Review: DANGEROUS LIES by Becca Fitzpatrick
Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
About Dangerous Lies:
(description from Goodreads)
Another thrilling read from the queen of YA smoulder, Becca Fitzpatrick. If you enjoyed Hush, Hush, you’ll love Dangerous Lies
Stella Gordon’s life is a lie.
She does not belong in Thunder Basin, Nebraska. As the key witness in a murder trial, Stella is under witness protection, living a life she doesn’t want. No one can know who she really is. Not even Chet Falconer, her hot, enigmatic neighbour. But against her better judgement, Stella finds herself falling under Chet’s spell …
A storm is brewing. Is Stella really safe in Thunder Basin? And will Chet be her shelter, or her downfall …?
My review:
Ah, this book was soooo good–I’m writing this review straight off having finished it, and I’m filled with *all* the feels.
Fitzpatrick delivers believable characters, a plot full of action, and a romance that just leaps off the page. Chet was so real, and I loved that he had a dark past. It provided a nice parallel to Stella’s past too–and wow, Stella’s secrets are huge! There are so many plot twists that I just did not see coming.
Yet, there are a couple of things that made me give this book four stars instead of five. Firstly–and this is the biggest one for me–one of the off-page characters who has fibromyalgia is reported to be a drug addict because of her pain. As someone with a chronic illness myself (and I know people with fibromyalgia), this really annoyed me. I couldn’t help but feel Fitzpatrick was sending out the wrong message here, suggesting that all fibromyalgia sufferers are drug addicts. Which is so not the case, and quite a damaging message. I suppose, in a way, Fitzpatrick’s apparent message of fibro-sufferers being addicts could be discredited however, as the character who reports this is later shown to be unreliable–and this is shown in a great plot twist. Still, even then, I wasn’t really sure whether Fitzpatrick was enforcing that view or not.
The other thing that I didn’t particularly like was the beginning of the book. I found it to be unusually slow in pace–compared to Fitzpatrick’s other books–and I just didn’t like the main character, Stella. she was so unlikeable and annoying in those opening chapters, and I was disappointed, wondering how on earth I was going to keep reading…
But I did, and I am *so* glad. Stella became more likeable, and we really delved into the psyches of the other characters. The plot ramped up its tension, and the author proved that she really is a master of the thriller.
