Love Lies Beneath by Ellen Hopkins
Publication Date: July 21, 2015Publisher: Atria Books
Pages: 320
From the #1 New York Times bestselling
author of Collateral comes a gripping novel about a woman caught in a love
affair that could be her salvation...or her undoing.
Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she’s a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself.
Enter Cavin Lattimore. He’s handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had never imagined possible. But then she begins to notice some strange things: a van parked outside her home at odd times, a break-in, threatening text messages and emails. She also starts to notice cracks in Cavin’s seemingly perfect personality, like the suppressed rage his conniving teenage son brings out in him, and the discovery that Cavin hired a detective to investigate her immediately after they met.
Now on crutches and housebound, Tara finds herself dependent on the new man in her life—perhaps too much so. She’s handling rocky relationships with her sister and best friend, who are envious of her glamour and freedom; her prickly brother-in-law, who is intimidated by her wealth and power; and her estranged mother. However perfect Tara’s life appears, things are beginning to get messy.
Writing in beautiful prose, Ellen Hopkins unveils a new style while evoking her signature poetic form that readers fell in love with in Collateral and Triangles.
Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she’s a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself.
Enter Cavin Lattimore. He’s handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had never imagined possible. But then she begins to notice some strange things: a van parked outside her home at odd times, a break-in, threatening text messages and emails. She also starts to notice cracks in Cavin’s seemingly perfect personality, like the suppressed rage his conniving teenage son brings out in him, and the discovery that Cavin hired a detective to investigate her immediately after they met.
Now on crutches and housebound, Tara finds herself dependent on the new man in her life—perhaps too much so. She’s handling rocky relationships with her sister and best friend, who are envious of her glamour and freedom; her prickly brother-in-law, who is intimidated by her wealth and power; and her estranged mother. However perfect Tara’s life appears, things are beginning to get messy.
Writing in beautiful prose, Ellen Hopkins unveils a new style while evoking her signature poetic form that readers fell in love with in Collateral and Triangles.
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Review
But this wasn't great, it was good. I was expecting a thriller with a lot of who to trust, who not to trust, and being on the edge of my seat the entire time. But that isn't what I got. It fell kind of flat some times and the ending was a little unsatisfying. I thought there were some loose ends and unanswered questions, but since this is a series I am sure there is more to come that will explain this.
Eli, though, he was my favorite character. I loved not knowing whether to trust him or not, let alone his intentions. He was probably the best character overall. I am thinking that maybe this will be like Triangle and Tilt with one book from the parent's perspective and then one from the child's.
The ending was unfulfilling. I thought there was too much build up for what the result was.
About the Author
fiction/verse merger.
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Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I am a huge fan of Ellen Hopkins, so of course I jumped at the chance to read and review her newest adult fiction novel! I wasn't too sure about the idea of prose over poetry, but I do think that it was still laid out in a good, Hopkins style.
But this wasn't great, it was good. I was expecting a thriller with a lot of who to trust, who not to trust, and being on the edge of my seat the entire time. But that isn't what I got. It fell kind of flat some times and the ending was a little unsatisfying. I thought there were some loose ends and unanswered questions, but since this is a series I am sure there is more to come that will explain this.Eli, though, he was my favorite character. I loved not knowing whether to trust him or not, let alone his intentions. He was probably the best character overall. I am thinking that maybe this will be like Triangle and Tilt with one book from the parent's perspective and then one from the child's.
The ending was unfulfilling. I thought there was too much build up for what the result was.
Overall: 3.5/5 stars for this one. I hope the rest of the series has more to it than this one did!
After
eight highly successful young adult novels-in-verse, I decided to explore more
mature subject matter and wrote my first two novels for adults utilizing my
signature verse-style formatting. I changed directions with my third, Love
Lies Beneath, choosing to write in prose to better connect with an older
audience, some of whom might be resistant to the
I
will continue to write YA, of course. (My twelfth YA novel publishes Fall
2015.) Teen characters are hugely appealing to me. But some topics I want to
write about demand adults as main characters. My first adult
novel, Triangles, explores midlife directional changes, and my
second, Collateral, follows a Marine couple through four deployments, with
the inevitable consequences. Please visit the BOOKS page here to learn more.
Love
Lies Beneath is sexy, chilling noir fiction about a woman who has it
all—wealth, beauty, possessions; everything, except love, which she finally
discovers at forty, after three failed marriages. While everything is perfect
at first, things change when the doctor’s teenage son moves in. It’s then the
lies begin to appear. But who, in fact, is the liar?
Expect
the sequel to Love Lies Beneath in 2016 and more books for mature
audiences in the future.
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