{"id":18280,"date":"2017-05-02T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2017-04-30T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:22:22","slug":"review-lux-and-lies-by-meg-collett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=18280","title":{"rendered":"#Review #NewRelease – Lux and Lies (Whitebird Chronicles, #1) by Meg Collett"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mr. Robot meets UnReal in a story of celebrities and anarchists, reality shows and evil corporations, romance and self-discovery.<\/p>\n

Nineteen-year-old Wren Iver is nothing more than a dying girl with cancer, but when megastar Sloan Lux dies right before filming starts on the year\u2019s most anticipated reality show, producers scramble to secretly replace her\u2014with Wren. She\u2019s swept into Hollywood and promised a cure by VidaCorp, the nation\u2019s richest pharmaceutical company, for simply replacing Lux. It\u2019s a deal Wren can\u2019t refuse.<\/p>\n

The decision could get her killed, because she isn\u2019t the only cast member with ulterior motives.<\/p>\n

The Whitebirds, a social anarchist group, has infiltrated the show, and they\u2019ll stop at nothing to use Sloane Lux\u2019s fame to derail VidaCorp\u2019s efforts to legalize their controversial, life-changing drug\u2014a drug that might kill more people than it saves. Caught in the middle of a game between a powerful corporation and ruthless anarchist group, Wren will do anything to survive.<\/p>\n

Will Wren secure the drug she needs to survive, or will she become another casualty in the anarchists\u2019 fight against VidaCorp?<\/p>\n

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I was sucked in right from the beginning. This is a futuristic type thriller with twists in the story that will keep you guessing what is going to happen. Nothing about what is going on in the story is normal, in the best possible way. Wren is sick with lung cancer and is dying with no cure in sight. She rolls with all the other poverty stricken people in her area when all of sudden the tides change. She is given the opportunity of a lifetime….to survive. VidaCorp is going to cure her and all she has to do is replace Sloane Lux. Sounds easy, right? Lux is the biggest star of her lifetime. She is placed into the unreal world of Hollywood where everyone is watching you. She is training to be Lux and is brought into this crazy, intense world. She is given the enormous task of not only being Lux, but also is trying to find out who the insider is with the Whitebirds (a gang that has been after VidaCorp) as they have infiltrated this world. After many lies have been thrown around in this intricately carved society, there are also many truths that come forward. Some of these truths are absolutely unthinkable and the lies that have been strung throughout them are super intense. All throughout the story I kept thinking “this is the best twist” but then there is another turn. It’s like playing CLUE. Constantly trying to figure out who did it and how. I never saw the ending coming. Which in my eyes is one of the most important things about a story. Constantly kept me on the edge of my seat guessing. Cannot wait to see what happens with our girl, Wren!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Meg<\/p>\n

Meg Collett is from the hills of Tennessee where the cell phone service is a blessing and functioning internet is a myth of epic proportions. She and her husband live in a tiny house with three dogs and not enough couches. She\u2019s the author of the bestselling Fear University series, the End of Days trilogy, and the Canaan Island novels. Find out more at her website www.megcollett.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Mr. Robot meets UnReal in a story of celebrities and anarchists, reality shows and evil corporations, romance and self-discovery. Nineteen-year-old Wren Iver is nothing more than a dying girl with cancer, but when megastar Sloan Lux dies right before filming starts on the year\u2019s most anticipated reality show, producers scramble to secretly replace her\u2014with Wren. … Continue reading #Review #NewRelease – Lux and Lies (Whitebird Chronicles, #1) by Meg Collett<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40,532,51],"tags":[716],"class_list":["post-18280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopian","category-fantasy","category-new-release","tag-meg-collett"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-4KQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}