Review: Behind Every Lie

Behind Every Lie by Christina McDonald
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This is a thriller with a good premise, what if you woke up in a hospital bed accused of murdering your mother but had no memory of the events leading to her death? This is what happens to the protagonist, Eva Hansen when her mother is murdered and she is the one suspected because she was seen at her mother's house last. This is a duel timeline story that goes between the events leading up to the murder and Eva's current day predicament. She slowly tries to work through her memory loss that occurred due to a lightening strike following her mother's death.
Overall, there are some aspects of this book that I enjoyed. I like the premise and setting of the book as well as the mother-daughter dynamic that is at the forefront. I did not like the unsurprising reveals and the oddities in the protagonist ways. Some of her decision making appeared to be just who she was, rather than secondary to her head injury, but did not seem sufficiently explained or discussed.
Just okay for me.
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