Reviews for Where the Truth Lies

The average rating for Where the Truth Lies based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-10-20 00:00:00 Paula Goldberg Where do I start? So much about this book made me angry and literally sigh in frustration. I can't even remember what about this book's description drew me into it enough to put it on my 'To Read' list in the first place. For starters, in the first part of the book (there are three) Emily meets Del--knows nothing about him!--and their first kiss is literally on page 60. Stupid, right? If you're like me, you believe in character development before anything changes. And really, readers learn little, if anything, about Del. Second thing: Emily gets herself pregnant by page 112. WTF? That's just stupid, in my opinion. Thus begins Part Two, which is just completely stupid and will probably make you want to slam your head into the wall, like it did me. Emily is so naive that she doesn't see signs of Del's drug use, they have protection-less sex, and she's just one of the most clueless characters I've ever been introduced to in a book. She was like...stupid beyond stupid. The entire 'summer' in the book spans one chapter. And in this summer, Emily "hides" her kid, gives birth to it, and puts it up for adoption. Yea, like someone's parents are going to let their daughter run off to New York with a girl who is, in my opinion, shady, and not even notice she's pregnant? How freaking unrealistic is that? Another thing, what was with the cuddling? Emily and her roommates are always cuddling, which is really weird. Okay, it's normal to cuddle with someone you're dating, but a roommate or best friend? Really sick, if you ask me. I also had a hard time figuring out why in the world Stephanie (Emily's BFF) was so...obsessed with her twin brother. It actually sickened me how weird this character was. The whole book made me want to...I don't know, rip it in half? And the only reason I really finished it, was so I could write a review that told what happened. So, obviously, I'm not suggesting this book to anyone who believes in...well, normal situations and believable characters. I have never read any of the author's other books, and really, I don't think I ever will. (Sorry for the hateful review...but if anything, I always speak my mind.)

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-29 00:00:00 Marilyne Castillo 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.