Little White Lies Book Review
Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes Book Review and Recommendation.
Date: 12-01-24 Post Written By: MK Overall Rating: 6.9/10
Book Cover Rating: 7.9/10
(By the way, I have literally no qualification to rate this and am purely rating it on how I feel like it looks)
Note: This is the cover of the book I have and I am SO upset because there is another BEAUTIFUL cover that I would TOTALLY give a 10/10, but that’s not the one I have and I’m not going to buy a duplicate just because it might have a better cover (probably……). If you plan on getting this book, DEFINITELY opt for the beautiful, pink, floral cover instead.
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Pages: 390
Genre: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery
Subplots: Drama
Series: Debutantes #1
Published: 2018
Blurb:
Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft is shocked when her estranged grandmother shows up at her apartment door and offers Sawyer a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. Because immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean solving the biggest mystery of her life—her father's identity—she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart.
Against all odds, Sawyer befriends a group of debutantes and quickly learns that her family is not the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer discovers there are secrets people will kill to keep buried.
Overall Book Rating: 6.9/10
I would maybe recommend this book
Review: This book was a little disappointing to me. I LOVE Jennifer Lynn Barnes and her writing. In THAT case, this book did not disappoint. The writing was spot on, and flowed naturally. However, in my opinion, the plot was over FULL of family drama. It just got to be a little too much for me. The plot also had a slower pace, which I didn’t really enjoy. The characters, however, were strong and believable. I always love how Jennifer Lynn Barnes makes characters and dialogue feel believable, and she did it again. If it wasn’t for her FABULOUS writing, this would have gotten a lower rating. Her writing wasn’t enough for me to give this book a great rating (just because the plot was not particularly interesting) though. In my opinion, this is her worst book (yeah, that changed once I read her second Debutantes book).
Main Characters:
Sawyer- Sawyer is the main character in this book. She is seventeen years old and originally lives with her mom in a small town. She is rebellious, and does not like anything too fancy or over the top.
Lily- Lily is Sawyer’s cousin. She is also seventeen. She originally seems polite and quite, but has a rebellious streak as well
Saide-Grace- Saide-Grade is Sawyer’s other cousin. She is ALSO seventeen and is bubbly and constantly full of energy.
Character Rating: 7.9/10
Setting:
This book takes place some place in southern USA. It starts out in a SUPER small town, then moves a few cities away to a larger and nicer town/neighborhood. The setting is described well, and I love all the comparisons between the two towns.
Setting Rating: 8.4/10
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Little White Lies (Don’t worry, I made sure to link to the one with the pretty cover 😊)
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Jennifer, who goes mostly by Jen, is an Oklahoma girl who's also lived in Connecticut and England, and a writer who spent years with a not-so-secret double life as a cognitive scientist, studying the psychology of fiction and the psychology of fandom.
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