Thursday, May 14, 2020

A Million Little Lies by Bette Lee Crosby - 4 Stars


I do love Bette Lee Crosby’s books and this one didn’t disappoint.  As someone whose very life growing up, had a life that I wanted to tell lies about, I understood this character very much.  I’m honest to a fault but I was able to find some things I connected with in the character of Suzanna Duff.  She starts telling lies after her Mother died when she was ten years old, and her Daddy starting coming home very drunk and out of control.  Suzanna was very lonely and she started lying to cover for her life when she is young and that grew out of control as she grew older.  Her lies threaten to destroy her life and she has to come to terms with it.  The book was a good read, with well fleshed out characters and a storyline that kept me going as Betty Lee Crosby’s books do.



I received this book free in the kindle format from Netgalley.com.  My comments and thoughts on this book are my own and I was not required to write a review in exchange for the book.  #AMillionLittleLies #NetGalley.com



Description as found on NetGalley.com:

A lifetime of lies, and a truth too painful to tell.

When Suzanna Duff was ten years old, she lost her mama, and that’s when the lies began. At first, they were just harmless little fibs, a way to hide her unbearable loneliness and the truth about a daddy who came home rip-roaring drunk every night. But in time, the lies grew bigger and now, when she is a grown woman with a daughter of her own, they threaten to destroy everything she loves.

The irony of this situation is that Suzanna never planned to stay in Georgia, she was simply passing through, looking for a fresh start in New Jersey. Attending that wake with her daughter Annie, was a fluke. An opportunity to enjoy a free meal. It should have entailed nothing more than a solemn nod and a brief expression of sympathy but, Ida Parker, the grieving widow mistook her for her the granddaughter who was carried off as an infant. Too embarrassed to do anything else, Suzanna played along. What harm was there in pretending to be someone else for a few hours? Hours turned into days and days into weeks; strangers became friends, love happened, and before long a year had flown by.

Now the past is standing on her doorstep and Suzanna must decide to leave here and disappear as she has done before, or tell the truth and break the hearts of those she loves most.