I really liked tbe style of writing and raced through the book desperate to find out what was going on.

Lucy is a unique and fascinating character and the dual tiimelines had me hooked. Accomplished writing and great descriptive settings made it a pure joy.

However for me tbe ending came out of nowhere and was too fantastical to be believed.

This was an average book. It started off well but did not grip me as much as I would have liked. The ending was unbelievable and it still left me with many unanswered questions. I am afraid this is only worth 3 stars.

To tell you the truth by Gilly McMillan
I rate this book 3 75 stars
To tell you the truth . . . everybody lies.
Lucy Harper writes bestselling novels,
Her husband Dan has vanished. But this isn’t the first time that someone has disappeared from Lucy’s life. Three decades ago, her little brother Teddy also went missing and was never found. Lucy was the only witness.
Could she have hurt Teddy?  Did she kill Dan? What about Eliza?
Finally, now, Lucy Harper’s going to tell the truth.
Cross her heart.
And hope to die.
Short chapters between past flashbacks and present day kept me turning the pages to find out what really happened to Dan and Teddy. Mystery, suspense,relationships and jealousy this book has it all.Not everything was answered for me at the end and l was left wanting more!
With thanks to Netgalley, the Author and the Publisher for my chance to read and review this book .

Well, here I come with another 3 star review. I seem to be making a habit of this these days. I'm really hoping that 2021 starts dishing up some 5 star reads for me because I'm in desperate need of some.

Anyway, in regard to this title, I didn't love it. It was okay, and it did entertain me to the extent that I did stick with it right up to the end, but something just didn't work for me. I found Lucy's relationship with her husband incredibly weird right from the get-go. At some point she describes him as a nerdy, quieter type, but yet, he seemed to be the exact opposite of that. The way she remembers him from when they first met just didn't accord with the character that the author chooses to show us. And he really seemed to detest her, never showing any love for her at all. I didn't like that. And then I must be honest, the last 10% of this book was just too unbelievable. I wasn't taken with the ending at all, and the fact that certain aspects of the story never reach a conclusion also didn't sit well with me. We read the whole story in the hope that everything will pull together in the end, being the events from the past as well as the present, and the fact that they don't, wasn't to my liking. And as for Lucy, argh, she was irritating. And what was the deal with Eliza? Was she another personality? A figment of Lucy's imagination? A childhood imaginary friend? Another loose end that doesn't get explained.

So, I'm not going to bang on with a longer review than this. In summary, it was okay but fairly forgettable. As I write this I'm actually considering 2 stars...but my initial reaction was 3 stars and so I'll leave it there.