The Lying Club: A Novel by Annie Ward

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

At Falcon Academy, money talks, and the students and parents have plenty of it. The parents want their children to have the best opportunities, while their teenagers use their resources to party hard in their off-time. The Lying Club follows two mother/daughter pairs and an administrative assistant as they navigate this elite world, filled with secrets, and, when the light of day emerges one winter day - pure evil. What happened that snowy morning? The women need to find out because one of them may be involved and wind up behind bars.

The story is told from the point of view mostly from the three main women of the story: Brooke, Asha, and Natalie (the two mothers and the administrative assistant).

This book had a great soap-opera like quality to it, which was just great because I love being able to take a little break and just relax into a good drama-filled world. And hoooo-boy, did this one have the drama - from affairs, to drugs, to teenage love stories gone awry, this one had it all. And I was here for it. The author was really skilled at drawing you in and keeping you on your toes as she wove all of these different threads together without making things confusing.

The ending was really intense and I found myself almost gasping out loud as things fell into place. I won't spoil anything, but as certain things were revealed, I was like, "Wow. I did not even think of that." But it made perfect sense; it didn't come out of nowhere, I just hadn't really picked up on it until the author made the connection, you know? THAT is what a good thriller/mystery can do for you. Make you think and blow your mind.

Overall, I will definitely be reading Annie Ward again. Anyone who can make me feel that satisfied after reading a book is worth another read and this book 100 percent let me feeling satisfied!

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