In The Lies That Bind, Emily Griffin writes a story about Cecily Gardner, a journalist from a small town in Wisconsin living in New York City. Cecily writes for a New York City tabloid newspaper. She has been dating a guy named Matthew. When she is ready to take their relationship further, he gets cold feet so she breaks off their relationship. One night she meets another man named Grant and she falls hard for him. Cecily is trusting and naïve. What bothers me the most about her is her inability to assert herself. If Cecily can tell what a person wants to hear, she tells them what they want to hear despite her own discomfort or inconvenience. Not only is Cecily super annoying, the author uses the 9/11 event to tell the story in what I think was a gratuitous and disrespectful manner. By the end of the story Cecily does mature and become less annoying but I don't think it's worth reading this book to find that out.
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