The Truth About You

"The Truth About You" is my second wary attempt at Susan Lewis's writing. 

This was a much more interesting and engaging read for me. Lainey Hollingsworth is the wife of a fairly successful writer. She manages her husband's writing career, takes care of her family, which includes a rebellious daughter, a stepson who seems to blame her for disrupting his family and an adoptive father who is suffering from Alzheimer's.

The book explores so many relationships between the main characters. Lainey seemed to have a volatile relationship with her mother who has fled from Italy to England while Lainey was in infant. While Lainey loves her step father and takes care of him, she longs to know about her past and her biological father, and the secrets that her mother fled from.

As Lainey plans a visit to dig out the truth's from her mother's past, she is confronted with another demon from her current life. She is caught unawares as her husband drops a bombshell which shatters her trust in her husband and their marriage.

She is caught between the secrets of her past and the troubles in her current marital bliss, as she struggles to face and figure out who she is, the reality she must live in and the choices she needs to make.

"The Truth About You" was engrossing even though it didn't make me think or contemplate too much after the story for completed. I would give this a rating of 3.5~4 on 5.

A Class Apart

'A Class Apart' is written by Susan Lewis and features four powerful, desirable and supposedly enviable women.

Each of these ladies have glamorous jobs in media, theatre  and  publishing. This book is all about their friendship and a dark secret that each of them has.

This is the first time I have read the work of Susan Lewis and for me this has been a disappointing start.

The story, though revolving around the lives of four women and their lives seemed a tad too unrealistic, in my opinion. I had to force myself to read till the end. It was difficult to believe that all four women would reach the crisis point in their problems all on the same day and at the same point of time.

So I would give a 2 on 5 for "A Class Apart". Going to try another book by Susan Lewis as some of her other books seem to have fared better on Goodreads.