Little White Lies by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, 400 pages. Freeform Books (Disney), 2018. $18.
Content: Language: PG-13 (28 swears); Mature Content: PG-13; Violence:
PG.
BUYING ADVISORY: MS, HS – OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Sawyer Taft is used to taking care of herself
because her mother has always been a bit distracted and Sawyer thought she had no other
family who was interested in her life.
But at eighteen, Sawyer’s grandmother, Lillian, shows up in Sawyer’s life
and offers her half a million dollars to come live at Lillian’s and participate
in the debutante season. Sawyer quickly
gets thrust into a lifestyle that she had never dreamed existed with family,
new friends and confusing enemies that have secrets Sawyer couldn’t even
imagine.
This is one of those books that
the story and the setting were intriguing, but the characters weren’t deep or
endearing. I liked trying to figure out
the mystery and the twists and turns were entertaining. My issue with the book was the weird reasoning
behind who Sawyer’s father was, it was way left field and put a damper on the ending. I also felt like the debutante culture needed
to be explained more, it was assumed that the reader knew what being a debutante entailed.
C. Peterson
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