📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 False Witness
AUTHOR: Karin Slaughter @karinslaughterauthor
Publisher: William Morrow @williammorrowbooks
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐢
Published: July 20, 2021
The Review 📚 False Witness
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- This book was one of the ones for book club this month. I had never read a Karin Slaughter so I wanted to check one out.
💜 What I liked:
- I really had no idea what to expect. The story follows Leigh and Callie many years after a trauma has caused them to make pretty drastic decisions. Leigh is a lawyer who finds herself defending someone who reminds her of this trauma. Callie is a junkie who is just trying to cope with life. This book is a journey!
😱 What I didn’t like:
- First, this book is long, coming in at 500ish pages. But while it was longer, I was still engaged throughout the whole book. Second, I started trying the audio book first and decided it was not for me as it was hard to listen to situations. Print for me was so much better.
🚦 My face at the end: 🤓
💭 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Past trauma (trigger warning)
- 2. A journey thriller
- 3. Bits of truth revealing
- 4. Engaging situations
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- Leigh and Callie are revisited by the ghosts of their past.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
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📘 Summary 📚 False Witness
Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter.
But Leigh’s ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure … a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence.
On a Sunday night at her daughter’s school play, she gets a call from one of the firm’s partners who wants Leigh to come on board to defend a wealthy man accused of multiple counts of rape. Though wary of the case, it becomes apparent she doesn’t have much choice if she wants to keep her job. They’re scheduled to go to trial in one week. When she meets the accused face-to-face, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. She knows him. And he knows her. More to the point, he may know what happened over twenty years ago, and why Leigh has spent two decades avoiding her past.
Suddenly she has a lot more to lose than this case. The only person who can help is her younger, estranged sister Callie—the last person Leigh would ever want to drag into this after all they’ve been through. But with the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice…