Reviews

Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata

emilyyyytug's review against another edition

emotional

3.0

Luna's sisters Thea and Kyrie suckkkk. <Spoiler>Frankly I'm mad at Lily too. Your sister is attacked by your cousin and you don't visit???? I don't know. I hated that. Thea is the worst. I never understand how people can see one sibling treated horribly by a parent and still justify having a relationship with that parent because they weren't horrible to them.

The romance was fine. All involved parties would benefit from therapy and some practice at healthy communication. 

Also I love the classic mariana zapata slow . However, I'm over the older men, age gaps she prefers. Ne 

k3vinsdays's review against another edition

5.0

i watch the skies getting light as i write
as i think about those years
as i whisper in your ear
i’m always going to be right here
no one’s going anywhere

oncebita's review against another edition

3.0

I won't rest till I find a MZ book that is as good as All Rhodes lead here.

brokenrecord's review against another edition

4.0

This was good! Not absolute top-tier Mariana Zapata, but good. There were a few things I felt like I should be more judgmental at Rip for, like… he was VERY possessive at the end and crossed the line a bit with some of his actions (like chasing off all her dates — although it helped that she had basically already told him she was into him but didn't think he was into her, so he was just trying to prove it). But honestly, this was just exactly the type of romance I was in the mood for, so I was willing to overlook some things.

I love slow burn romance so much, more than any other kind of romance, and I often get tired of reading romances that people say are slow burns but then the main character is somehow kissing only 100 pages in. So I always love being able to pick up a Mariana Zapata book and know that it's going to be a LONG journey before the characters admit being into one another, let alone anything else. It was the kind of romance I really love, with Rip and Luna slowly opening up and spending more time with one another and coming to rely on each other. I'm also always here for "platonic" bed-sharing, so that was fun. I enjoyed their dynamic a lot. There were one or two times I felt like Rip was going a bit too far in being mean/cruel, but I was kind of able to handwave it because I was enjoying the story so much.

And I really loved Luna, and how she made this family from the people at the garage, and how she had a surrogate father in Mr. Cooper, considering how her biological family treated her. I just loved her, and how she tried to be positive and happy, but she also wasn't naive and refused to take shit from anyone. I LOVED her reaction to Rudy coming for her, and that like… fierceness in delivering on her promise to

Spoiler

have his hand broken

was perfect, I loved that she followed through on that.

Basically, I enjoyed this! I'll pretty much always be up for checking out a new Mariana Zapata book.

lauralouise93's review

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

gifernandes56's review against another edition

1.0

This was so boring. I wanted to dnf so many times, but I stayed reading just to see when this guy would become an amazing guy, the answer is NEVER. He's just as annoying as Luna is. She's got to be one of the most annoying main characters I've ever read. She talks like she had done some horrible thing to her dad, she's is so embarrassed about it that I imagined it was some horrible thing, but she just called the cops, come on.
And she was so needy with Rip that if I were he would have yelled at her long before.
I get it that sha was scared at the end on being with him, because he had been mean to her, witch she literally asked him to tell her, and the she was mad at him for doing it. But it was so annoyng she douting every move from him, the flowers, he was just being nice and she was all "he's just felling guilty", well he should, you were mad at him for being rude so he should fell guilty.
I'm just happy that I finnished this annoying thing.

emreadswhatshewants's review against another edition

5.0

I LOVE LUNA SO MUCH SHE IS THE SWEETEST THING ON THIS WHOLE EARTH. Mariana Zapata did it again, sucker punched me straight in the heart. This book was slow and ah so much angst and I loved every minute of it. This book and Kulti are my top two favorites by this author. You really go on a journey with these characters, you understand them so deeply, you know their day to day lives, and you just FEEL everything they feel. So when they get their HEA its that much sweeter. Also LENNY! From the best thing but I guess I read these out of order

hanna0103's review

slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.25

🌶

booksumed's review against another edition

4.0

This one felt like the slowest slow burn from MZ yet.
I liked that the story took place in a mechanic shop and that the heroine didn't have a perfect family.

(I HATED her one sister and her dad so much omg!)

I sometimes wished Luna would've stood up for herself a little bit more but thought it fits the character and what she has been through.

The best part was definitely the ending ❤️‍

cheekybookshenanigans's review against another edition

1.0

This book is just too repetitive for me… I can’t deal with sentences being rewritten multiple times to fill a page. This book also has a lot of inner monologue more so than actual conversations which is not my thing. I like when characters converse because that’s how they build relationships… Luna and Rip are severely lacking chemistry because it takes them so long to actually have a full blown conversation instead of him grunting in response…