Review
I was surprised at myself for picking up The Lying Game as I did not care for In a Dark, Dark Wood, but I thought I would give Ruth Ware a second chance as I had been impressed with her way of creating suspense. I found that to be true in The Lying Game as well. She keeps your attention with just a twist of a word and kept me guessing the entire time.
While I prefered Ware's writing I did listen to part of this on audio read by Imogen Church. It did take me a while to get use to her tone but overall I found her to be a very engaging narrator.
The characters were all creepy in their own way and had a way of jumping back with importance to the story. However, Isa's baby Freya annoyed the heck out of me. It left a large part of the novel to discussing prams and breastfeeding that really didn't do anything to the overall story. I would have prefered that she was left out all together. My other issue was that I didn't feel that the author did a good enough job conveying why these three women would drop everything for a friend they hadn't seen in almost twenty years as Kate seemed like a pain in the butt.
The pacing, twist ending and even some of the characters in The Lying Game reminded me of Tana French's The Likeness. However, it was done in a way that it did not feel like a "been there done that" for this reader. The plot was still fresh enough that it kept me on my toes and I disregarded everything I had planned to do that day.
Overall, The Lying Game by Ruth Ware was not an edge-of-you-seat mystery but it kept you invested until the very end.
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This review was originally posted on First Impressions Reviews