This was a good thriller with a couple great twists thrown in. You really didn’t know who to trust! I also checked out the audio book and it was good for this one!

Multiple storylines with a few MC's in the Colorado Mountains at a Private School. The preface grips you when it starts off with two bodies found at the School. You're in for a dark and plotting thriller.
I think the storyline could have a been a bit more twisty. The ending wasn't extremely jaw dropping but still had a good close off.

The Lying Club takes us into the world of an elite private school where we meet Natalie, the office assistant with a few vices; Brooke, divorced, mother of Sloane; and Asha, a realtor and the mother of Mia who is best friends with Slaone.

Each woman has a lot of baggage and comes with a lot of drama! Rich people behaving badly and books set at schools are some of my favourite subgenres so I was immediately intrigued. Add in drama, lies and murder? Sold!

The book surprised me with how it tackled some serious topics - drugs, abuse, infidenity and more - and didn't just skim over them as plot devices. Instead, Ward spent time diving into the topics and not shying away from some serious stuff. The book is a slow burn, but stick with it. Everything comes together.

I look forward to reading more of her books!

Thank you to Harlequin Trade Publishing, Park Row & NetGalley for the gifted arc in exchange for a review.

The Lying Club was a trashy, entertaining, beach read for fans of Lifetime movies. We've seen these characters and stories and plot twists before, but it was all laid out in a satisfactory way that kept me turning the pages. Scandals arise, children are threatened, alliances shift: you know the drill. A fun, easy read that will still leave you hungry for something more..

The book opens with Natalie Bellman, administrative assistant at a high-dollar, very exclusive private school, confused as to where she is and why she’s there. She stumbles into the school gym, sees someone apparently dead, and wonders what exactly she’s done. Did she commit murder in an altered state? Or is there more to the story?

First off, there wasn’t really a lying club, unless it’s just implied. But there was definitely a whole lotta lying goin’ on. Husbands lying to wives, kids lying to parents, coaches lying to everybody, I don’t know how everybody managed to keep their stories even remotely straight. To me, a lot of that lying seemed unnecessary, but then, I prefer open and direct communication. Apparently many of these characters did not.

And was there a likable character in the bunch? Bitchy moms with too much money and a big entitlement chip on their shoulders (both for themselves and their children). Children who were horrible to parents (although I suspect Mia would have been a normal, sometimes moody teen were it not for Sloane’s influence). Coaches who thought they were a law unto themselves. Natalie could have been a lot more likable, but her tendency to make colossally stupid decisions spoiled that just a little. Her brother Jay and her fellow school admin Yvonne were probably the best characters in the book in terms of likability. And Jackson, the dog. He was cool.

Very twisty and turny. I knew at the outset that somebody was likely dead, but I had no idea who. Ward leads us down a lot of roads, takes detours, and backtracks, and she does all of this to great effect. She tells a heck of an engaging story, and does it with style.

Dark. Very dark. Maybe a little too dark for my taste, and I prefer books where I feel at least some twinge of empathy for the main characters. But still, worth the read. If you like a book that digs into the deep, unseen corners of the human psyche and love a good story regardless of whether you’d actually be able to stand any of the characters in real life, go grab The Lying Club.

The Lying Club is a domestic/academia slow burn twisty thriller that could be compared to Big Little Lies. Rich families, private school, dark event happens and it all unfolds.

Ooh, this was a twisty one! I love how many versions of the same story are being told at the same time and I loved the very end, possible sequel? I very much enjoyed this read and I am looking forward to reading more of Annie Ward's books in the future.

The Lying Club is a slow-burning thriller set at an elite private school. Two bodies are found on campus, and what happened makes for a captivating mystery.

The Lying Club is told using alternating points of views and timelines. The viewpoints are from three women, Natalie, Brooke, and Asha. Natalie is the school’s office assistant. Brooke and Asha are mothers of teen girls at the school. All three women are a mess, but in different ways.

A mystery thriller full of drama, secrets, and lies. The Lying Club has unreliable and unlikable narrators, and complicated relationships. This novel kept me turning the pages to find out what really happened at the school.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This one was just not for me. I loved Annie Wards last book and I was hoping for a different outcome, but it just was a slow read and I could not do it.

