📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Accomplice
AUTHOR: Lisa Lutz @lisa.lutz
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐰
Published: January 25, 2022
The Review 📚 The Accomplice
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had previously read The Swallows by this author and really enjoyed the journey of the mystery. Thank you to @netgalley and Ballantine Books for allowing me to read this ahead of publication.
💜 What I liked:
- This is a slow burn mystery told jumping around between different timelines. One of the characters is painted slightly unreliable in her memory due to seizures and trauma, so it’s hard to know if what she is going through is the truth. The author does a good job of never letting you think too much about the clues and suspects, moving to new things rather quickly, which makes it such an enjoyable reading experience.
😱 What I didn’t like:
- While the twists and ending made total sense, for some reason there was something that rang incohesive about it all. I felt slightly apathetic at the reveals, but surprised nonetheless.
🚦 My face at the end: 😬
💭 4 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Multiple timelines
- 2. Unsolved murders
- 3. College friends
- 4. So many secrets
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Owen and Luna have been friends forever, but the people closest to Owen tend to die. Luna also has a secret that may topple everything.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Received from Netgalley.
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📘 Summary 📚 The Accomplice
Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren’t they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Passenger, every answer raises a new, more chilling question.
Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they begin forming a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible–Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen–and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.
Years later, they’re still best friends when Luna finds Owen’s wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds some light on long-hidden secrets, but it can’t penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she’s spent her whole life burying.
The Accomplice examines the bonds of shared history, what it costs to break them, and what happens when you start wondering if you ever truly knew the only person who truly knows you.