She does have what I’d consider to be a magnetic personality though so I’m thinking that was part of the allure. I had sympathy for her because she comes from an abusive home, but at the same time, I found some of the things she does to be somewhat juvenile and I sometimes wondered what Remy saw in her. I didn’t like Elise as much as I liked Remy, but I still thought she was an interesting character. Can we trust anything she is saying about that night? Her emotional state makes her a somewhat unreliable narrator, which adds yet another layer to the story. Remy also comes from a home where her parents scream, fight, and threaten divorce constantly, so for Remy, it hurts all the more to have lost Jack, who was the one bright spot in her life.

I can’t even imagine being in that kind of situation and the author does a wonderful job of showing us just how emotionally spent Remy is from the ordeal.

She’s an emotional wreck when the story opens, trying to wrap her head around the fact that the boy she loves is gone and that her best friend is the one who took him away from her. I found Remy to be a tremendously sympathetic character. The tension of the interrogation scene, coupled with finding out that such an awful thing had happened, immediately drew me in and had me wanting to know more. This is one of those books where I can’t say much at all without spoiling it, but I will say that I loved the opening.

All they know when the story opens is that the shooting took place at night in Remy’s best friend Elise’s home, Remy may or may not have been present, and it was Elise who pulled the trigger and ended Jack’s life. Remy Tsai’s boyfriend Jack has been shot dead, and the police are trying to get to the bottom of what happened. Sarah Lyu’s exciting debut The Best Lies opens with a death and a police interrogation. Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Mystery, Contemporary FictionĪmazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book DepositoryįTC Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley.

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