Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
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Description from the Author
"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life - her father's identity - she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.
Set in the world of debutante balls, grand estates and rolling green hills, Little White Lies combines a charming setting, a classic fish-out-of-water story, and the sort of layered mystery only author Jennifer Lynn Barnes can pull off.
My Review
Page Count:400 pgs./9 hrs.,54 mins.
Narrator: Katherine Littrell
Genre: YA Contemporary, YA Mystery
Series: Debutantes, Book 1
My thoughts are still kind of all over the place about this book. I really had fun with most of the book, but I agree with other reviews that this book should have been about 100 pages shorter. The story jumps between the present and the nine months leading up to the debutante ball. I definitely got a Gilmore Girls vibe from the relationships between Sawyer, her mom, and her grandmother. This is a contemporary story laced with a mystery surrounding the identity of Sawyer's father.
The first half of the book was really funny, and I enjoyed reading about the Southern wealthy lifestyle. The second half was a little frustrating. A large chunk of the latter half of the book was a lot of characters running around trying to figure things out and building up to a big "event/plot twist," which ended up being very disappointing to me. The plot twist at the very end was something that I could have done without because it didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the story or the characters.
Overall the scandals were really tame (except for one), which made the buildup disappointing. While this was a fun read for the most part, I found this book to be just OK.
The first half of the book was really funny, and I enjoyed reading about the Southern wealthy lifestyle. The second half was a little frustrating. A large chunk of the latter half of the book was a lot of characters running around trying to figure things out and building up to a big "event/plot twist," which ended up being very disappointing to me. The plot twist at the very end was something that I could have done without because it didn't seem to fit in with the rest of the story or the characters.
Overall the scandals were really tame (except for one), which made the buildup disappointing. While this was a fun read for the most part, I found this book to be just OK.
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