Where the Truth Lies Book

You know those movies that look really exciting/interesting in the trailer and you're like "oooooh, that's gotta be good!" Then you go see the movie and you're like "yes, yes, interesting!" and then about half way it starts going down another path. The boring, safe and predictable path? And then the movie ends and you were like, "it was okay, but if I wrote the film, I would have made it about this and done this and this and this and..."

That's what Where the Truth Lies was for me. Really intriguing concept: girl at boarding school suffers from nightmares. Bad boy enters the picture. They fall in love. Meanwhile, her perfect parents are hiding things about her past and all her friends seem to have dubious lives and motives. Little threads are dropped here and there and you think it's all going to lead to something really, really cool.

But, in this case, it doesn't.

There was so much to work with here, to turn this into some gothic boarding school mystery, maybe even something paranormal. I mean, you have the terrible sleep terrors and the boarding school set-up, weird-acting twins, the charming dangerous bad boy with a shady past, as well as these detailed characters who seem to be hiding something and then in the end...nothing goes anywhere. Instead the book ignores the side characters and whatever interesting things happen to them - one character Franny seems to suffer from anorexia, she's super frail and damaged, she likes to "cuddle" her gfs a lot, she wears day of the week underwear to a fault until she starts wearing the wrong days...WHY give us all this information about her if you're just going to more or less leave her character alone - another character goes missing and a big to-do is made of it but in the end it was just kind of resolved and you're like WHY did that even matter?

So it didn't go all mysterious or creepy, instead the book ended up being about "family".

BORING.

*bangs fist* I didn't sign up for boring family drama!

And babies! Why the FUCK do babies have to come into play in a YA book (or fucking any book, yeah I'm not a baby lover). This is the second boarding school + baby book I've read and at least the last one had a morbid tone to it.

Now, if someone was like "this sounds like a book, should I read it?" I'd be like, "yeah whatever" *shrugs* The writing was fine, the characters interesting enough (although the main character has her FUCKING STUPID moments *sigh, omg* see: baby), it kept my attention the WHOLE way through (and it's a long book). So that's why I'm giving it three stars.

But would I, say, go around telling people to read this book?

Nah. I wouldn't.