Book of Lies
Terri Terry
Quinn and Piper are sisters separated at birth. After the death of their mother, they run into each other for the first time – and all is perhaps not how it seems. Quinn knows she is destined for evil, while Piper ‘just’ wants to know everything.
From the very beginning you already know there is something wrong about the way the twins have been treated. The more you read, the more you work out what is going on – even if it is exactly what the burb described and you aren’t ever really confused.
Sorry, but the curses spanning generations are really not the huge thing it’s made out to be on the blurb. Neither is the whole ‘Book of Lies’ that it is named after. There’s nothing new about this premise, and the setting leaves a lot to be desired too. Ooh, spooky moors. Wow. Original. Sorry. I’m obviously in a narky mood. I want to read something amazingly good!
I don’t understand what the final sister was doing at the end of the novel. Why would you do that? How does that make any sense at all? What’s wrong with knowing things?
This novel passed the time. The first 1/3 of the novel was just setting the scene with the two sisters trading places (3 stars), then the next 1/4 heats up a bit (4 stars), then it all turns out how you expect (3 stars) and then bleh, the ending was crap (2-3 stars). So no, I wouldn’t jump out and buy it, even if the cover looks beautiful. I’ll give it a begrudging 3 stars, but it is far better than Signs Point to Yes.
I kept putting off reading this novel for a very long time. The colour of the cover didn’t speak to me, the blurb put me right off… and it the end, it was 3 stars. It passed GO, but it certainly wasn’t any sort of master piece.
For me, this had a lot of backstory of each of the midwives so that you got a good feeling for who they were as people, as well as within their jobs. I would have loved to have more about the actual mothers and children. Every birth story is different, and I have a strange fascination with reading about them.
The premise of this book is so cool. Gottie is studying physics at school, and is interested in how time-travel might occur. Underlying her enjoyment of school is her fear of moving on to university. In order to motivate her, her physics teacher asks her to come up with a theory of time-travel, and then she will write a bright recommendation letter to get her into any college.
Marin! You great idiot. What were you thinking? You caused alllllllll of those issues. And then you wonder why people are mad. I guess you do sort of redeem yourself.
Some lines were truly funny, and required sharing with my partner, my workmates, the wider world! But others were thought-provoking and hard to take in. It reminded me in some way of 
There’s not much I can really say here, it is such a tiny little volume. I snaffled it up in around a half-hour. The action is fast-moving, and tries to keep your attention that way. I did drift off at points, but I think that’s just me.
There’s little bit of swapping between perspectives when they are all fighting in the Dream, which is not highlighted by different chapter breaks. This still works though because it feels like you distinctly stepped between each character in different places.
This novel had some fantastic laugh out loud parts that I couldn’t help sharing with my partner. And then she laughed as well. I really enjoyed it for those moments, and the language twists and the sheer absurdity of the fights that take place.
This novel was slow. Very, very slow. The first half of the novel happened, and nothing had happened. The princess they set out to see isn’t all that exciting. I thought she might be in peril! And additionally, 2/3 explorers already knew who she was.