Worth Lying For [Kindle Edition]

Lisa Cheney (Author), Lisa Craig (Author), Danielle Sellers (Illustrator)

Book Description

GOOD LIFE
Mary Minke knows she should be grateful: a mostly happy marriage, mostly grown kids and a mostly steady paycheck. But at forty, she finds herself fantasizing about sprawling Tuscan villas and fitting into 'juniors department' fashions. Instead, another twenty years in a two-bedroom ranch, sale-rack slacks and a receptionist job at Idid-a-Rod Auto Garage seem to be her destiny. Until...

GOOD GRIEF
Mary stumbles on a bag of cash in the car of two-bit drug dealer Jimmy Adler... and steals it. Confiding in best friend, Caryn, she vows to make good by playing Robin Hood in the sleepy town of Stillwater Village. Only she must keep the plan under wraps from devoted husband, Nick, who just happens to be the local sheriff.

GOOD INTENTIONS
As one unexpected event after another turns Mary's once tapioca-bland life hotter than three-alarm chili, she is more than a little tempted to indulge in a few retail therapy sessions. Charity begins at home, after all, but where should it end? When the fate of her imperfect yet loving family is put on the line, Mary must decide what the good life really means, and if it is Worth Lying For.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Co-authors in different states who write hen-lit novels and talk on the phone, rarely using our indoor voices for either.

Product Details

• File Size: 372 KB
• Print Length: 267 pages
• Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1475174608
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B007OXLF0U
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #358,161 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great writing, real characters April 5, 2012

By raincow

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I bought this book after seeing it on Facebook being touted by a friend of the author. I'm a fan of indies, so I decided to check it out. I'm going to try and not put any spoilers out there (which means this will be short and sweet!)

First, I'll say that I liked the writing a LOT. These authors know their stuff when it comes to dialogue that's real and pretty funny in lots of places. They chose to create a character who is as real as could be. She's not perfect but she's smart. She's in a long standing marriage with early twenty something daughters who have their own issues. I liked the way the protagonist grew personally throughout the book (would have liked to see it emphasized more, even). I was smiling a lot as I read the inner dialogue of Mary. I'd like to hang out with her. She's got a sharp wit and kind heart. The pacing was a bit slow for me, but I'm into fantasy and thrillers usually, so chicklit or literary fiction is a good fit for this book.

I loved the ending. I'm a sucker for happy endings and this one didn't disappoint.

I would read more by these authors and would recommend this book to someone who likes lovable REAL forty-something characters.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Quick read, witty dialogue April 17, 2012

By JacksonNana

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Despite some disparaging remarks about crocheting (they couldn't have picked on knitters instead?) I found this book really entertaining. The hot tub scene had me lmao! Talented writers, fabulous book.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, funny and realistic April 17, 2012

By Lisa Crouso Shiroff

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This book is a great read. It has heart and humor, style and substance. Mary is such a realistic character, I feel like I know her. She's funny, witty and perfectly flawed, like the rest of us. The book starts out with her feeling stuck, as many of us moms have felt at one time or another, in a mundane, routine life. So stuck, that she impulsively does something that's completely out of character and then for the rest of the book, she must find a way to reconcile her actions, fix the problem she's created, and still juggle her life as mom, wife, friend, and receptionist at I-Did-A-Rod auto repair. Throughout it all she grows and in the end, finds a way to have a more fulfilling and fun life.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Boring! August 1, 2012

By gmt

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If you want to read hundreds of pages about a woman trying to find new hiding places for a bag full of stolen money, fighting with her children and obsessing about shoes, then this book is for you. I do not know why I even continued to read it to the end. I was hoping something fun and/or exciting might actually happen - I was mistaken.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A little slow at first but ended well February 22, 2013

By maruss

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This was about a pretty boring middle age woman with no willpower at giving away money that was not her's, no willpower at byeing shoes she couldn't afford, no concern about putting her husband's job in jeopardy, and no thought for her family's safety because she took the money. She became a little more interesting as the story progressed.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and fun... May 18, 2012

By C. M. Donaldson

Format:Kindle Edition

I was pleasantly surprised that for a chick-lit story this book had guts. Mary lives a somewhat humdrum life with the usual problems of a long-term marriage, a boring thankless job and equally thankless grown-up daughters, and she wonders where her thrift-shop life will lead. Until, that is, she finds a bag with a huge amount of money and everything changes. The story then picks up pace, quite humorously at times, and Mary, as ordinary as the next person, is depicted rather cleverly by the authors as someone you would want to know. Her thought-processes are many and apt and you can't put this book down. The story is all about the money and how she deals with the situations that crop up because of it. I like the little twists which made sure this story wasn't predictable. I really rooted for Mary and I am happy to recommend this book to others who like a cozy read with twists, unexpected occurrences and many impromtu laughs thrown in. The style of writing is commendable.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Snappy! May 6, 2012

By M. Surani

Format:Kindle Edition

The best part about this book is the fun, sassy dialogue. Of course, who wouldn't want to find a bag of money and have their way with it? In my case, it probably will never happen, so this novel provided the perfect vicarious living. Made me want to try on some ridiculously expensive shoes. In NYC, I could probably make that happen.

I appreciated the way Mary, the protagonist, dealt with the consequences of her actions. Raised some interesting questions that left me thinking.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Middle kind of dragged. January 21, 2013

By Nikki W.

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Yeah, it started out pretty good for me. The main character, Mary, was in her car when she notices her dream car pull up along side her. She recognizes the owner as someone she went to school with who's a bit on the sleazy side. She happens to notice a bag full of money on his passenger seat and before she realizes what she's doing she has it in her car and she's driving off.

Like I said, started with a bang. However, just after that it starts to fizzle. The middle to end starts dragging and I'd be reading several pages before I realized I wasn't even paying attention. I didn't really miss much. So slow and annoying. I didn't like Mary's children or and her husband was a bit rude as well. I mean, he didn't really talk to her, he didn't really have her back in their children's situations.

Mary and her friend kind of blamed the money for some bad situations that happened. I'm pretty sure they can be chalked up to coincidences. I would have preferred the story to move along a bit faster.

It wasn't my favorite. I thought it had promise but it just disappointed me. To be honest, I had to look up the main characters name because I couldn't even remember it.