The Devil Is a Lie

Written by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Narrated by Janina Edwards

All that glitters isn't gold in this new compelling tale of love, money, and divorce gone wrong from award-winning and #1 Essence bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley.

Most people think that money is the key to happiness, but when an ecstatic Nina Lawson wins millions in the Powerball lottery, her world is turned upside down. At first, she and her fiance, Rick, are delighted with the unexpected windfall and immediately begin planning their future. Soon, family members and friends begin coming out of the woodwork to claim a piece of Nina's winnings. But the most unexpected request comes from Todd, Nina's ex-husband. He and his fiancee, Pam (with whom he had the affair that ended their marriage) reveal that the paperwork making Todd and Nina's divorce official was never filed . . . and she may be compelled to share half the money with her husband. As the situation begins to spiral out of control, Nina risks losing her heart and her newfound winnings to find out what really matters.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc
• Release date: Mar 12, 2019
• ISBN: 9781977335432

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

ReShonda Tate Billingsley’s #1 nationally bestselling novels include Let the Church Say Amen, I Know I’ve Been Changed, and Say Amen, Again, winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. Her collaboration with Victoria Christopher Murray has produced four hit novels, Sinners & Saints, Friends & Foes, A Blessing & a Curse, and Fortune & Fame. BET released a movie in 2013 based on ReShonda’s book Let the Church Say Amen in which she had a minor role. She also had a role in the made-for-TV movie The Secret She Kept based on her book of the same title. Visit ReShondaTateBillingsley.com, meet the author on Facebook at ReShondaTateBillingsley, or follow her on Twitter @ReShondaT.

Reviews for The Devil Is a Lie

[Dawn Bright Saunders · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I like the book overall and would definitely recommend it. However, it was easy to predict the outcome as it was giving off to much clues and Hints too early that this Rick the main character was going to face some real heart break. There really was no big twist to make me jump up and down but what I find intriguing was how money can make ones character comes to light real quick. The book emphasized importance of family and the reason for sticking together when someone of your family gets injured emotionally or physically that you pull together and stand strong for one another. I like that how they connected even when they were very distant. It also shows that money will make you do some desperate things that will destroy your life in reference to the cheating girlfriend who tried to kill the main character and her husband for money because he dumped her for cheating. So in a nutshell if you decide to play the lottery and win please don’t go television or share you news on social media because with that come a plethora of isles you don’t want to deal with. Keep your business quietly to yourself. Also remember to pay attention to clues and hints about those who are in your life that might want to be deceiving you and follow you gut instinct every time.

[madelina · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this audiobook, how I wish there was more audiobooks like this. I enjoy audiobooks that don’t have a lot of if any profanity. Audiobooks with to much information sexually and profanity is not necessary, hear and see enough of that in real life. Hats off to authors like Ms. Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Victoria Christopher Murray and Kimberla Lawson Roby and Tiffany warren, these Authors are the best. Thank you lady’s for all these years of hard work.

[Debra Bowden · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book was definitely a page turner! Great from beginning to end!!!

[Tracie Henderson · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fin to listen to with some pretty good life advice

[Patt Mihailoff · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

THE DEVIL IS A LIE, is a very entertaining and often humorous novel about a scorned woman (Nina Lawson)who wins the Lottery for millions. As is the way with such a windfall, Nina did many things wrong (I am avoiding spoilers here) that should have alerted her what was to come.

I like the way the author wove in the detail of how her Ex-husband who wasn’t exactly her ex, got half her money. The character’s in this novel are both likable and hated at the same time. Readers will quickly want to mentally slap the stars out PAM who is the most irritating piece of work that you wonder how Todd could have stayed with her.

The author was playing it safe by incorporating some of Nina’s more “ghetto” but humorous family associations and their obvious greed. All of her “fair day” uncles, aunts cousins even her drug addicted mother came to her usually referring to HER windfall as MY, or OUR money. In my opinion she was way too tolerant. Even after Nina found her twin cousins literally trying to burglarize her, she forgave them and gave them thousands

I think what I found a tiny bit disconcerting was the fact that Nina was so careless about her millions with her boyfriend Rick of about a year. Most women I know have a “rainy day” account that their husbands/partners don’t know about. Trust is fine, until it comes to money and when and if someone needs it bad enough, and what they will do to get it.

Anyone who knows me, (as I have mentioned in other reviews) I am the queen of revenge. I ALWAYS want to the bad person to get what’s coming to him/her in spades. In this case the ending of this novel was a little too pat for me; in the fact that Rick did not suffer the way “I” would have wanted him too.

I highly recommend LISTENING to this novel as Narrator Janina Edwards is a gifted orator.

It’s good and entertaining read and I give it four stars ****

[Tamara Lyons · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I loved it such a good realistic story. Great read

[LaQuita Dalton · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very good read with no dull points. I love a book that keeps me engaged throughout the story.

[Rose Chevallier · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoy authors way of weaving the power of forgiveness in relationships to restore and move forward ... Good Sunday afternoon read :)