Definitely one of my favorites not only from this author but for the year as well! Full review to come closer to release date.*EDITED TO ADD REVIEW:4.5 Stars! became a huge Jennifer Lynn Barnes fan after reading her Naturals series and then even more so after her Fixer series so it was with little hesitation that I accepted a copy of her latest book. I knew that if anyone could blow me away with a good mystery in the YA genre, it would be her and I wasn't wrong at all. Sometimes you can pick up

Why won't anyone pay me half a million dollars to do nothing? This book is very bizarre and very forgettable at the same time. Nothing about it makes any sense at all. Why was Sawyer even involved? Nobody was forced to pay her an insane amount of money to live in a mansion and do nothing. She dressed up. She got a manicure. And for what? What is the purpose of this debutante ball? I thought debs were supposed to get married at the end. But, at the finale of this book, almost nothing had changed

Sawyer is a sassy, no nonsense kind of girl who, through a deal with her grandmother, is thrown into the glittering world of high society as a debutante. I picked up Little White Lies expecting an okay read. Jennifer Lynn Barnes exceeded my expectations by delivering a mystery with a side of revenge and blackmail, sprinkled with a bit of humor from time to time. I enjoyed this book a lot. It lacked the over descriptive scenes of violence that I have grown use to in a lot of mysteries I have read...

Fun and fast paced. Loved the "fish out of water" premise and the emphasis on family and friendship over romance. Plot in a nutshell: Wayward daughter of a fancy Southern family gets pregnant as a teenager and years later, her own teen daughter, a mechanic and bar employee, gets bribed by her grandmother to re-enter the family as a deb. Hilarious makeover scenes ensue.My only negative is that I thought the pacing felt off. Things moved at a leisurely (Southern? lol) pace for some time and then t...

I've been meaning to pick up a book by Jennifer Lynn Barnes FOR YEARS. She's one of those authors I've been standing and staring at through the bookstore's glass window, but just never managed to get my hands on one. Then, I stumbled across Little White Lies and the rest was history. I decided it was time to indulge in some YA insanity with backstabbing girls, and it was worth it. This book is a hoot!Sawyer gets drafted by her Grandma to join her in debutante land, for a lovely exchange of some

After finishing Little White Lies, I can't decide if it's really worth the 4 star rating. This was a book that I was fully engrossed in. I was engrossed in this drama, which was ridiculous most of the time. This felt like a train wreck that you know you should look or walk away from, but instead you're still there just watching. Sawyer Taft never thought she would be roped into the world of debutantes, but when her grandmother mysteriously shows up and offers her six-figures contract to appear,

While this was a fun read, it could have easily been shaved down by 25%. The bloated nature gave it a feeling of dragging on, and I think the story could have benefitted from being a bit shorter to give it more of a taut feeling. That said, I adored Sawyer and her journey while being thrown into a world that makes her feel uncomfortable and a little bit like an outcast. This definitely felt like a standalone version of Pretty Little Liars, but much more tame and age appropriate for the younger s...

Mini review:DNF I received this E-ARC via Disney Hyperion and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Jennifer Lynn Barnes is one off the many authors whose works' I have been trying to get into. Partly because of the heroine in The Fixer. I have come to accept that this isn't an author for me.What intrigued me was the synopsis. A mystery whilst taking place during a debutante? Sign me up! The beginning was interesting if a tab bit cringy. The first chapter did genuinely creep me out. The gr...

I bought this one a whim from Amazon. I had seen it floating around goodreads, but don't remember if I read many reviews for it. Maybe it was part of the giveaways? *shrugs* Thought maybe one of my friends had read it but nope.. someone I follow does so most likely it was from her.. but aah well.This one kept surprising me. When I thought I had a piece figured out, it would twist itself and become something different. A couple times, that got turned on its head too.I go with the flow most times

[3.5/5 stars] Jennifer Lynn Barnes is one of my favorite writers for her intelligent, almost interactive writing style. She’s an author I trust to take me on a wild ride and keep me guessing the entire way. Little White Lies had all of those great components (even if it was a little more lighthearted than I’m used to reading from her) topped off with some good old southern charm… and snark.I have to say, the story took a while to get going. I never read more than the first one or two sentences o...

I am a sucker for anything with debutantes, so I was all over this book when I saw the synopsis. I loved Sawyer. She’s sassy and sarcastic and it was a blast being in her head while all of this unfolded. There’s quite a group of characters here and even though I loved all of the girls, I think Boone stole every scene he was in and I could easily read a million pages of him and Sadie-Grace. Plot wise, it was captivating. I loved the “present” scenes intermingled with with “past” scenes. It was a

I would usually steer away from books about Debutante balls and the drama that might accompany such events, but Little White Lies is written by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, so instead it became one of my most anticipated reads of 2018. And it did not disappoint. Only Barnes could create such a setting and accompany it with breathless tension and mystery, expertly combined with humour and good old insult-laden compliments. Sawyer Taft has never known who her father is - her mother refused to speak of hi...

Sawyer is a feisty "anti-Debutante". The internal dialogue is often hilarious, but this probably should have been two books (i.e., the Dreaded Serial!). The shifting time lines messed me up a bit, and the ending was a bit- odd - what with the twist within the twist. I got the impression that the author might have changed the ending so that it wouldn't be so predictable? But I could be very wrong, there. Actually, I suspect that this is a part of a series, hence the cliffhangers with Nick and a f...

Sawyer lives with her inconsistent mother, barely scraping by. Then her aristocratic grandmother Lillian makes an offer the eighteen-year-old can hardly refuse—spend the debutant season living with her grandmother and she’ll receive half a million dollars. Sawyer doesn’t expect to find a same age cousin who will become a friend, another friend and a frenemy or a mystery about her paternity.I didn’t expect to enjoy LITTLE WHITE LIES as much as I did. Jennifer Lynn Barnes gave Sawyer such a sharp,...