Ashley Elston

This book started out interesting, but it didn’t stay there. This is a family story about meeting their expectations versus your expectations for yourself. Learning about the family was interesting, but when it gets down to the main part of the book where they must get their PE credit in order to graduate on time because the teacher didn’t turn in a report. This is where I stopped caring about this book. Maybe it was the narration style, maybe it was the book, but I had no desire to find out what happened at the end. I did make it 22% of the way through.… (mais)

Wow wow wow. SO GOOD.

First Lie Wins confirmed for me that this is my preferred genre—psychological thriller, not horror, not scary, not gory, just intensely suspenseful and unpredictable. I guessed maybe one thing correct in the whole book, and that was pretty late in the game. Lots of twists, several jaw-drop moments, all good writing and characters that are easy to visualize. The plot bounces around the timeline but is never confusing or hard to follow. So good. It’s only January but I can already say this will be one of my favorites this year.… (mais)