Genre: Mystery, Women’s Lit
A question this book asks: Can you be more loyal to a friend(s) than your mate?
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware is definitely chick lit, but it’s a good story and well told. It’s one chosen by the Reese Witherspoon book club, which may or may not be a good thing. It’s a tried and true formula. Four women have a dark secret from their school girl days. Now as adults, they’ve come together once again to stave off new questions about the body that was buried. Ware, a British author, keeps the suspense going and does a nice job describing the rugged English coast and the kind of people that live there. What makes this story interesting to me though, is actually a subplot, the relationship between the narrator, Isa (one of the four women) and her partner, Owen. Isa says she loves Owen, but their child together, and her old friends, always seem to come first.
