Title: This Much is True
Author: Katherine Owen
Series: Truth in Lies #1
Release Date: August 11th 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
Summary: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.
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.
The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (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.)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (My current writerly crush. A love story? Yes, pretty much the worst kind, due to hyper reality)
April & Oliver by Tess Callahan (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!)
Falling Under by Danielle Younge-Ullman (This inspired me to try my hand at a broken character. Loved this story. Loved it!)
The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (The sole guy on the list. This story still haunts me. Loved it!)
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay (Memorable writing. Some of the best lines I have ever read in my life are in this book.)
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons (Whenever I think I write long, I think of The Bronze Horseman and the follow-up books of Simons’. Incredible journey. Loved it!)
Reason To Breathe by Rebecca Donovan (Angsty, yet believable storyline and a sympathetic heroine.)
Unteachable by Leah Raeder (Her descriptions of time and place are poetic. Raeder is a masterful storyteller.)
The Opportunist by Tarryn Fisher (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 complex, angst-filled characters in Fisher’s first book, The Opportunist.
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."
This Much is True #1
The Truth About Air and Water #2
KOBO / ITUNES / GOODREADS TBR
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Gone Girl was such a well crafted book! I enjoyed the movie too but it doesn't compare to the book imo. I also am a big fan of The Sea of Tranquility!! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks for featuring my novel, This Much Is True, on your lovely blog. It was so fun to list my top ten favorite reads, too. Thanks!
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