night -- by the point where I would normally put the book down for the day, I was drawn in too deeply and needed to see it straight through.

This is the story of Ruby, a young mother in a small New Mexico town who makes a startlingly personal discovery while readin More...

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May 29, 2010

Jasmyn9 rated it:

An early review book that I hesitated to request, but am glad that I did. Ruby Leander has a secret, some would call it horrible, some would say deep dark, but I don't think any of those could really apply. Her daughter, Lark, isn't really hers. She found her in a trash can as she traveled to her new life out west. Assuming the baby had been abandoned, Ruby is shocked when nine years later, she finds that Lark's real parents have been looking for her all this time.

The story follows R More...

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Jun 04, 2011

Amy rated it:

I really liked this book, even though it did strain the lines of credibility. My BIGGEST complaint was the overuse of metaphors and similies - EVERY sentence it seemed. Definitely to the point of very distracting. There were times that I skimmed the book due to the writing style. Yes, the ending was tied up neatly in a bow, almost, but truthfully, I needed it that way. The premise and how Ruby ends up with Lark is very interesting. I think the author let her audience down in how she portra More...

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May 18, 2011

April rated it:

The most exciting thing about this book is the synopsis on the back cover. After losing her Grandmother, her last remaining family member, Ruby Leander is lost. Driving aimlessly, she stops at a gas station where she finds an abandoned baby and makes a decision that changes the course of her life forever. Nine years later, Ruby comes across an ad in the paper. Two parents are searching for their stolen baby and the baby's age adjusted photograph looks just like her daughter Lark.

Soun More...

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Oct 16, 2010

Amy rated it:

I'm so thankful to have been able to participate in a book tour of this book! Friday I was on page 90 and when I finally made myself go to bed in the early hours of Saturday morning, I was just thirty pages shy of the ending. I really couldn't put this book down. I loved the short chapters; it was easy to breeze through this book because it kept my attention with every page turned.

I'm not going to lie -- I was very thankful my husband wasn't in the room when I got a quarter of the More...

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Nov 22, 2011

Erin rated it:

This book ... oh, this book.

Before I had kids, this book probably wouldn't have really held my interest. I probably would have finished it still, but only if something better didn't come along in the meantime.

Now that I'm a mom though? I spent this entire book alternately struggling not to cry and struggling not to run into my baby's room and grab her out of the crib and never let go.

It was good. It was almost too good -- the type of good where you find yourself ski More...

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Mar 18, 2011

Jessica rated it:

I was extremely disappointed with this book. I had read a review of it somewhere and thought it sounded good, but it was overall very disappointing. The storyline follows Ruby and her daughter Lark. Ruby found Lark abandoned at a rest stop and decides to raise the baby instead of turning her over to the police. This decision will come to haunt her nine years later when Ruby sees a magazine article about parents looking for their kidnapped daughter - and that daughter is Lark. Ruby makes the More...

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Nov 20, 2010

Rebecca rated it:

A thouroughly unbelievable, although well-written, piece of fiction.

Ruby loses her grandmother at age 19 so she sells the house, packs up the car and heads to California. Along the way, she finds a baby in a trash can. Not knowing anything about babies, she decides to keep it (I know, it just gets weirder), drives till the car breaks down, is immediately taken in by a kindly gay couple, given a job, an apartment and all the free child care she needs. A few years later, one of her man More...

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Jun 17, 2011

HippieMommy rated it:

Mothers and Other Liars is the story of a teenager who finds an infant and decides to raise her as her own. Almost 10 years later, she reads an article in a magazine and finds out that the baby's parents are searching for their infant who was kidnapped by carjackers. From that point on, the story unfolds in the midst of the ethical dilemmas of whether or not to turn to the legal system, parental rights, and how to cope when time with your children has been lost.

Like many of the other More...

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Sep 28, 2010

Nichole rated it:

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Aug 31, 2011

Sammie rated it:

I liked this book.

9 years ago, Ruby thought she did a good thing. She rescued an abandoned baby and raised her as her own. Through a lot of luck she has a stable and content life (which some readers have criticised as unrealistic - but I'm happy to give her that security - as it allows us to focus on more interesting aspects of the relationships between characters).

Her outlook changes when she discovers that the baby she thought was unwanted and abandoned has in fact been m More...

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Jul 08, 2011

Desire rated it:

Heartwrenching...I was crying like a baby reading this book. Definitely NSFW! This was one of those books that puts a worst-case scenario in front of you and makes the reader question their own values in a what-if situation. I still have no clue what I would do, except maybe high-tail it to Mexico and disappear. I don't want to give too much away, but this was a great book and I still think about it months later...

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Jun 25, 2011

Caren rated it:

I totally love this book right now...I'm about half-way through and I'm not sure where it will end up so I may change my mind, but so far I love the style of writing and the story is fairly provocative.

I LOVED this book! If I hadn't been reading two other books, I would have finished this in a day. I did not want to put it down!
"Lovely, lyrical...The dialogue sings on every page and the story rings with authenticity."
Absolutely true. I loved the scenes she painted, More...

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Jul 28, 2010

Shelley (shellmh) rated it:

Fellow nestie Jennie won the an ARC (advanced reading copy) of Mothers & Other Liars by Amy Bourret on Goodreads. It was such a good book she decided to start a nestie book tour for it. I was the second to get it, and I finished it in less than 2 days (probably could have finished it in one sitting if we weren't so busy). I really enjoyed it. My only minor annoyance was that there were a LOT of similes.. I mean, don't get me wrong, I love a good simile every once in awhile, but there was an over More...

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Jun 18, 2010

Nely rated it:

I always have a soft spot for stories about mothers and their love for a child/children and this one won a place in my heart from the first turn of its page. I was able to connect with Ruby from the start.

At 19, Ruby Oleander finds a baby in a trash can while at a rest stop. Believing that the child was abandoned she grabs that baby and heads off out west in search of a new life and the ocean. Nine years later, she and her daughter Lark, have made a nice life for themselves. Lark is More...

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Jun 18, 2010

Shannon (shananagins) rated it:

I tore through this book in two days. Once I passed the halfway point I could not put it down until I knew how it ended.
Ruby is 19 years old when she finds a baby in a trash can. Thinking the baby was abandoned she decides on a whim to keep it. 9 years later she and the baby, who she named Lark, are living in Santa Fe when Ruby learns the disturbing truth about Lark's origins, and has to make some difficult decisions.
The book delves into the relationships between mothers and dau More...

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Jun 15, 2010

Jennie rated it:

I won this book through Goodreads First Reads giveaways and was really excited to read it. Of course, this is an actual book instead of an e-book so it was also a little trial in how much I missed paper books. The answer, not so much really! I started and finished this book in one day, I just couldn’t stop reading and HAD to know the ending. Maybe having a child of my own made me really connect with Ruby, I’m not sure, but my heart just kept breaking for her. In turn, my heart flew into my thro More...

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