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Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering

11 reviews

tannerlauren's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense slow-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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

elderwoodreads's review against another edition

dark reflective slow-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

I wasn't sure how I felt about this book for most of it. I feel like I enjoy this as extended character study but the story was weird and disjointed. As others have said the ending is incredibly abrupt and out of nowhere. Ultimately I really enjoyed Stephen's chapters and inner world even if I vehemently disagree with it. I think if you like the show it's worth a shot.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Fatphobia, Toxic relationship, Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Car accident

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Misogyny

Minor: Blood, Animal death, Animal cruelty, Ableism, Vomit, and Violence

jennabeck13's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

1.0

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering

⭐️ (1/5)

Genre: Romance

About 370 pages

Lucy is searching for who she wants to be when she arrives at Baird’s campus in California. She is young and naive which is how she falls into Stephen’s trap. The two start an on-again, off-again romance as they can’t resist each other despite knowing they aren’t good for one another. Tell Me Lies tells the story of their relationship during college, their transition to the professional world, and beyond. 

Keeping this brief… I did not like this book. It felt like it was promoting toxic relationships and in my opinion, there were no “positive” moments in Lucy and Stephen’s relationship. GoodReads promotes this as a “coming of age” story and a romance, but I think it was the opposite. While I think addressing themes like those in this book is important, I don’t think it was done properly here.

Favorite Quote: “Love—real love—isn’t something you construct or hope or imagine or plan for the future. Love is something you live and feel in real-time, in every single moment, big or small. It’s reciprocal and often unglamorous. But we bank on it because it’s what gives life meaning.”

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Car accident, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

mandarrr's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• 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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Death, Drug use, and Emotional abuse

taraaleitz's review against another edition

I literally just started this and I truly cannot read any more of it.🫣

The first page had be already wanting to stop reading, but I persisted for a whole 30 pages before deciding I really didn’t like this book. The characters aren’t likable, so it makes reading a very unlikable plot extremely difficult. There’s so substance to the story—it seems to be just a lot of pointless drama, materialistic tendencies, and overall extremely superficial.

The main character is Lucy and the whole book (I believe—again I only read 30 pages, plus skimmed some) is based around her unhealthy “relationship” with a boy named Stephen that she can’t fully get over. Stephen boasts in the thrill of chasing after a girl and making her fall for him, finds satisfaction in pursuing multiple women at a time, and very much sexualizes women.

I am not interested in entertaining this read anymore—even reading the first 30 pages was too many pages for me. Some may say that I didn’t give this book a chance, but I tried skipping ahead to read some more of the context to see if it’s all more of the same.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

Minor: Sexual content

libbyferg99's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Gaslighting, and Toxic relationship

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

lindsayerin's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Mental illness, Fatphobia, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Murder, Death, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Panic attacks/disorders, and Child death

Minor: Alcoholism and Classism

rrubin97's review against another edition

dark sad slow-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

2.25

The main characters - one was a sociopath and the other was a spiraling idiot who made me so mad

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Eating disorder

cosycourtney's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

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

1.0

After watching the trailer for the tv show coming out shortly I was really excited to read this book. However, I was greatly disappointed. Considering this book was under 300 pages, it felt like the longest short book I’d ever fucking read. The reasons I didn’t like this book were because 90% of it was female suffering with a sneeze of female empowerment. Did the author just want to wonder what it felt like to be a toxic male for the period of her life she wrote this? The focus on the male POV in this novel made me sick as I felt like Stephen was the most developed of the two characters and I felt like I knew more about him than Lucy by the end. Stephen is the worst type of person and there is no arguments there, well executed because I was mad and disgusted; bravo. However, LUCY was such a wildly disappointing character. The potential for growth, retribution, and happiness was so ripe and just ignore. Mind you, the lack of showing and just telling was infuriating. I only finished this book because I had high hopes it would be closed out with a bang and I could launch my fists in the air and say for good her but like what we got was pathetic. The entire 4 year relationship being rounded out by an epilogue felt lazy. For Lucy to end up in another pathetic relationship where a man only wants her for her body, still in a run down job & he gets the “happy ending” was just annoying. PLUS don’t even get me started in the Macy thing. Also, the amount of content surrounding Lucy’s eating disorder for her to just suddenly not have one anymore ???? And also the notion that she was “better” and yet she was still exercising ferociously and binging sweets. Overall, I was so disappointed with this book and hope the show is better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Eating disorder, Body shaming, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Misogyny, Dysphoria, Mental illness, Sexism, and Sexual content