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Title: His Truth Her Truth Author: Noelle Holten
Format reviewed: Ebook
Source: Netgalley
Publisher: One More Chapter
Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Rating: 4 Stars
An anonymous call raises the alarm. Two bodies found as a result of a home invasion. Then the police see the knives.
One in his hand.
One in hers.
Joe and Beth appeared to have the perfect relationship. But there are two sides to every story.
His truth. Her truth. And the actual truth.
In this web of lies, only one person can be telling the truth, can’t they?
The first part of this book was really slow but its needed to set up what was a fairly unputdownable second half of the book which is where everything hotted up.
I picked this book to read purely based on the author, as I've enjoyed her books in the past, and thus didn't really register the title, nor look at the blurb, which led to me reading a book featuring multiple unreliable narrators.
And frustratingly I'm just not keen on this level of unreliability, I was never really sure what I was meant to be believe, or what I should believe but what I did know is that I wasn't overly keen on Joe or Beth for different reasons.
Although I wasn't keen on them as people, they were very real and I could understand a lot of their feelings. Both had a fair bit of depth to them, and Beth in particular is on medication for many things, and the descriptions of her mental state were certainly interesting.
The more I got to know Beth, i did start to at least feel sorry for her, whereas I struggled to find redeeming features for Joe - he's not evil or anything, I just didn't take to him.
I was definitely intrigued from the prologue and it motivated me to keep reading to discover just how the situation in it came to fruition, and then I had to know who did it. As I say the second part of the book, after the attack was brilliant, and I ended up reading most of the last section of the book in one sitting.
Was a book of two halves for me, I'm very glad I kept reading, and anything I was less keen on was purely a me thing, the book itself was good And if you love unreliable narration, this is definitely one to look out for!
Thank you to One More Chapter and Netgalley for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily.