Lights. Camera. Lies.
Eighteen-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would move on.
However, the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agrees to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end and life to return to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.
Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And – could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead.
Elaborate. If I had to use one word to describe this book, it would be elaborate. I started off listening to the audiobook, and it’s over thirteen hours. What could possibly happen in this book that it would take thirteen hours to listen to?
There are two reasons why a book is long: there’s so much going on in the story that it takes up a lot of pages, or there’s not much going on, but the author drags the story out with a lot of useless details to take up more pages. Both reasons are true in this story. A lot is going on, but some bits dragged on a bit too long. I think this was done for suspense.
I didn’t like Bel that much. She was too mean for my liking. Her attitude makes sense, considering her abandonment issues stemming from her mother leaving her behind when she was kidnapped.
Overall, if you want to read a ridiculously long true-crime mystery thriller where you don’t know who is telling the truth, this is the book for you.