Romance

Review: All the Truth In My Lies by Elísabet Benavent

August 19, 2026

Synopsis:

Six best friends on a bachelorette road trip. One RV packed with secrets.

Blanca’s September wedding is the perfect excuse for one last adventure, so Coco, Loren, and Aroa rent a camper and plot a week of sun splashed beaches, campsite dinners, and dancing till closing time. Marín and Gus jump onboard at the last minute. It should be idyllic—if only the truth weren’t riding shotgun.

Coco and Marín are the kind of roommates who make life look easy. Too bad Coco is in love with him. To keep it hidden, she pretends she’s still hung up on her ex, Gus… who seems to be writing love poems to someone he won’t name. Marín and Aroa’s breakup? Messier than anyone admits. Blanca should be glowing for her fiancé, yet she’s miles away. And Loren—poor Loren—knows more than he should and can’t tell a soul.

What starts as a carefree farewell becomes a pressure cooker of almost confessions and half truths. As the miles roll by, the stories they’ve told about themselves start to crack, and each of them has to choose what to the friend group they’ve always been—or the person they might finally be brave enough to become.

Review:

I was not expecting this book to leave me so emotionally devastated, and I loved that for me. I can love a book, I might hate it, but leaving me somewhere in the middle is not what I hope for when I pick one up.
The premise of the book sounded rather simple on paper: friends going on a trip together before one of them gets married, combining a bachelorette party and a summer vacation. It came across like a great idea on paper. But what happened on that trip was messier than anyone could have hoped for.

It took me a while to get into the book, to be very honest. For the first 20%, I was constantly wondering when Coco would stop trying to sell me on why Marín is such a great person and why she is so in love with him. I got that part rather quickly. The fact that they were on a trip together with both of their exes presented an opportunity for jealousy, a hostile environment, and a lot of chaos.
What I got instead was a pressure cooker constantly lingering in the background. When all of these people were put in close proximity to one another, sharing a past and hiding a lot of secrets from each other, it left me gasping many times.

I was drawn into the facade being presented while everyone seemed to know something that someone else didn’t. Some things were very obvious, and denial can only get you so far. Once the tension boiled over, I was gasping. What happened between Coco and Marín especially started out so hopefully. I was rooting for them until it suddenly took a turn for the worse, and I found myself crying multiple times. How can you leave me so devastated?
This is one I won’t forget anytime soon, and I am looking forward to seeing how the story comes across on screen. I found myself imagining it as a movie while reading because it feels perfectly suited for that format.

This book surprised me in the best way possible.

🌙 Recension: All the Truth In My Lies by Elísabet Benavent
📚 Genre: Romance
📅 Release Date: May 12, 2026
📖 Publisher: ‎Sourcebooks Casablanca
📗 available in various formats
📱 Read as: Kindle
💸 I received a free copy and am voluntarily leaving a review.
📆 Pages: 495
⭐️ 5/5