Title: None of This Is True
Author: Lisa Jewell
Genre: Thriller
Publisher: Atria Books
Release Date: August 08, 2023
Length: 380 pages
Source: Purchased
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Find it here: Amazon // Goodreads
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
My Review:
Lisa Jewell is one of my auto buy authors and I'm trying to read all the books she has written. I love the way she weaves a thrilling story together and has me guessing the whole time. I really never know how her books are going to end.
None of This Is True is the perfect title for this book because by the time I was finished reading it, I really didn't know which part of the story was true or who the liars were.
I love the way Alix and Josie meet in the beginning because it is very realistic. How many times have I been out at a restaurant somewhere and my attention is sucked into the big birthday party a couple table over? Being an introverted person, I can understand the draw Josie had to Alix. Like a month to a flame. Josie was craving something different in her life that she just put it all out there and basically became a stalker. I love how characters change throughout books. Even if the book is taking place over a short period of time. Josie seems super nice and introverted and then becomes something completely different by the end.
The parts of None of This Is True that intrigued me the most were the backstory parts about the daughters. But she didn't flesh out the characters enough for me and I would really have liked to know more about them. I think the daughters were very important to knowing more about Josie and her husband Walter and the whole family dynamic.
None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell is a great thriller and a mind-binding what is going on type of book. I highly recommend this read if you love Lisa Jewell's other books and enjoying reading light thrillers.
