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takethyme's review against another edition
3.0
You need to be a fan of family dynamics in order to enjoy [b:Live to Tell|6696296|Live to Tell (Live to Tell #1)|Wendy Corsi Staub|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389416004l/6696296._SY75_.jpg|26688004].
Lauren Welsh was trying to come to terms with her husband having left her for an older woman. With two teenagers and a very mature six??-year-old, she had her hands full. The Walsh childrens' POVs were a good part of this narrative. And Ms. Staub reminded the reader more than once of Lauren trying to cope.
Included with all this drama was a secondary story concerning a politician, his wife and daughter. Not to mention, Nick Walsh's POV. And, finally, there was the killer.
This was the first story I have read by this author. I felt compassion for Lauren and her children. I thought the suspense was revealing with an interesting twist at the end. At the same time, I found it hard to remember all of the characters. While reading the secondary stories (Nick and the OW, the politician and his family), I thought the characters were shallow and found the reading slow.
I expect a very fast pace when I read a thriller. If not, I lose interest. Instead, while reading [b:Live to Tell|6696296|Live to Tell (Live to Tell #1)|Wendy Corsi Staub|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389416004l/6696296._SY75_.jpg|26688004], I kept thinking of the idiom:
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT.
Lauren Welsh was trying to come to terms with her husband having left her for an older woman. With two teenagers and a very mature six??-year-old, she had her hands full. The Walsh childrens' POVs were a good part of this narrative. And Ms. Staub reminded the reader more than once of Lauren trying to cope.
Included with all this drama was a secondary story concerning a politician, his wife and daughter. Not to mention, Nick Walsh's POV. And, finally, there was the killer.
This was the first story I have read by this author. I felt compassion for Lauren and her children. I thought the suspense was revealing with an interesting twist at the end. At the same time, I found it hard to remember all of the characters. While reading the secondary stories (Nick and the OW, the politician and his family), I thought the characters were shallow and found the reading slow.
I expect a very fast pace when I read a thriller. If not, I lose interest. Instead, while reading [b:Live to Tell|6696296|Live to Tell (Live to Tell #1)|Wendy Corsi Staub|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1389416004l/6696296._SY75_.jpg|26688004], I kept thinking of the idiom:
LATHER, RINSE, REPEAT.
merylsalerno's review against another edition
3.0
I really enjoyed this. Enough that I immediately went and downloaded the second and third in the trilogy. The story line was suspenseful and engaging, and the most believable of the three. The second and third seemed a little bit forced - How much tragedy can befall the same group of people before they start to pay more attention to their surroundings? This one surprised me - both in how the story developed, how the stories intertwined, and in how much I liked it.
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