Lies You Wanted to Hear
by James Whitfield Thomson
It’s so rare, and so refreshing, to read a realistic female character created by a male author. I’ve read many very enjoyable stories from male authors who just miss recreating the female psyche, but to my great surprise, James Whitfield Thomson wrote a story so believably female, I had to look twice at the author’s name.
The bulk of Lies You Wanted to Hear takes place in the 1970s, and whether you’ve lived through that decade or are young enough to think it was terrible, you’ll appreciate his description of the mindset and behavior of hippies from the time period. A young woman falls in love instantly with a no-good loser, and despite his on-again, off-again aloof behavior, she puts herself at his beck and call for years. Her blind devotion is painfully realistic; even when a decent man enters her world, she can’t forget about her ex. If you’re that one woman in the world who never fell for a bad boy, this book isn’t for you. Everyone else will see themselves in the pages.
Thoroughly satisfying from start to finish, Lies You Wanted to Hear takes you on a journey and makes you think about the consequences after the book is over. I don’t usually like books that have alternating POV chapters, but Thomson has great reasons for his style, and his choice makes the story work even better than an omniscient third person perspective.
The bulk of Lies You Wanted to Hear takes place in the 1970s, and whether you’ve lived through that decade or are young enough to think it was terrible, you’ll appreciate his description of the mindset and behavior of hippies from the time period. A young woman falls in love instantly with a no-good loser, and despite his on-again, off-again aloof behavior, she puts herself at his beck and call for years. Her blind devotion is painfully realistic; even when a decent man enters her world, she can’t forget about her ex. If you’re that one woman in the world who never fell for a bad boy, this book isn’t for you. Everyone else will see themselves in the pages.
Thoroughly satisfying from start to finish, Lies You Wanted to Hear takes you on a journey and makes you think about the consequences after the book is over. I don’t usually like books that have alternating POV chapters, but Thomson has great reasons for his style, and his choice makes the story work even better than an omniscient third person perspective.