Book Facts:
Title: None of This Is True
Author: Lisa Jewel
Publisher: Atria Books
Publication Date: August 8, 2023
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
Goodreads Synopsis:
Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins.
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.
Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.
But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.
Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?
“But I suppose the problem is that people often don’t realize that their lives are changing for the better until after the event, when they stop to look back.”
― Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True
My Thoughts
Thrillers have never been my go-to books. This is mainly because I don’t like gore. But, I do love a good psychological thriller that keeps you guessing. Lisa Jewell has a knack for creating creating flawed characters with complex motivations.
After discovering that they have the same birthday, Josie convinces Alix to make a podcast. As Josie reveals her past, the reader is torn between being sympathetic and disturbed by her peculiar behavior. The depth of her psychosis is slowly revealed to the reader. By the end, there are so many twists the reader doesn’t know what is truth and what is lie.
This is not a fast-paced thriller; it’s more of a psychological study, which is what I enjoy.
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