Review: The Accomplice by Lisa Lutz

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The Accomplice

by Lisa Lutz

Narrated by Lisa Flanagan

Thanks to Ballantine Books and PRHAudio for this book.

Publisher: PRHAudio
Publish Date: January 25, 2022
Audiobook
8 hours
Standalone
Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense

Everyone has the same questions about best friends Owen and Luna: What binds them together so tightly? Why weren't they ever a couple? And why do people around them keep turning up dead? In this riveting novel from the 'New York Times' best-selling author of 'The Passenger', every answer raises a new, more chilling question.

Owen Mann is charming, privileged, and chronically dissatisfied. Luna Grey is secretive, cautious, and pragmatic. Despite their differences, they begin forming a bond the moment they meet in college. Their names soon become indivisible — Owen and Luna, Luna and Owen — and stay that way even after an unexplained death rocks their social circle.

They're still best friends years later, when Luna finds Owen's wife brutally murdered. The police investigation sheds some light on long-hidden secrets, but it can't penetrate the wall of mystery that surrounds Owen. To get to the heart of what happened and why, Luna has to dig up the one secret she's spent her whole life burying.

'THE ACCOMPLICE' examines the bonds of shared history, what it costs to break them, and what happens when you start wondering if you ever truly knew the only person who truly knows you.

My Review:

Finally! A book where the leads are friends that don't turn into lovers. REJOICE! Luna is quite the character with her idiosyncrasies and past traumas. But I do so love her attitude and how the author shows that typical sway of how men are interested in those who just don't give is a shit over a girl is way too over available. Le sigh.

But alas, do YOU like people? Here's the question that starts their entire friendship and I was riveted... until I wasn't. I love that suspenseful feel we get through the entire read but I think I was expecting that beat to drop and when it came down to what should've felt like an explosive part, it just kinda fizzled. I think the ending may have tried a little too much. *shrug*

This is my third by this author and I would absolutely recommend The Swallows as it is currently my favorite by Lutz. This, and the Passengers, were fun reads and Lutz does a fantastic job of bringing the reader in. Unfortunately, I felt the air go out of this balloon with this ending.

Friendships, family trauma, secrets... it's all in here. If you prefer the character driven part where we learn about Luna and Owen and how their friendship develops and maintains over time, I'd definitely recommend this. If you're looking for explosive twists that leave your head spinning... well, it's not going to happen here.

★★★