The problem is, so does the entire female population. Jessica pushes his buttons-she's not the type of girl to swoon over celebrity heartthrobs, precisely why her aunt thought she'd be perfect for the job-and Jack pushes right back.īut as she begins to peel away his layers, Jessica is shocked to find she craves her boss's easy smile and sexy blue eyes. Jack is private, prickly, and downright condescending. Instead she's reluctantly working as Jack's personal assistant, thanks to her powerhouse talent agent aunt. She should be spending her junior year in France, eating pastries and sharpening her foreign language skills. Lie, Lie Again was a really fun read, I couldn't guess what would happen next, especially with a pathological liar among the group.Most girls would kill for the opportunity to work for Jack McAlister, Hollywood's hottest actor, but 21-year-old Jessica Beckett is ready to kick him out of her red Ford Fiesta and never look back. With descriptive writing, distinctive character voices, and a unique thriller plot line, Stacy Wise easily captured my attention with every page turn. As their individual perspectives tied together Lie, Lie Again soon becomes the nail-biter the blurb promised, with a dead body just waiting to be discovered. Every move Sylvie made unraveled their lives just that much more, their own small secrets and white lies soon went up in flames.

While I loved Sylvie most, I do love a good unreliable character, I related most with the meeker two.

Embry and Ricky were classic female characters, especially in the LA setting. Sylvie was cutthroat and manipulative, her perspective was easily my favorite and really tied the story's strings together. While each thinks the others' lives are perfect, inside the walls of their apartments all is not quite as it seems. The women of Mockingbird Lane aren't exempt from feelings of jealousy, insecurity, and hopelessness. Polite in passing previously, the three women band together to fight the sale of their complex, never realizing all the tiny secrets they've each been holding onto nor how any of it could lead to a dead body. Sylvie is desperate for a husband, Ricky is struggling both with money and a hopeless crush, and finally there's too-sweet Embry, mother of two and wife to a struggling actor. Stacy Wise gives readers a glimpse into the lives of three women living in an apartment complex and the desperate decisions they make as the lies pile up. Suburban drama, superb writing, and so many lies made Lie, Lie Again a hit for me. Find this review and others at Carlene Inspired.

Lie lie again by stacy wise