The Darkest Lie
Ok, so I am not off to the best start for my New Years resolution of being better with this blog but life happens! My son just started soccer on top of everything else and today he is 20 months old so I have just been so busy. I had started off the New Year with a bang with reading, then I got in a bit of a slump but am trying to get back on track.
One of the chosen books that I have read so far this year is The Darkest Lie. A heart breaking story that was such a gripping read. Here is the GoodReads summary:
The mother I knew would never do those things. But maybe I never knew her after all.” Clothes, jokes, coded messages… Cecilia Brooks and her mom shared everything. At least, CeCe thought they did. Six months ago, her mom killed herself after accusations of having sex with a student, and CeCe’s been the subject of whispers and taunts ever since. Now, at the start of her high school senior year, between dealing with her grieving, distracted father, and the social nightmare that has become her life, CeCe just wants to fly under the radar. Instead, she’s volunteering at the school’s crisis hotline — the same place her mother worked. As she counsels troubled strangers, CeCe’s lingering suspicions about her mom’s death surface. With the help of Sam, a new student and newspaper intern, she starts to piece together fragmented clues that point to a twisted secret at the heart of her community. Soon, finding the truth isn’t just a matter of restoring her mother’s reputation, it’s about saving lives — including CeCe’s own…
The summary there along grips you! Pintip wrote a lovely and dark novel that keeps you up late into the night reading to find out the answers. Why would CeCe's mother do this? Did she do this? Has CeCe's entire life been a lie or is there more below the surface? This book is the type of book that will keep you up reading late into the night to see what happened.
A couple of times, I tried to guess who it could be, and to me it wasn't right away obvious the way some books are obvious in their answers and that is something else that made me enjoy this book. Not knowing for certain who was responsible for the events that were unfolding.
While there is some romance in this book, if you are used to reading contemporary stories by authors like Kasie West, then this isn't the book for you.
I encourage you readers to give this book a chance, I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
