Reputation

I first became obsessed with Sara Shepard when I found the Pretty Little Liars series. Since then, she has gone on to write multiple YA series and a handful of adult fiction books as well. I grabbed a copy of Reputation at Target and headed home to start reading it.

Reputation starts with a computer hack, some has created a server and released all of the student's and staff's private emails for four ivy league schools. Scandals are breaking out everywhere you turn, reputations are getting ruined, rape allegations are coming out, racist teachers are being exposed, oh and the affairs are flowing.

So this book follows five main characters; Kit, Lynn, Willa, Laura, and Raina.

Each of these women have secrets they want to keep but they all come out in the end.

Kit is married to Greg Strasser, a doctor who couldn't save her first husband. When the hack breaks, it turns out Greg had been emailing a character named Lolita about their love affair. But when he turns up dead, all eyes are on Kit.

Lynn is a pining for Kit's job, but she doesn't quite know how to get it. Maybe slip an ambien into her drink, making the donors think she's a sloppy drunk? Then there's Lynn's relationship with her own husband which honestly makes me sick. The facade she wants to keep up makes her look manipulative and it bothers me that she was okay with what her husband was doing on the sidelines.

 

Willa flies in from California to help her sister, Kit, get back on her feet. The two women have never been close, but that's because they're both keeping secrets from each other. But with Kit's go-ahead, Willa begins investigating Greg's death; not for her investigative reporting job at home, but because she wants to help Kit find answers.

 

New mom Laura is married to the head cop over the Greg Strasser murder investigation. But there's no way that her husband can possibly tie her back to Greg, can he?  But when she tries to tell him the truth, the abuse starts. She can only keep so many secrets before she jumps.

Raina, her storyline was weird. She lied about literally everything. She would repeatedly trap men for money. She had nothing, came from nothing, but wanted to be something. That's how she got almost $15k from a generous donor she didn't even have to sleep with.

Now how do all these women tie together?

Honestly, you could probably guess.

But this book still took me on a ride and I would love for this to actually be a television show.

Looking for other fiction books by Sara Shepard?

The Heiresses

 

Looking for YA books by Sara Shepard?

Ali's Pretty Little Lies (PLL Prequel)

The Perfectionists (The Perfectionists #1)

The Good Girls (The Perfectionists #2)