We Lie Here

I was really looking forward to reading this book since I enjoyed Hall’s last publication, These Toxic Things, but sadly I was disappointed and eventually DNFed at the 60% mark.

We Lie Here had so much potential, especially after an amazing first chapter that totally hooked me. However, after that point the storyline just became so spastic and repetitive to the point where I couldn’t get into it. There was very little, if any, character development and the story did not flow well at all.

Personally I think this book needed more work before publishing. Take out a big chunk along with the repetitive dialogue, develop the plot and characters more, and this really could be a good book.

Thank you Thomas & Mercer for this gifted copy in exchange for my honest review.

Synopsis: TV writer Yara Gibson’s hometown of Palmdale, California, isn’t her first choice for a vacation. But she’s back to host her parents’ twentieth-anniversary party and find the perfect family mementos for the celebration. Everything is going to plan until Yara receives a disturbing text: I have information that will change your life.

The message is from Felicia Campbell, who claims to be a childhood friend of Yara’s mother. But they’ve been estranged for years–drama best ignored and forgotten. But Yara can’t forget Felicia, who keeps texting, insisting that Yara talk to her “before it’s too late.”

But the next day is already too late for Felicia, whose body is found floating in Lake Palmdale. Before she died, Felicia left Yara a key to a remote lakeside cabin. In the basement are files related to a mysterious tragedy, unsolved since 1998. What secrets was Felicia hiding? How much of what Yara knows about her family has been true?

The deeper Yara digs for answers, the more she fears that Felicia was right. Uncovering the truth about what happened at the cabin all those years ago will change Yara’s life–or end it.