Have you lied? I guess the answer should be yes, lies are too common for the world, people who have never lied, maybe only children who can't speak, or dumb people who can never speak.
We lie for love, lie for hate, lie for like, lie for hate, lie for sincerity, lie for hypocrisy... We have never left a lie, and we rarely face the harm caused by a lie. If you're still lying, there's a good chance you don't know the cost of lying. But they know.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >01/ A sin, a scandal, a forbidden love</h1>
"The Lying Game" tells the story of the friendship and price paid by four close friends who started by lying, as well as the sins and truths that are desperately disguised by lies.
The story starts with a lie. Seventeen years ago, four girls took pleasure in lying, and they agreed not to deceive each other, not to tell lies about each other. For some intimate emotion, Elsa breaks her vows, lying that her friend Kate and Mark have an intimate act. Fueled by rumors, Mark became a disgusting rapist in the mouths of others.
Mark's mother, who is also a local policeman, has been obsessed with the matter, believing that everything is kate's ghost. Until Kate's father disappeared for no reason, she seemed to seize the opportunity and wanted to take revenge on her fiercely. So she kept writing blackmail letters and threatening letters to her, which caused her great pressure.
It was under this pressure that a sin that had been hidden for seventeen years gradually surfaced, involving four girls who had once played a game of lying, a father named Ambrose, and a boy named Luke. The memories are pieced together little by little, the painter Ambrose who was exposed to nude art at that time committed suicide in shame, the four nude model girls affected by the exposure suddenly left the school, and the subsequent scandals about the father's sexual abuse of his daughter in the school and society... This series of events happens one after another, and the evil that the four of them hid together is about to be revealed, until they discover that the truth of Ambrose's death is actually related to the forbidden love between Kate and Luke's brothers and sisters.
If a suspense novel wants to be brilliant, it must not only have a meticulous logic, rigorous structure and appropriate story rhythm, but also inject a certain social topic attraction into the story. There is no doubt that the novel "The Lying Game" already has such conditions.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >02/extremely delicate psychological description</h1>
"The Lying Game" is a psychological novel in general, in which psychological description and reasoning occupy a large part of the space, making the expression of the story more delicate and easier to highlight the character image.
The entire work is based on Elsa's psychological narrative. Elsa has been struggling with herself ever since she received the mysterious "I need you" text message. Her memories seemed to be awakened in an instant, the doors of memory opened, and the joys and intimacy of the past, sin and shame, came out little by little. The lives she had struggled to escape from and hide were about to devour everything she had.
She began to worry about her daughter's safety, she was afraid that if things were revealed, she would lose her job, she encountered her husband's suspicions many times because she could not be honest with the past... The happy life that has been painstakingly built is disintegrating little by little. Seventeen years have passed, and as the book writes, "Lying is no longer a game of life, but a law of survival." "She has never left a lie entirely, and she has never been more deeply aware of the evils of lies and the disruption that could come to her life at any time.
It is this kind of psychological description that drives the development of the plot and finally restores the truth of the matter for us, and it is also this psychological description that shows us a complete female character, showing her complex love for her husband, daughter, and friends, her complex emotions of desperately trying to escape and miss the past, and her deep and struggle between lies and truth. This is the complex emotion that every woman can have when faced with various problems and relationships in life, and in the middle of this emotion, a very complete female character is presented. It is the complete her, and it is also the complete ourselves.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >03/escalating death truth</h1>
"The Lying Game" is a rather slow novel, the author spends a lot of time to set doubts and foreshadowing, he lets us know that these people who appear are all stories, and they must be connected with some kind of evil, but they are slow to tell the reader, which is enough to satisfy the reader's taste. But once the floodgates are opened, the story can't stop like a cocoon until the truth comes out.
At first almost all clues led Ambrose's death to suicide, overdose of drugs, loving suicide notes, and the unconcealed scandals that flooded the campus because of nude art... But in the hearts of the three Elsa, there are still ominous premonitions and unexplained mysteries. Luke, who has a changed temperament, a sheep who dies suddenly, and a note with a threatening note, they want to know what really happened in the first place, and as they cling to these mysteries, the truth gradually surfaces.
Ambrose did not die by suicide, but from murder; it was their best friend who killed Ambrose, his daughter; no, not his daughter, his daughter just to protect another person...
Ruth Weir devised a multi-reversal ending, and the clues she left for this ending were very single, only fragmented memories, and the ambros suicide note, and by reading the suicide note over and over again, recalling the details of that year, Elsa finally read the truth from it. Yes, it was a murder, but it was a murder that a father was willing to die to protect his children.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" >04/In the face of lies, love and sin may be just a line apart</h1>
"The Lying Game" is an exploration of lies and a discussion of love.
How much evil can be committed in the name of love? In order to be with Kate, in order not to let Ambrose send him back to the terrible place of his childhood, and to avoid his hypothetical Ambrose's betrayal of him, Luke killed the only man in the world who loved him with the seeds of doubt and fear that had been planted in his heart as a child.
How deep can goodness be buried in the name of love? Ambrose, knowing that Luke had poisoned him, still did not choose to call for help and call the police, but left a suicide note full of love, hoping that his daughter would protect his son well, hoping that he would not sacrifice in vain, and hoping that his sacrifice today would save his soul that longed for love.
It's just a pity that when this love is intertwined with layers of lies, no one can see a happy ending from it. Someone is destined to carry a lifetime of guilt and can no longer face life calmly. So in the end, Ambrose's kindness ruined him and ruined his two children.
In today's many suspense literature works, are inseparable from the element of "love", we constantly explore love and redemption, but also constantly explore love and sin, love seems to make sin seem to have a touch of human temperature, but still can not avoid blood and cruelty.
Love is irrational, but we still hope to infuse some rational component into it, in the name of love to achieve goodness, tenderness and redemption, just as we always expect more white lies in this world than malicious deception.