Book Review - All my lies are true - Dorothy Koomson

All My Lies Are True by Dorothy Koomson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

From the bestselling author of The Ice Cream Girls comes a gripping emotional thriller of love and obsession and the nature of coercive control. 'The author plays a blinder' says the Sun.

Verity is telling lies...
And that's why she's about to be arrested for attempted murder.

Serena has been lying for years. . .
And that may have driven her daughter, Verity, to do something unthinkable...

Poppy's lies have come back to haunt her . . .
So will her quest for the truth hurt everyone she loves?

Everyone lies.
But whose lies are going to end in tragedy?

This is the sequel to The Ice Cream Girls which I read back in 2016. I don't remember that book too well but the author provides enough background detail in this book that it can be read as a stand alone. However if you've never read either I would read them in order and closer together!

All that said this is another page turner from Koomson. It's very twisty. A lot of lying goes on so that it's hard sometimes to fathom exactly what happened and when. It can seem a bit far fetched at times and although it brings attention to the fact that men can easily be the victims of abuse by women the way this is portrayed in the story is rather diluted by circumstances around it. (Can't say more than that without a spoiler.) It does also show though that abuse doesn't always have to be physical.

It also contains scenes of a sexual nature so if that's not for you I'd give the book a miss.

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