My Review of Society of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown

Title: Society of Lies

Author: Lauren Ling Brown

Published: October 1,2024

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group/Ballantine Books

Genre: Thriller/Mystery/Suspense

Pages: 384 pages

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review:

Intriguing, haunting, dark, compelling, heartbreaking and secrets are just some of the words to describe this book! In Brown's debut novel, she set the bar high for her future novels because this one was well written and thoughtfully put together and I couldn't put it down! The character development alone is masterminded! 

Our story begins when Maya is told her younger sister Naomi hasn't contacted her for a few days, and this is out of character for Naomi and Maya begins to worry for her younger sister. While trying to talk herself down and breathe she receives devastating news that will change her future forever. Naomie is found dead. While handling the death of her younger sister she decides to figure out what her sister was doing the months and time before she passed away and Maya is convinced that Naomi was murdered. Looking into what Naomi was doing and whom she was talking to she realizes that Naomi was trying to figure out what happened all those years ago when Maya was at Princeton when she was a student and another student died on a trip. Bringing back secrets that Maya would rather have left in the past she must dive into Naomi's hunt for information to find out who murdered her and what else they were hiding! I enjoyed the two POVs of Maya and Naomie then the past and the present helped piece the whole situation together along with the serious nature of everything going on and worked very well for this novel! If you are looking for a good thriller full of secrets, murder, secret societies, and how staying silent when you know information and how it's so easy to get sucked into silence then you should pick up this book! I recommend it and you will be on the edge of your seat mentally taking notes so you can figure out whodunit! 

Thank you Netgalley and Ballantine/Random House Publishing for the extraordinary opportunity to read and review this one! Such a treat and a thrill for the spooky season! 

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