Book Review of The Dead Lie

Lana has left home to escape her past. In order to protect herself and her family, she had assumed a new identity without losing those connections from back home. Returning against her husband’s wishes, she finds that her past hasn’t left her. She faces death many times and loses her parents in the process to find peace.

This story was very hard to get into. Just as I felt comfortable settling in, Lana would do something that had me shaking my head. So many of the decisions Lana made didn’t flow with a woman who had kept her distance from her parents for years. Not even her children had met their grandparents. Lana had done much to protect herself but then does everything to invite danger.

In addition, the main character too many times acted like a teenager with a bad attitude. Here she was a grown woman who had lost her parents and she kept using her real identity. It was like all those years of hiding was for nothing. The crying and “tantrums” were too much for me.

This story lost me over and over as I struggled with the main character and her actions. None of it made sense. The character couldn’t decide if she was a grown adult or a temperamental teenager. Over and over, she’d waffle on her actions and focus on her own emotions which were very volatile. If I was as scared she claimed to be, I wouldn’t do anything she did. Inviting trouble to…