But Claire can’t remember anything from before the devastating car crash that’s left her injured. And now she’s surrounded by strangers, saying they’re her family and friends.
As Claire discovers the person she used to be she must also unravel the mystery that surrounds the accident. But the more Claire uncovers, the more she will be forced to face up to the dark secrets from her life before…
I'd like to thank HQ Digital for inviting me to be part of this blog tour and for my copy of Her Perfect Lies via NetGalley to review.
How are you supposed to carry on with your life after you are discharged from hospital if you have recollection of what your previous life consisted of? That's the situation our main protagonist Claire finds herself in after she suffers a traumatic brain injury resulting in total amnesia following a car accident with her father Tony. She has no memories of the accident or her life before... her family, her childhood or her marriage to husband Paul but yet she's expected to go home and carry on with her life even if she doesn't know what that entails.
What follows is a claustrophobic thriller as Claire's attempts to try and regain her memory by searching for anything that might help her remember events of her past but the more she discovers, the more she realises that not everything is as it seems. And that many of those closest to her are lying to her making it even harder for her to establish who she is and, more importantly, who she can really trust.
From the outset I, like Claire, was trying to work out what was going on as nothing seemed to make sense regarding the situation she was in. Why did Paul hardly visit her in the hospital and has a separate bedroom if they had a loving marriage? Why did Tony say that Claire wasn't in the car when she clearly was? Where is her mother and why has she not returned knowing her husband and daughter are seriously ill in hospital? And as for Gaby, Claire's best friend, just what is her story as there's definitely more than she is telling? So many questions that needed answering and it's only over time that the truth is slowly revealed and we, like Claire, get the answers.
I really felt for Claire as she struggled with her feeling of helplessness at her situation. She seemed to be a prisoner in her own home as Paul was controlling her medication, her activities and who she could see for her own protection. But all it did is make her feel even more out of control and the bad nightmares, that don't make sense to her, are not helping the situation which prompts her to take matters into her own hands to try and regain the lost memories. But maybe sometimes it's best to leave some memories in the past as it might make you realise that your life wasn't so perfect after all.
Claire really was the perfect unreliable narrator as you didn't know what was fact from fiction as everything unfolded. She was a character that had you feeling sorry for her one minute, but then not liking her the next as we discovered more about her, and then back to feeling empathy for her again.
Her Perfect Lies was an intense read from start to finish. One minute I thought I had it all worked out and then when everything came to a head I realised I was totally wrong. Well played Lana Newton, I can't wait to see what you have in store for us readers next.
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