This Much is True by Katherine Owen
(Truth in Lies #1)
Publication date: August 11th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Synopsis:
Both on the verge of fame. A ballerina who lies. A baseball player who believes her. Well, the truth changes everything.
Tally Landon is just trying to survive the death of her twin sister, graduate from high school, and escape her tragic story by pursuing her ballet career in New York. She doesn’t count on Lincoln Presley, Stanford’s baseball wonder, to affect her at all. Adding him to a long list of one-night stands is the plan. Lying to him about her age and name is her standard method of operandi. She doesn’t count on being found out, on seeing him again, or falling in love.
Lincoln Presley’s life is all mapped out for him. There is only baseball. With Major League Baseball circling their favorite prospect with a lucrative offer, he cannot afford to mess up. And, he doesn’t; until he meets up with the girl he saved in that burning wreckage on the 101 on Valentine’s Day months before. By the time he learns her real name and of all the lies she’s told, he’s in far too deep to ever really let her go.
Fate has a different set of plans, but when fame and lies tear them apart, one truth remains.
PURCHASE:
PURCHASE BOOK 2:
Top 10
Angsty Love Stories
Thanks so much for having me on your blog and featuring This Much Is True.
Here is my top ten list of angsty love stories, as in, filled with angst, not whining…besides
mine.
(She broke all the rules in writing this love story. She’s an inspiration to me as a writer for technique and owning the story
however it needs to be told.)
(My current writerly crush. A love story? Yes, pretty much the
worst kind, due to hyper reality)
(An early inspiration for me as a writer. This story stays
with me. Whenever I feel I’m writing too much angst I remember the story of April &
Oliver. Loved it!)
(This inspired me to try my hand at a broken
character. Loved this story. Loved it!)
(The sole guy on the list. This story still haunts me.
Loved it!)
(Memorable writing. Some of the best lines I have
ever read in my life are in this book.)
(Whenever I think I write long, I think of The
Bronze Horseman and the follow-up books of Simons’. Incredible journey. Loved it!)
(Angsty,
yet believable storyline and a sympathetic heroine.)
(Her descriptions of time and place are poetic. Raeder is a
masterful storyteller.)
(She takes risks with her writing and I love and admire
that.) I read this book after I wrote This Much Is True based upon a
couple bloggers’ reviews of This Much Is True that compared my writing
style and the angsty characters to Fisher’s book, The Opportunist.
AUTHOR BIO:
Katherine Owen writes contemporary edgy fiction, which translates to: she writes love stories that are contemporary in setting and both edgy and dark. Some readers term her books emotional roller coasters. With her writing, Owen admits she has a fondness for angst, likes to play with a little drama, and essentially toys around with the unintentional complications of love. She contends this began early on when she won a poetry contest at the age of fourteen and appears to be without end. Owen has an avid love of coffee, books, and writing, but not necessarily in that order. She writes both Contemporary Romance and New Adult fiction which includes her bestselling TRUTH IN LIES Series (a series despite despising 'series') beginning with This Much Is True and her latest release, The Truth About Air & Water. The TRUTH IN LIES series is fan-driven. So. There will be a third book about Linc and Tally released in 2015 titled Tell Me Something True.
About Owen's fiction...This is NOT the light trope stuff. She travels a unique, writerly path and enjoys writing dark and angsty (a "non-word" she is fond of) emotional love stories. She often warns readers to be prepared with: time, tissues, wine, Advil or your drug of choice. And, as her most favored character, Lincoln Presley, would say, "do what you must, Princess."
Thanks for hosting today, Rhomy! :)
ReplyDeleteYW! It sounds like a great book!
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