Let's Pretend - Laura Vaughan

Description

When you fake it for a living, the truth is hard to find...

Former child star Lily Thane is now a struggling thirty-something actress. Her old stage-school buddy, Adam Harker, is on the brink of making it big, but he needs an appropriate red-carpet companion to seal the deal, and Lily fits the bill.

Soon after signing on the dotted line, Adam's dark side starts to surface and their perfect fauxmance turns toxic.

But when Adam winds up dead in a swimming pool, Lily is the only person who cares enough to find out why. She's convinced someone was out to get Adam - and now they're after her...

Review

This is a book in two halves and I hated the first half.

No one in this world of celebs is appealing. The author certainly created a world that I would want no part of. All the self satisfying and narcistic characters didn't encourage me to want to read on. I'm glad I did though as part two of the book things took a very different turn.

Part two has the same list of characters but now our star of the book Lily takes a front seat in not only her own life but those around her. She turns detective and whilst it's not a full on whodunnit it certainly kept me turning the pages.

I did not see the ending coming and was pleasantly surprised. I was so glad I stuck with this book and found out more than I was bargaining for. Well written and with good characters, I did feel though the first part of the book was a little too long.

I'm giving this book 3 out of 5 stars.

My thanks to Atlantic Books for the book proof to review. Let's Pretend will be published on 7 April 2022.

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