Little White Lies (Debutantes #1)

Another Jenifer Lynn Barnes book for y'all: "Little White Lies"

[""I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But..."

Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father's identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.

Set in the world of debutante balls, grand estates and rolling green hills, Little White Lies combines a charming setting, a classic fish-out-of-water story, and the sort of layered mystery only author Jennifer Lynn Barnes can pull off."]

My coworker recommended this book duo to me after she finished reading #TheInheritanceGames series (new series, same author).

Like "The Inheritance Games", there's a overall secret that we're trying to solve, but a much bigger, much more scandalous secret under the surface. And once the ball starts rolling, that fucker rolls fast.

I really, really liked how Jennifer broke the traditional novel template but adding a "present time" section ever three (or so) chapters. Which went along with the novel's bigger, scandalous-er secrets. Which also went along with the plot (as we learned more about said secrets, more was revealed in "present time," and vise versa). And if the "previously on.." chapters didn't make you want to keep reading, the "present time" ones sure as hell did.

And if you read this one already, and you were also seriously fucking confused during the last few chapters, you were not alone. I kept asking my kindle "what the fuck is happening" (it didn't answer me).

Here's to finding out "what the fuck is happening" as well as getting answers to those super large and super fucking scandalous secrets in book two (and maybe more romance, question mark)

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