Book: All My Lies Are True
Author: Dorothy Koomson
Start Reading Date: March 16th 2021
End Reading Date: March 23rd 2021
My Goodreads Rating: 5
All My Lies Are True is the sequel to The Ice Cream Girls. Having read a lot of Dorothy Koomson books there have been two that always stuck out to me that I wanted to know what happened to them, where the children are as adults, where the adults now, what’s happened in their lives. The Ice Cream Girls is one of those books that I needed some sort of answers to.
10 years after leaving Marcus grave Serena and Poppy are brought back together. Poppy’s younger brother has been attacked and Serena’s daughter Verity has been seeing him for almost a year. Both Logan and Verity have kept it quiet. Life for Serena and Poppy flip upside down once again. This time their families are more involved.
While Reading
I am absolutely devouring the book.
I can completely understand why both Logan and Verity didn’t want to say anything to Poppy, Serena or their family about being in a relationship because they were already tied together because of Marcus.
I think the lawyer who works with Verity and becomes her lawyer after she is arrested is a vile man. You can tell that in the last ten years Verity has become a strong, hard working woman, yet her boss reminds me of Marcus.
When it comes to abuse, you never know who is being abused, who the abuser is. Evan makes a good point about how Logan can seem abusive because Verity hasn’t been spending time with her brother or her best friend via how a friend of Verity’s is with his girlfriend.
I’m being to really dislike Verity & Logan. Both have flaws. Poppy and Serena are comparing Logan to Marcus is a bit unfair because though it seems like Logan was abusing Verity is she also as innocent as it seems. Where as Marcus was the only one who was abusive in both his relationship with Poppy & Serena.
I really feel for Serena in this book more than I did in The Ice Cream Girls. Everyone seems to be after her to tell the truth about what happened. I would like to see Marcus son to also talk to Poppy
Conclusion
For me All My Lies Are True it highlighted that men can also be abused. I like how Dorothy showed both sides of that.
Omg this book. I don’t know how Dorothy Koomson does it but I am not a massive fan of anyone else doing multiple characters perspective in books but Dorothy does it so well.
It was the book I needed. For me it feels like there will never be an end to Poppy & Serena. They’ll forever be linked because of Marcus. They’ll forever be linked because of bad times they went through. They’ll be linked forever because of what happened between Logan and Verity.
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