TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE BY CAROLA LORING

8/19/2021

Too Good to Be True is a twisty thriller with an evil and conniving plotline and characters who you simply cannot trust! This isn’t a bad thing either… Not for this book!

Rating: ★★★★
Release Date: March 2, 2021
Genre: Thriller. Suspense.
Series: None. Complete standalone.
Pages: 343 pages
Format: Hardcover. Source: Book of the Month Box.

ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH.

Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.

Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips—she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family—she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.

But now Burke—handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before—says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to

his therapist reveal the truth: he’s happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends.

In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past—or will he find his way into her future?

On a collision course she doesn’t see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke’s scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you’ll discover that there’s more than one way to spin the truth.

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𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪 𝗦𝗡𝗔𝗣𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗧: Too Good to Be True is a twisty thriller with an evil and conniving plotline and characters who you simply cannot trust! This isn’t a bad thing either… Not for this book!

WOW! This book has such a conniving and manipulating plotline that readers won’t know WHO to trust or even what lies ahead. I feel like it’s been a long time since I read a book that was so convoluted like this one and I am SO HERE FOR IT! This synopsis of this book gives readers a fairly good idea what to expect: “ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH” but not what happens in between. And it’s this stuff that happens that will leave your head spinning, your heart pumping, and your butt unable to leave your seat! Carola Loring is a new to me author but after reading this one I am super excited to see what she comes up with next (I’ll also have to go back and read her debut which sounds fantastic).

Too Good to Be True is a novel that reads best if the reader goes into it blind. There are too many spoilery things that could come about even if I try and described this novel, so I won’t even do that. I will say though that it’s an excellent plot filled with secrets, lies, and revenge! It’s one of those thrillers that leave you shocked until the very end! I enjoyed it so much! Glad I chose it as an add on for my book of the month box!

So why only 4 stars? The only thing that stopped me from giving this book a full five stars is that the ending was almost too easy for the characters involved. I get why the MC made the decisions that she did, but it felt way too easy for everything she went through. Also, I would have liked to know a little bit more about Burke and what happens after the fact… I can’t say in what way, but I know many who have read this or DO read this will understand what I’m talking about. An extra epilogue would have helped!

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙:
• Twisted plots and unreliable characters
• Domestic and Marriage Thrillers
• Tarryn Fisher, Rachel Hawkins, and Darby Kane

𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐⭐⭐⭐