Reviews tagging 'Death'

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering

24 reviews

sleepswithbooks's review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Just an incredibly frustrating read with obnoxious characters. The story is somewhat interesting and engaging, but every chapter is essentially the same with nothing new happening with the characters. Dumb kids making dumb choices. Ending was terrible. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Car accident, and Alcohol

sam_wilson's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Dudes a piece of trash and Lucy needs real therapy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Eating disorder

sprucewillow's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Fatphobia, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Vomit, and Car accident

sldibened's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Eating disorders, abusive relationships, sex, drugs & alcohol 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

Eating disorders, abusive relationships, sex, drugs & alcohol

_simplyrochellereads's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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I enjoyed the writing of this book. From the beginning I enjoyed it, but I did not enjoy the back and forth toxicity from Steven.  Steven was very cringey,  narcissistic, and had no consideration for women. It seems like he was taking his mother abandonment issues out on these woman. It took the beginning to the end of the book to help us understand from the first four pages that Steven and Lucy would not end up together; he didn’t deserve her and she needed to figure her mess out sooner. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol

readingwithrylanne's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I'm pretty sure I'm just a sucker for drama because I was OBSESSED with this book. The beginning of it was rough, especially on audio, but I soon found myself unable to put it down and zoomed through most of the book in two sittings. Lucy was a pretty self-absorbed character for a lot of the book, but a part of me also . . . related to her? Especially when it came to figuring out what love is/is not; it's so easy to be blinded by who we think someone is rather than who they actually are. My heart tweaked at the end of the book, and I genuinely think we saw growth in Lucy, and I loved that! This is a super messy, dramatic, and toxic book, but I was addicted and can now watch the show on Hulu!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Car accident, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Vomit

salmonfry's review against another edition

dark emotional tense

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

such a gen z story, liked development between Lucy and her mom

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

treestostars's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Death and Toxic relationship

ginareadspararom's review against another edition

sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I usually don't leave reviews BUT this one...BABY! We have to talk about it. LOL. 

 

In the beginning of reading it, I was really enjoying it. I had a strong feeling of "okay, where are we going with this". It seems like other than his green eyes, she wasn't even initially attracted to Stephen, and yet, she was able to fall for him really hard anyway. 

 

made it so much worse that we had his perspective as well, because we could tell for the majority of the story he was not even thinking about her.

 

I was all set to give this book a solid 3 stars. 

 

The only thing that changed it to 4 stars was the enormous growth that Lucy made in the last 2 chapters.

It seemed like that growth was going to come earlier in the story but NOPE, it did not last. 

 

I loved that the book did touch on mental health and the struggles that Lucy had with it. I personally think that with her lack of empathy for other characters it was more than just the one mentioned that she should have been diagnosed with.

 

Overall, I hated everyone BUT the book was pretty good. It was watching a train wreck. Painful to keep watching/reading but I was unable to look away/put the book down. 

 

Great job, Carola Lovering. I hated the book but that's what also made me love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Alcohol

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Poignant and devastating, Lucy’s coming of age story is one of tragedy and disappointment. She struggles to build positive relationships through the fog of her depression, uses drugs to cope, and makes life decisions based on the whims of a boy. Understanding her past is the key to freeing herself in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Classism