When Adam is found dead in a swimming pool, Lily fears someone was out to get him - and she may be next. But as both their lives and careers move on, Lily and Adam are never too far apart and with a ringside seat to Adam’s death and growing suspicions about who wanted him out of the way, Lily turns detective.

But when Adam winds up dead in a swimming pool, Lily is the only person who cares enough to find out why. Whether it’s a family tradition, peer pressure, or overbearing parents – fame can be equal to success, regardless of the cost.

Cocksure Adam is a flawed character, an addict and a game playing master of manipulation with a goodie bag of drugs as big as his ego. Nothing about the tawdry world or largely shallow characters that occupy Adam and Lily’s world appealed to me in the slightest, yet despite this I found myself unable to set the book aside without knowing if Adam’s death was an accident or foul play. Having read The Favour, I thought I knew the author’s thought process and where this story was heading but I was way off the mark.

Her stuttering acting career appears to be on the mend, but she'll have to put up with their poisonous relationship. Nothing is what it seems, but the author of Let’s Pretend develops it naturally, without the need for gimmicks and sharp twists. A chance meeting with an old school friend is possibly the best thing to happen to Lily, or so she thinks but as she settles in the role of Adam’s partner. This is definitely acts as a reminder too that you can never know what truly goes on in a relationship unless you are in it; contrary to what the press would have you read! The other characters are also complex creations, with their awareness of social media, and in the case of Nina, celebrity gossip, as a force in their success or failure.Act three is an extraordinary display of storytelling and most captivating execution that will leave you literally out of breath. Her motivations throughout are deliberately vague - this is a thriller which twists and turns around the central idea of a fake romance with real impact. How you look the choices you make in life can direct your future, people who seem to have it all really happy, on top of the world behind closed doors living in sin. Lily is a complex character who is far more vulnerable than she appears with more emotional depth than many of her contemporaries and her dry first-person narrative keeps the superficiality of the non-stop party lifestyle, and hedonistic antics that surround her, in perspective.

A lot of the trouble that our 'heroine' got herself into had predictable outcomes, and the twists were also predictable. It is all a bit glitz and glamour and then the relationship turns bad as the other side of Adam starts to show. Therefore towards the end of the book I didn't really care who was responsible for Adam's death as none of the characters would have been a surprise. The police rule it accidental but Lily is not so sure, so she decides to investigate his death herself. We follow the main character, Lily, a former child actor who has really done nothing of note for some time.This book started off slowly and took sometime to get into, there was a lot of stuff at the beginning which didn't particularly add to the story, and quite a lot of characters that I found hard to link up. I found myself immersed in this world, looking at it from Lily's point of view, your average human trying to make it in a sphere of adulation, exploring even one reason to demand that status, a world in which what you bring to the table means everything. I was intrigued to learn more, just like Lily, and particularly loved the final chapters in this section of the book as there were lots of things that took me by surprise! I also liked how character driven this book was; there were definitely some shady characters along the way!