Beautiful Lies – Opening Review

Is it bad that when you are already starting to hate a book and you haven’t even finished the opening chapter?

Reading Beautiful Lies right now. Not only do I feel like being beaten over the head with the archaic view of traditional families – over and over and over again – but also am undergoing the biggest informational dump and backstory – all in italics – in the history of literature. It almost reads as the introductory synopsis to a high school’s English Literature anthology. It’s is quite ridiculous.

I am not even exactly sure why Lisa Unger, the author, even gets the idea that such an extended opening is ok. Keep it short and allow the “additional” information develop in bits and pieces in the story. It opened well – the first few paragraphs or so – with a woman sitting in the dark waiting gripping a bat in one hand and the phone in the other. But it goes downhill from there quickly… and it is just the epigraph!

I can only hope that it improves from here, but right now I am certainly not excited to continue reading