Review copy provided via Reading Alley in exchange for an
honest review.
Summary: Shattered Lies
She wants
to know the truth, but some secrets might be better left alone… Kate Thayer has
a good life as a veterinarian, running the family horse farm—until she uncovers
an act of unimaginable treachery by those she trusted most and learns that
everything she knew about herself was a lie. Her paternal grandmother, the
woman who raised her, is behind a number of devastating secrets Kate is
compelled to discover. But the deeper she digs, the more betrayal she finds,
changing her life in ways she could have never foreseen.
Review:
From the
very first page, you are sucked into this story and can’t walk away. Each of
the characters comes alive, and you slowly learn which one’s to hate and which
one’s to love. This book is an ARC, so
there are some spots, which need work on, but over all this book has what it
takes to be a number-one seller.
This is
one of those books, which touches the heart, and opens our mind to the truths,
which so many try to hide. The characters all feel so real you forget your
reading a fiction story. The development of the story as a whole is complex,
and you can tell the author did much research to make the story feel as real is
it does. The flow is perfect; the style
of writing is very clear, which helps to make the story feel so real.
In my review,
I normally go into the grammatical and punctuation errors I find, but since
this is an ARC, and I expected to find some, but didn’t. I did how ever come
across a few area’s, which need some work to make they flow and connect with
the readers more.
Page 20
PDF format “Kate had raised the female from a foal.” Nobody who raises horses says
female when referring to their horse it’s always mare. I run a small ranch
where I own and board horses.
Page 46
PDF format “The foals were her fourth litter born to her in the last six years.”
Nobody in the horse world would say litter… Cats and Dogs as well as pigs have
litters… to make this sentence flow and
connect with the readers it should have read. “The foals were her fourth born
to her in the last six years.” Just take out the word litter. Also on this page
the sentence, which reads, “He was their pride of the farm – a show horse
champion…. In all my years around horses,
I’ve never heard anyone say it that way so in my minds and in the minds of most
people who are around horses it should read. “He is their pride of the farm – a
Champion show horse.”
Conclusion:
Would I
recommend this book to others? YES
Would I
read other works by this Author? YES
Is this
book a Novel or Novella? Nice length Novel.
Is this
book priced correctly? The e-book price is alright, but the paperback book
price is on the high side in my eyes, as I’m a budget buyer and won’t spend
that kind of money on a book unless it was a hardback.
