Release Blitz & Review: Tell Them Lies by Karla Sorensen

Title: Tell Them Lies

Author: Karla Sorensen

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 8, 2015

Synopsis

Liz Peters hasn’t exactly gotten the happily-ever-after she’s read about in her Jane Austen books. ‘Always a bridesmaid’ is more fitting to the way life has been passing this good girl by. About to go postal from loneliness, she meets a man who doesn’t seem to fit any of her requirements for a book-worthy hero.

Kieran Carter would do just about anything to put a smile on his terminally ill mother’s face. When he meets a woman in the ice cream aisle at the grocery store, Kieran finally has opportunity to do just that. If he needs to lie in order to give his mom a little hope? Not a freakin problem. It all seems so neat and tidy. An arrangement is struck that benefits them both, but when lines get blurry and the guilt of lying to everyone they love becomes too much, neither Liz or Kieran can tell what’s real and what’s for show. And somewhere in the middle is the last person they ever expected to fall in love with.  

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Excerpt

"Besides," she continued, completely oblivious to him doing a running checklist of how much he sucked, "it's not like you're busy with a girl, are you?" Good Lord. He wanted to dig that spoon into his eye so that he didn't need to see that hopeful, searching look in her eye. For years, she'd been dropping hints about grandchildren for shits sake. He hadn't even had a girlfriend, not a real one, for five years. Just, you know, scratching the itch when necessary. And here she was, slowly withering away in front of him, wanting something, anything for him so badly. "I am," he said before he could think twice about it. "Really?" Oh God, forgive him. She looked so happy. "Uh huh. I, uh, didn't want to say anything until I knew she was on the same page as me." And yeah, Blondie from the grocery store had not been on the same page as him. Not the same page, or the same book. Probably not the same bookstore even. And as soon as he'd blurted out those two words that would condemn him to lying to his dear, beloved, sick with cancer mother, it was her face that he saw. Those pale blue eyes that had damn near stabbed into his brain. "Oh, honey. Where you did you two meet?" The eyes that had been clouded with exhaustion about five minutes earlier were bright. Fricken' sparkling. Like diamonds or sapphires or some shit. "The grocery store. She, uhh, she was standing in front of the ice cream, kinda spaced out, you know? And we just got to talking." Lie. Lie, lie, liar, liar, pants on fire. He was going to hell. For sure. He just bought his VIP ticket. "What's she like?" It would have been manly to keep a stoic face and list some random generic traits. But instead, he smiled like a dumbass and just started rambling. "Beautiful. Like, angel-level beautiful. I wasn't even sure she was real when I first saw her standing there. But she's, uhh, she's smart. It was obvious right away. And she gave me shit within like five minutes of meeting her. Which made me act like an ever bigger ass than I normally would." She chuckled. She chuckled and Kieran felt his heart damn near skip. It was one of the best sounds he'd heard in a while.

My Review: 

I have a few (okay a large numbered few) of authors where I wait for their new releases to gobble them up because I know without reading that they will be worth it.  Karla Sorensen is one of those few.  I love the way she tells a story, her writing style is refreshing and engaging. Her characters have a way of pulling you in tightly where it feels they are one of your own personal group and you have a vested interest in things working out for them.  Tell them lies is no different. 

We know Liz from previous books, she's the quiet one, the goodie goodie seeming one, but even surrounded by good people and great friends, Liz finds herself missing out and lonely.  Almost jealous even, not of her friends, but more of what they have found.  

Kieran is struggling, his mom is very sick and he feels helpless to do anything for her. He knows she wants him to find someone to be happy with and someone who will be there for him when she is gone.  So after an interesting meeting with a woman in a grocery store, Kieran lets a little fib loose, and his mother turns excited.  

Convincing Liz to go along with the story he's told his mother goes a little smoother than Kieran expected, but that's about the only thing that is easy about this lie. The rest gets a bit cloudy. 

What I love most about Tell Them Lies is that we see a different side to Liz, an almost buried/hidden side of her that we wouldn't have expected, but makes total sense.  Liz isn't the type to lie or cheat or do anything considered bad/wrong, but her reasons and emotions all fit into this  and show why its not a usual desperate act. 

Of course, nothing is easy, and lines blur, and feelings progress, Liz and Kieran quickly learn that they have so much more on the line than keeping up with the lies they've told.  This story blends so much together, it grips your heart and tugs hard at times.  The characters and their feelings come out in ways unexpected but the story just gets better.  

Tell Them Lies is my favorite Sorensen book, hands down, and that's difficult to say as I have loved them all for different reasons.  Casey won me over quickly, Rachel had my heart from almost the start, but Liz, Liz got right in my face and  demanded that I look deeper, pay more attention and see what I wouldn't have thought possible for her.  

I look forward to what Karla Sorensen brings to the romance book world in the future, and though I am sad to see the end of Rachel, Casey, and Liz's books, I know that I will revisit them in the future when I need a good book to bring me back.  

Well Done, Karla.  WELL DONE! 

About The Author

Well, let's see. I'm a wife and a mother. I'm a writer who wants to make people smile when they read my words. I own a dog that sheds roughly eighteen pounds of hair every day. I am obsessed with Outlander (both the books and the show). I'm almost exclusively a romance reader, which means I will never truly be considered a literary snob. I think that if I could meet one historical figure, it would probably be Jane Austen. I majored in Public Relations and worked in health care marketing before I had my babies. And I hate twitter. I do it, but I hate it.

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