None of This Is True
Aug. 7th, 2025 01:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alobearI picked up None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell in a charity shop because its title helped fulfil a prompt from a complicated reading challenge I'm doing - and I'm really glad I did!
I struggle with thrillers sometimes - either overwhelmed by an ending that goes way too far or underwhelmed by and ending that doesn't go far enough. But this one was pretty satisfying overall.
It's hard to do a narrative viewpoint well when the character in question is hiding a lot of things from the reader, but this is a good example of that done very effectively.
I also liked that all the characters, including the victims, are flawed - it makes the whole thing a lot more real and a lot more ambiguous. It's all in the title...
I struggle with thrillers sometimes - either overwhelmed by an ending that goes way too far or underwhelmed by and ending that doesn't go far enough. But this one was pretty satisfying overall.
It's hard to do a narrative viewpoint well when the character in question is hiding a lot of things from the reader, but this is a good example of that done very effectively.
I also liked that all the characters, including the victims, are flawed - it makes the whole thing a lot more real and a lot more ambiguous. It's all in the title...
