Title: Perfect Lie
Author: Teresa Mummert
Blog Tour: December 18th-30th
Release Date: December 17th, 2013
Synopsis:
Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes
all rational thought.
That's why Brock and I never had a chance. I had to start my life over. College was my
chance to become someone new. I changed everything about myself to fit in, but
one person saw through my facade.
The attraction between Abel and I was undeniable, but I
still hadn't healed from the painful secret I carried around with me. Abel
struggled to get me to face my past in order to move forward. In doing so, he
revealed a secret of his own; one that changed everything I thought I knew.
A secret that would bring Brock back into my life and force
me to face the truth of what really happened the day I lost him.
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Review:
My Rating = 5 Stars
OMG this book totally blew my mind. It was so not what I was
expecting, which was a good thing. After reading the blurb I was immediately
predicting the storyline, how it would transpire and how the HEA would be.
WRONG! I just love it when a book does that to my jaded presumptions and kicks me
up the beam end to divulge a curve ball so off the wall, it had me seeing
stars. It’s not often that they come along, but sometimes a book will land in
your lap that offers you something so completely unexpected and opens your mind
to new experiences and feeds your imagination. Well this book was one of those.
Now saying all that, this is not a book for the impatient
reader as the story was a slow build up with flashes of the past intermingled
with the present. It sets itself out as a typical ‘new adult’ genre kind of
read but this is so far more than that. Yes there is the angst of old love
versus new love, jealously and infidelity but the reader is kept guessing as to
the outcome and when we are finally there it was so totally not what was envisaged
as a typical NA HEA.
Delilah (AKA as Lie) has been through a turbulent past, born
as the result of a violent rape, the victim of bullying, intermittent time spent
in care homes, a mother that hated her and religious grandparents who despaired
of her, all lead to her fate of meeting Brock and the explosive events that
would occur. She feels the only way to rid herself of her past is to reinvent
herself in another city, another world away that would bring her to Abel.
Abel himself is fighting his own demons and it is through
this shared sense of loss and abatement of his life that he finds an affinity with
Lie (or Kettle as he calls her)
To say much more would reveal far too much and this book
needs to be read with a total lack of expectation. It was so beautifully
written with an engaging prose it fully ensnared me until it was read and my
first thought upon reading it was ‘No way! OMG. Really?’ All the way through
the reader is given a soupçon of understanding of what and where Brock is in
the present and also where Abel has come from but it was so amazing how the
truth was finally revealed. I could actually relate it slightly to a film (one
of my all-time favourite mystery/suspense/horror) but to give the name would
lead you to an almighty clue as to the end.
This book therefore, for me, deserves a mega 5 star rating.
Absolutely fantastic!
Author Bio:
"I was a Russian spy at the ripe age of thirteen, given my uncanny ability to tell if someone was lying ( I also read fortunes on the weekends). By sixteen I had become too much of a handful for the Lethal Intelligence Ensemble (L.I.E.). I was quickly exiled to the south of France where I worked with wayward elephants in the Circus of Roaming Animals and People (C.R.A.P.). I was able to make ends meet by selling my organs on the black market for pocket change and beer money. At the age of twenty three I decided to expand my horizons and become a blackjack dealer in Ireland. I loved the family atmosphere at Barney's Underground Liquor Lounge (B.U.L.L.). People couldn't resist the allure of Liquor up front and poker in the rear. Eventually I became tired of the rear and headed off to the United States to try my hand at tall tales. That is what brings us here today. If you have a moment I'd like to tell you a story.
(This bio is not to be taken seriously under any circumstance.)
Teresa Mummert is an army wife and mother whose passion in life is writing. She is the author of the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling novels White Trash Beautiful and Suicide Note. Born in Pennsylvania, she lived a small town life before following her husband's military career to Louisiana and Georgia. Check out her website for samples and updates! TeresaMummert.com
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