This was a decent thriller. It was definitely a worthwhile read. Interesting characters, good plot. And it kept me engaged!

This was a twisty thriller that follows three women and the one man they want and need. But soon things get dark and twisty when things start to unravel abasing the backdrop of the wealthy and how far and what their money can buy.

3.75 stars

This book was a wild story with a series of unexpected twists at the end. I knew the one character was probably going to turn out to be a creep, but I didn’t have any idea exactly how awful he was and to what extent he was manipulating and preying on other people. All of the perspectives and stories wove together nicely by the end, and I was satisfied with the justice/revenge that was achieved. Anyway, I enjoyed the book, and I can definitely understand the comparisons to Big Little Lies.

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get into this book. I loved the description and thought that the premise was good, but I wasn't able to finish this book.

While there were a lot of lies being told in this book, it didn’t seem like there was a lying club. The story was about the parents, students and staff at an elite school - Falcon Academy where rich and entitled parents would do whatever it took to advance the prospects of their rich and entitled children while the school appeared to be oblivious. Reputation is everything!

I could not relate to these rich and entitled characters. The parents were almost worse than the children. The children were bratty and secretive and indulged in dangerous behaviour. The staff members that the story focussed mainly on were Coach Nick Maguire who liked to look at pictures of naked teens and Natalie Bellman, the naive young receptionist. Natalie was probably the only potentially likeable character in the book but she spoiled it by overdoing the uppers and downers, drugs she purloined from various sources. She also made breathtakingly stupid decisions.

So that’s the setup and clearly it is a recipe for disaster. So while we are waiting for the inevitable train wreck we have to slog through a lot of detail, much of it I didn’t think was necessary. It slowed the pace of the story down. I felt the book could have been shorter and would have crisper for it.

Rich mothers in a small Colorado community pull a young school secretary into their exclusive world to uncover the crimes of a beloved personal trainer at an exclusive school who is drugging female athletes to photograph them. Money, drugs, porn, affairs, and secrets--Annie Ward's novel has it all. The Lying Club is a great beach, airplane, or weekend read--and even a better book to discuss with friends.

Very good read highly recommended. I totally recommend this book to friends and family it does not disappoint. Hope to read more books by this author in the near future.

Okay okay okay, time to pull out the wine, pop some popcorn, cuddle up in your coziest blanket, and get ready to read kind of a crazy story.

The novel opens up when Natalie, a 25 year old office assistant, wakes up in her car wondering what on earth happened. She enters the school she works at only to find a pool of blood.

The mystery of this book slowly builds and revolves around several women who might have a secret to keep. But what is that secret exactly?

You'll have to read to find out.

The Lying Club was definitely not wrong in it's marketing when using a quote comparing it to Big Little Lies because there were quite a few similarities in the style of writing, how the novel was set up, and in the characters.

This book was one of those mysteries where you start out by knowing that a crime was committed and who the primary suspect of said crime is. But you have to read the story, told in flashbacks and via the current timeline of the story which is all police interviews with the suspect. As you read the story you start to figure out who the key players are, who the rest of the suspects are, and how and why said crime happened.

This was a pretty decently written mystery in the way that you could pick up elements of how it would end (I absolutely loathe it when the reveal comes out of nowhere) but not all of the pieces were revealed until the day of the actual crime.

However, there was nothing surprising here. Of course the cops seemed to want to pin it on the only poor woman in the bunch. Of course the rich moms were so horrible they were practically all caricatures and lots of their problems would have been solved if they'd just stopped jumping to conclusions and actually talking to their frenemies and partners. Of course the bad guy was so bad that even on his deathbed he was an ass.

It was just all too predictable though entertaining enough that I read it fairly quickly.

I LOVED Annie Ward's book Beautiful Bad, I was excited to hear she had this one out. It fell flat for me. The Characters were not likeable and I didn't have the urge to BINGE the book, I had to force myself to get to the end. I wanted to love it, but it didn't work for me!

The Lying Club is a heckin social tangle in the BEST way! You will love hate some of the characters and will stay up way past your bedtime for this wild ride. Will be purchasing for the library's collection.