Little Lies by Lila Bruce

Little Lies
by Lila Bruce
Pages: 228
Date: October 14 2016
Publisher: Self
Series: None

Review
Rating: 3.00
Read: November 17 to 19 2016

It is hard to write something when I went on 'vacation' some point between reading this book and the time to try to write something.

Probably doesn't mean anything, but my 3 rating here now moves this author into 1 position way from 'hitting' all the possible stars. My take on the author is all over place. Four books read by them now, and 1 was 2 stars, 1 was 3 stars, 1 was 4 stars, and 1 was 5 stars. As I said, probably doesn't mean anything. Except that I'll probably be more tentative about trying my next book by this author.

Cover - Before, during, and now - seeing that cover? I imagine that the book will be, is, and was a western. That cover would be perfect for a Annie Oakley type (not Annie Oakley herself, as she didn't use a pistol, had long 'largish' hair (well the real one, not the who turned up in movies and the like - who, oddly, looks like a match to the cover here (other than color of hair).



Right, so - a woman long long ago had, in a fit of whatever married a guy. Almost immediately divorcing him. Amicable split. Though she hasn't seen him in a longish time and only then because that guy's grandmother had died. She hasn't see him in a long time, doesn't know what he did with himself after they split, and has no clue where he is located or how to contact him - they have no remaining connections.

The book opens with that specific woman resting on the ground in a bank. Because she was shot - by bank robbers. She is helped by a woman who happened to be there - a woman she recognizes from seeing her at a coffee shop. That woman helps slow/stop the bleeding and helps keep her alive.

Unknown to shot woman, Lia Broddock, the 'helper woman', Dylan McKenzie, is actually Special Agent Dylan McKenzie - an FBI agent whose 'target' is Lia Broddock - as in, she's been assigned to watch her in case that woman's ex-husband just happens to stumble nearby.

The ex-husband's been a bad boy - he went to work as an accountant for a specific firm and somewhere along the way picked up a specific special client - the head of a mob family.

For 'reasons', that guy, the ex-husband I mean, had looked at two people on his internet before going into hiding - which is why the FBI was/is watching Lia. Specifically Dylan and a man named 'Brock'.

That whole FBI thing was super weird - the boss was always screaming at Dylan, and the partner is a smug bastard (yet, for unknown reasons, Dylan seems to still respect and like both). Apparently the boss would have preferred that Dylan have let Lia die instead of helping her when she got shot - at least that's the impression I got from the screaming. That boss, Henry (or was it Harry?) sure seems incompetent - I mean, the FBI wish to know where that ex-husband guy is because he has information that will help take down a crime family. Someone who isn't a suspect for anything, other than a potential source of information on that ex-husband. And instead of seeing it as a good thing that an FBI agent has successfully injected themselves into the 'target's life, he instead sees it as this super bad thing that should never have happened. And has to be talked into taking advantage of the situation that has developed - the situation of having an FBI agent get close.

The characterization for both lead women is odd - there's a kind of rich/poor dynamic that gets built up but . . . neither of them actually are poor; neither of them are 'resting' on money - neither are living a live of high expense or luxury. Yet there's still that dynamic there. What with Lia constant squeaks of surprise when she learns of Dylan's 'rich' background - not in a 'what is a rich person doing as an FBI agent' but in a 'what is this rich person doing near me?' - yet, Lia herself seems to not care particularly about money - I mean, she herself was married to a guy who apparently was the only living relative to two people who had mounds of cash. She's been around money. Bah. Again bah. It's hard to think about that I could possible be meaning here. mmphs.

Okay then - I've babbled incoherently long enough - book was okay, nothing overly great about it. Couple of moments of annoyance felt by me about the events occurring. I would neither recommend nor not recommend this book. It was . . . there and I read it and now it is done.

November 20 2016