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Average rating3.8
ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH. Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips—she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family—she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result. But now Burke—handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before—says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims to be. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he’s happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends. In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past—or will he find his way into her future? On a collision course she doesn’t see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke’s scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you’ll discover that there’s more than one way to spin the truth.
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GEEZ LOUISE!! Three POVs, but which one is the truth. Great book. Couldn't put it down. This is one of those books you don't want to know a whole lot about before you start reading. Just go in blind, it's better that way. So good!! I mean some people are just truly not good people.
rounded up 2.5 ⭐️
honestly this dragged on for me im ngl...cool story in hindsight but it just didn't hook me...
all i got to say is fuck heather lmao idk why she just got away w all that shit
I got this book from book of the month and I'm really glad I did. Each chapter is one of three characters, and it flows extremely well. There were some twists I really wasn't expecting. The only thing I'd say is I disliked the last chapter and wish it didn't turn out that way.
Fast-paced and the second part was completely unexpected. The characters endings didn't seem right and/or justified and really soured the experience. Some really morally complex characters that make you unsure how to feel — I'm more a fan of black/white but can't deny the excellent writing.