Sloane Caraway is a liar.
Harmless lies, mostly, to make her self-proclaimed sad, little life a bit more interesting.
So when Sloane sees a young girl in tears at a park one afternoon, she can't help herself—she tells the girl's (very attractive) dad she's a nurse and helps him pull a bee stinger from the girl's foot.
With this lie, and chance encounter, Sloane becomes the nanny for the wealthy, and privileged Jay and Violet Lockhart. The perfect New York couple, with a brownstone, a daughter in private school, and summers on Block Island.
But maybe Sloane isn't the only one lying, and all that's picture-perfect harbors a much more dangerous truth. To say anything more is to spoil the most exciting, twisty, and bitingly smart suspense novel to come out in years.
The thing about lies is that they add up, form their own truth and a twisted prison of a world. And in Count My Lies, Sophie Stava spins a breakneck, unputdownable thriller about the secrets we keep, and the terrifying dangers that lurk just under the images we spend so much time trying to maintain.
Careful what you lie for.
Here we go again with unlikeable characters. Sloane was... a bit much. But as a reader, I knew going in that Sloane was a liar. The story progressed, and then, about halfway through, there was a switch in narrators. I was blown away by the story's progression. The twist was reminiscent of The Housemaid by Freida McFadden, but even better. I loved the way the book ended, and not in the way you are thinking, based on my comparison.
This book is for any reader who loves a good twist!
Details:
- Count My Lies by Sophie Stava
- Pages: 336
- Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
- Publication Date: 3/4/2025
- Buy it Here!
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