From Goodreads.com:Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she's been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can't tell the real story - so they lie.
The public is fascinated by the castaways' saga, but Lillian and Dave must return to their lives and their spouses. Genevieve Randall - a hard-nosed journalist and host of a news program - isn't buying it. She suspects Lillian's and Dave's explanations about the other crash survivors aren't true. And now, Genevieve's determined to get the real story, no matter how many lives it destroys.
In this intriguing tale of survival, secrets, and redemption, two everyday people thrown together by tragedy must finally face the truth...even if it tears them apart.
Wreckage is told by two different characters, Dave and Lillian. Each chapter starts out with who is narrating and when it is taking place, post-rescue or pre-rescue, but you still jump around in time during chapters (sort of in the style of Gone Girl.) It was a little odd to start but I soon got the hang of it. The characters are a little flat, but still (sort of) interesting.
It was a little bit of a mystery, mostly because I was trying to suss out the lies from the truth. It did slow down about halfway through, when you started to see what the lie included. I still felt the need to know how it ended despite thinking it was becoming predictable.
If you're looking for somewhat of a guilty-pleasure mystery this is a good book for you. But I wouldn't completely label it as a mystery. I think it easily fits into the contemporary fiction genre also. It's a good, relatively quick read that should hold your attention and perhaps make you think a little on the nature of lies.
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