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Read Between the Lies by Jesse Q. Sutanto

​ “Fern Huang is finally going to achieve her dream of being a published author. She's worked hard to heal from the traumatic bullying she endured at the hands of Haven Lee in high school, a girl who swooped in and stole Fern's best friend, Dani and made Fern's life miserable. She also blames Haven for Dani's suicide, something that's affected Fern deeply. When she joins a debut authors group on Facebook/Slack and finds out that Haven also has a book debuting, her whole world comes crashing down. Add the COVID pandemic and the whole nation going on lockdown to the mix and Fern's obsession with Haven takes on stalkerish, unhealthy and frankly disturbing proportions. The message that no one is truly innocent, that we all have secrets and also, be very careful what you post on Social Media, since you never know how your words might be used against you were all true but in the end, the characters were obnoxious, the constant posts of, "OMG, srsly, whaaat, nooo,...