Well. This certainly wasn't ONLY mystery/thriller, which is really what I had been hoping. REALLY, the whole "Dreaming" sequences slowed the book down so. much. and in the end felt totally unnecessary. I understand what it added to the book at the end, but really could have gone entirely quicker and I didn't care for them at all. 
 I liked the actual twists and surprises and I think the book could have been so much better without "The Dreaming" but even without that slowing it down, I still don't think I would have been totally in awe. 
 I actually liked the narration and thought it was very interesting! The characters were great and everything was very visual. Just really not what I expected. 
 Full review posted HERE on The Book Addict's Guide 1/26/15: THERE WILL BE LIES was a really different book for me... BUT not quite in the way I had hoped. I went in expecting an exciting mystery/thriller with some possible psychological twists (it seemed like that could be the case based on the title?) but really what I ended up reading was part thriller, part magical realism. I really wish I had known about the magical realism side -- which was a very good chunk of the book. Maybe 30%? More? -- because I actually probably would have passed on it. I am very, very picky about magical realism in books because it often times dances too closely on the line of reality which makes it unbelievable to me. In the very beginning of the book, I was actually really interested. It sort of held a Donnie Darko feel to it which really pulled me in but then the cut-aways to the magical realism scenes... just really hard for me to get through. 
 That being said, I really did like the thriller aspect of THERE WILL BE LIES. Shelby's fate is essentially told to her (through the magical realism deal here) that "there will be lies" -- two lies and then one truth that will change her life forever. Believing that to be true, Shelby embarks upon a mission to figure out what these lies (and truth) might be and it really does take her down a path that she never expected -- and one I didn't expect either! The story was really quite interesting and there were actually a couple of hooks I didn't see coming which was really fun to read. 
 The style of writing was very unique as well. The dialogue was written a bit differently (in italics instead of quotation marks) and it tripped me up ever-so-slightly when I first started reading, but it also added a different feel to the book somehow, which I actually ended up enjoying. Later on in the book, the readers find out exactly why the book is written so differently and it was something that I thought was very impressive! 
 Overall the mystery/thriller side of the book did intrigue me and keep me interested, but every single cut-away to this magical realism side totally took away from my reading experience and once I got to the last portion and I saw why it was included, it felt totally unnecessary. At least to me, it felt like a series of dream sequences or something along the lines of Shelby working things out in her subconscious, and it was something I really felt that I would have connected with more if I had read it as a stream of consciousness or dialogue that she worked out with either herself or someone else. I wonder what my experience with this book would have been like had it not been for those elements. I think I could have enjoyed it so much more!