Review: When Your Past Catches Up With Your Present...
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 18, 2012
The Truth About UsByDalene  FlannaganBrief summary...Three women...Grace, Erica and Jude...the unfolding mystery of an event that happened in college years ago.  Chapters alternate among all three and their past and present stories.My thoughts...Addictive from the start...I love books that get more intense with each page.  Each woman was uniquely different,  each woman had major issues and each woman knew what happened and was invested big time  in this drama.Erica is a mom...trying to deal with her husband's affair.  Jude is born again...the  weirdest and  my least favorite.  Grace...probably the most complex and perhaps  more of a victim than Erica and Jude.What I loved was the story...and the fast paced writing and the short alternating chapters and the mystery that is revealed bit by bit...layer by layer.The writing is pure and honest and very compelling.Grace is sad and sweet...gawky, tall and not the popular girl in school...moved so many times by her mother that she is forever the new girl.  Her story was the sad sweet one.  Erica...strong and competent but shattered by her husband's infidelity...yet managing to hold everyone together.  Jude...oh I wish I liked her...I wish I had sympathy for her but she was just odd...not nice...blinded by a misguided faith?This book...with all of its wondrously flawed characters was unputdownable.  Once I started it I could not stop.It was awesome women's fiction...with just the right amount of flawed unique characters.