![]() I absolutely loved Sophie and reading about her life, through her ups and downs, her stubbornness and her pride. Main character and chief protagonist Sophie Topper Quinn is one of those few and far between heroines: she's strong, passionate, honorable, stubborn, flawed, and real. Heart-breaking in a variety of ways, If I Lie is easily one of my best of 2012 reads. Though I read an ARC of this, I fully plan to buy my own copy when it's available. Corrine Jackson is undoubtedly an author to watch and she more than proves her talent with this contemporary debut. And, however much I was initaially reminded of those novels, this is very much its own novel. It and the themes and issues explored in those 276 pages brought to mind The Scarlet Letter and another novel I recently read, Speechless by Hannah Harrington, on how inaction and silence can be as harmful as telling secrets. This is a book that made me feel things (All the feelings!), that made me care intensely about its wide cast of multi-dimensional characters people all in all, this is a damn good book and I literally have zero complaints. It's gripping, and touching, and altogether beautiful in several ways. ![]() ![]() I'm still having a hard time putting coherent thoughts about it together, but If I Lie made me cry, oh, once every 75 pages or so. ![]() This is just so so good, from start to finish. ![]()
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