Jessica Warman spins an entangled tale in Beautiful Lies. The reader is jostled around by Warman as they try to decipher just what is happening to the main character Rachel/Alice (?). Starting from the very first page the reader is deceived by the narrator who is immediately branded as unreliable.

My thoughts:

I was really excited to read Beautiful Lies when I first read the description, however the book didn’t live up to my expectations. Warman gives a really valiant attempt at trying to achieve her point, making the narrator as unreliable as possible. She actually achieves that point but a little too well. By the time the story ended I didn’t know who to trust. That is where I find fault in this book. I understand that may have been Warman’s point but if it was then this is simply not a novel that I personally like. I would have liked to be able to trust the ending, but I can’t and that above all else is what get’s me. I love the broader story idea but the complete unreliability of the narrator gets me.
I feel as though there were a lot of things that were never fully explained. The power that one twin has to connect with the other is an example. The entire novel has a very Lovely Bones feel to it and I wish that it would have lived up to the beauty of that book.
It is my hope that this review get’s you interested in reading the book so that you may form your own opinion on the story. I feel that it is very important for every reader to decide and form their own opinions. If the description from Goodreads or another higher rated review sounds good to you I hope that you all go out and read this!