Z’s Reviews > One Perfect Lie > Status Update

I just didn’t feel we spent enough time on the investigation, the culprits or anything of that nature that I was like huh?

Then he dates the mom ok?

I couldn't buy into the second half of the book, I got bored and then uninterested

It started off 3.5* then ended like 2* so I guess 2.5?

Weirdly, when speaking to his boss the narrator refers to him as Chris instead of his real name Kurt

I think that it was interesting in the beginning and once all the lies were revealed to us about halfway through, it fell incredibly flat and boring to me, almost leaning into soap-opera and then it randomly amps up to an episode of SWAT

There were some questionable things so let me get those off my chest:

Raz’s mom mentions seeing him shirtless

Evan’s mom is jealous of the sexting photos she sees of a girl in her sons phone

Weird tho that author has made two pedo references so far, that he’s not one but is profiling like one and that the girls liking him is flattering but he’s after the boys

In helicopter, Chris gets Evan from the van, bomb is thwarted but Chris’ face goes viral so he can’t go undercover anymore, wants to start training program for new recruits

Jordan thinks Chris is a hero, his mom is angry she fell for his lies but he eventually makes it up to her and they go on a date

and that she told her brothers a teacher found out about her relationship w Evan so she thinks they killed him along w her husband

Chris tells his boss Evan and the teacher are working together

He goes to the teachers house her husband is dead and Evan’s BMW is there w difff plates so they switched it most likely w a van

He heads to meet at the teachers family farm, finds out her family has issue with fracking coming to town

Jordan’s mom takes the sext photo to Chris, she wants something to be done as the photo has been sent to team, Chris recognizes the tattoo, one of the friends of the dead teacher, who’s address is the town 2 hours north so Evan was most likely the one stealing the fertilizer

B/c the mom won’t let Chris go after Evan, he comes clean he’s undercover

Oh I forgot to mention Chris and Jordan’s mom kinda like each other

for Medicaid fraud and tax evasion, he’s been out late meeting w his lawyer not having an affair (huh? Then why did Evan lie about it, to save his dad for what ? Like a month?) he’s going to plead guilty and do 22 months in prison

Chris’ boss wants to pull him off this case cuz 2 hours north there’s evidence of blasting caps being stolen and tested so someone is making a bomb

Evan’s mom can’t resist calling the ex gf’s mom to tell her she’s sorry she only just found out about the abortion, but the other mom says it never happened so she confronts her husband and he said that him and their son lied, her husband is going to be indicted

Raz’s mom finds gun in his hamper, confronts him about being not a good mom and she knows he’s sad they hug it out

Chris offers to get dead teachers stuff for his husband so he doesn’t have to enter the scene, Chris thinks he was murdered, phone is missing, dust outlines show things were misplaced

Evan’s mom confronts husband and Evan, she finds out the missing $ was to pay for an abortion and to keep it hush hush