Our enemies are all around us, ready to take what is ours. But you can't let them. Once you've lost what belongs to you- your belief, your faith, your land- you've lost everything. 
 Thank you, Netgalley for blessing me with this perfection. 
 Have you ever read a book that was so good that you felt compelled to run to the highest point in the universe & yell to everyone "READ THIS BOOK RIGHT NOW!" and throw a million copies out to everyone? Because that is exactly how I'm feelin' right about now. 
 First of all, Emily Carpenter, thank you SO much for reminding me why Psychological Thrillers are my absolute favorite genre! It isn't easy to write something that will leave readers saying "OMG" every. single. chapter. But you have mastered it, beautifully! The cliffhangers at the end of each chapter made me not ever want to put the book down! I seriously wish it would never end. 
 The book begins with Meg Ashley, AKA daughter of Frances Ashley, world renowned novelist of the best-selling book, "Kitten". Determined to get payback for all the years Frances has pushed her to the side & publish her own tell-all, Meg travels from New York to Georgia to begin her own research on her mother's famous novel. The only problem, she gets much more than she ever could have bargained for and is thrust into a world of betrayal, secrets (and a TON of them), deception and a mysterious neuropathy... 
 The only reason I didn't finish this book in a day is because I'm not allowed to have my tablet out at work.. Boooooo.. It was the most difficult thing to put down! I'm so serious. I'm so glad I was able to get a copy of this book! It is absolutely my most favorite read of 2017, thus far, and any book to top this one will have to be an exceptionally damn good one. 
 The book, "the Weight of Lies" alternates between chapters with "Kitten", which is one of the best parts about the book. It isn't like you're just told, "Frances Ashley wrote this really good book. Take our word for it." but you actually get to glimpse into it, and it follows the storyline of "the Weight of Lies" so perfectly that it's almost like you're reading two perspectives of similar situations, just years apart from one another. It would be badass if there was some kind of virtual follow-along through the book with insights from the Kitty-Cultists websites or theories. 
 Meg did kind of annoy me in parts at how willing she was to trust these random people, yet so unwilling to trust her own mother. I guess that's just how she was raised to feel- as though she was always a second-to-none option to Frances, but geeeeeeeezzzz, Meg! 
 This was the first book I've ever read by Emily Carpenter, and I dare say, it will NOT be the last! I've already downloaded "the Honeysuckle Girls" and I'm so excited to read it! I also think it's awesome that she is from Alabama (Emily, if you ever read this, 
 please have a book tour/signing in Alabama! 
 Last, but not least, I ship Meg & Koa so hard that I feel like I know them personally