Everyone is Lying to You ⭐⭐⭐

 Everyone is Lying to You by Jo Piazza 

Queue Michael Jackson 🎵Cause this is thriller, thriller night🎵

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The #tradwife murder mystery we’ve all been waiting for. From the bestselling author of The Sicilian Inheritance and the creator of the Under the Influence podcast comes an explosive thriller about two estranged friends, a grisly murder, a sudden disappearance, and the truly shocking revelation that everyone is lying to you about something...

My condensed version of the very long "about":
Former college besties, one is an IG influencer with millions of followers documenting her perfect life, children, husband. The other is a struggling magazine writer. Influencer invites writer to a conference for an exclusive interview. Influencer's husband is murdered and she goes missing. Writer finds herself on the dark side of the cutthroat world of social media.

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Piazza’s master storytelling and razor-sharp insight into the world of social media brings us a pulpy, juicy, and cleverly plotted read that will have you guessing all the way through and leave you gasping for more.

As far as Jo Piazza's master storytelling, I *DID* 💖LOVE💖The Sicilian Inheritance! I did not like Charlotte Walsh Likes to Win. This one will tip the scales! ⚖

Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Fiction

⭐⭐⭐

Overall Enjoyment 🎉🎉🎉

Did it grab and keep my attention? 🎣🎣🎣

Would I recommend it to anyone? No ➖ 

Would I want a sequel 🕮 No ➖

Would I want to read more books by this author 📚🤷 I was thinking this one would tip the scales for me on Jo Piazza since I was 50/50 with the two I had already read. Now this one being a 3, the scale is still hanging in the balance. Loved one, didn't like one, one was okay. 

Trigger Warnings 💣💥💣💥domestic violence (both verbal and physical abuse), rape, murder. 

Spice 🌶No 

Plot twist 🌪🌪

Tidbits: I'm out of the age group target audience with the influencer world, even though I see a lot of older influencers too. Average age is 27 according to Mr. G! A lot of them making a shit ton of money. I can see how it would be a backstabby cutthroat business, especially with product sponsorships up for grabs. 

It definitely makes you see "influencers" in a different light. It's a dual story. The influencer lifestyle/drama and the murder mystery. At 50% I was questioning if I wanted to finish it. Do I care? But I was curious as to where she is taking us. So much of the influencer lifestyle is fake including settings. She talked about Shadow Rooms. If you don't have a fabulous kitchen, you can rent space, like a movie set. And it is "your kitchen" for as long as you paid for it. No duplicates. Weird. I already knew some of them record their content in one day for the entire week, sometimes an entire month's worth, depending on what they are trying to hock. That would make sense if you're renting your perfectly perfect environment to shoot in and pretend that its yours. One of the women in the story had a HUGE house so there was the part people saw on her SM channels and then a completely separate lived in "living space". 

The About said it was pulpy, juicy and cleverly plotted. I don't know about pulpy. The juicy part was more about deception. Cleverly plotted, meh.
Oh, and it said "...and leave you gasping for more". :gasp: worthy > Not so much. 

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