Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering

23 reviews

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

cbook1211's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

3.5

Addictive read at the start, and emotionally challenging. But the ending fell flat to me

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Cursing

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

courtneys317's review against another edition

tense 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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Car accident, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Mental illness

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: Eating disorder, Drug use, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

Minor: Vomit, Car accident, and Death

snjos58's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Cursing, Drug use, Sexual content, Body shaming, Car accident, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

lexim's review against another edition

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

1.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Minor: Animal death

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

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

✩✩✩✩

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