To start off, this book presented a few challenges for me. I hesitated to pick it up because of the entire premise. I love historical fiction, but the Salem witch trials never really did it for me. I always found the delirium around those event so unappealing. The events in Father of Lies were interesting in a different way than the usual paranoia. Lidda is so different than the other girls who are claiming witchcraft. She sees them as being attention-seeking, and using their power to gain some kind of control over the rigid lives they lead. Lidda is also suffering from her own personal demons. While her condition is revealed in the Author's Note at the end of the book, it seems to overtake her so completely that it ties in easily to the rest of the events in the rest of the book. I found this book interesting but not necessarily my cup of tea. Lidda is a sympathetic character, but I think that if the author had limited her involvement to doubting the other girls, the novel would have been just as potent. I think her issues are an interesting but unnecessary plot twist. My rating: 3.5 out of 5 Very good read, finished it in about a day in a half because I couldn't put it down. It was a very interesting take on historical fiction set during the Salem Witch Trials. It would have been 5 stars except the ending was a bit anti-climaticSpoiler: I was very tempted to read ahead and find out just who Lucien was. He started out sounding like the devil or something else and was waiting for his character to develop.I was getting wrapped up in anticipation, hoping the author was going to explain his as other worldly being or spirit,so I was bum to find out that he was just a hallucination due to Lidda being Bipolar, or was he? Rats, I was hoping it could have ended in a fantasy like twist. Also there should have been more at the end like an epilogue. I want to know what happens to Lidda after she flees Salem.
What do You think about Father Of Lies (2011)?
Not a good as I was hoping, but not bad either!
—darkangel083
