Characterizationįor me, the characters felt over-the-top, as if the author took the most dramatic aspect of their personalities and exaggerated it. In flashbacks, we get the point of view of Heather, a poor but ambitious teen raising her young brother after her parents succumb to addiction. Burke Michaels, her “too good to be true” boyfriend who is handsome, caring, sensitive, and accepting of her compulsions–lying. Skye Starling, a single, beautiful, incredibly wealthy young woman with OCD. The story is told from three points of view.
The times when it was a “hit” were the times when it was less like a thriller and more like a women’s novel. This book, unfortunately, was mostly a miss. My thoughtsĪs I’ve written before, psychological suspense/psychological thrillers are hit-or-miss for me. And just when you think you know where this story is going, you’ll discover that there’s more than one way to spin the truth. But of course, even the best laid plans can go astray. On a collision course she doesn’t see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding planning, as Burke’s scheme grows ever more twisted.
But can her adolescent love stay firmly in her past-or will he find his way into her future? In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he’s happily married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends.
Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips-she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family-she’s also battled crippling OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic relationships have suffered as a result.īut now Burke-handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man she’s met before-says he wants her. Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Too Good to Be True is an obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.
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