About the Book

Book: The Camera Never Lies

Author: David Rawlings

Genre: General fiction/allegory/magical realism

Release Date: December 3, 2019

David Rawlings, author of The Baggage Handler, returns with another probing story: what would you do if your secrets were revealed to those around you?

Daniel Whiteley is a successful couples counselor who regularly puts families back together, helping them face up to the things in life they hide. But his own marriage is falling apart.

His wife, Kelly, knows Daniel is hiding something from her, but she doesn’t dare probe for fear her own secrets will be revealed.

When his grandfather dies, Daniel inherits an old SLR camera from a time when cameras pointed away from the person taking the photograph. On the camera is an inscription: “Use this camera wisely and remember, regardless of the picture you think you took, the camera never lies.”
When Daniel first uses his new camera he finds someone has already filled the roll of film. Annoyed, he processes the film and finds photos of a secret that he’s been hiding from his wife and daughter.
He has no idea who took them.

Now every time he uses the camera, the photographs reveal another secret about himself the he is desperate to keep-as well as those of his wife, which he is desperate to uncover.

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The Camera Never Lies by David Rawlings
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review. I was not financially compensated, and all opinions are 100 percent mine.

First of all, this is a clean book. No profanity or sex scenes. And even though God is not really talked about in the book, Biblical/Christian principles are promoted. There are some unexplained phenomena in the book, but that is a part of the charm of the book, I do believe.

This is a very unusual book, to be sure. I found myself captivated throughout most of the story. I understand that not everything is explained in the book, but at the end of the day, honesty is the guiding principle. If we would just be honest and not attempt to hide all our “messy stuff,” I believe we would be much happier people. There are real issues dealt with in the pages of this book. And the title definitely is true, except that nowadays, people can make the camera lie–something that is also addressed in the book. I believe that is why the old camera is the central focus. Those were the days when the camera could not lie.

My only complaint is that God was not a bigger player in the book. When I got to read a Christian book, I do expect that there will be more allusions to God. I’m grateful that doing the right thing is the main focus, but I would have preferred more attention to God in the book. Just a personal opinion, but I do tend to hold Christian books to higher standards.

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About the Author

David Rawlings is an Australian author, and a sports-mad father of three who loves humor and a clever turn of phrase. Over a 25-year career he has put words on the page to put food on the table, developing from sports journalism and copywriting to corporate communication. Now in fiction, he entices readers to look deeper into life with stories that combine the everyday with a sense of the speculative, addressing the fundamental questions we all face.

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