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Never Lie by Freida McFadden

22 reviews

maggiemichael's review against another edition

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Murder, Violence, Mental illness, Stalking, and Sexual harassment

crimsonreadlips's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Torture, and Kidnapping

claire_reardon's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense

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

2.0

Maybe this book would’ve been better if the narrator for the audiobook didn’t give stupid voices to everyone. But also maybe not because there was only one collective brain cell between every single character. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, Death, Pregnancy, Confinement, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Kidnapping, Mental illness, and Murder

ehamlett's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, and Violence

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexual harassment, and Stalking

Minor: Pregnancy

crowray's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

the therapist was the best part of the book. good story, writing felt a bit weird at times, felt like it was trying to be super on the nose about leading you to believe a certain conclusion. ending  twist felt a bit rushed. loved the multiple POV’s and the characters felt super complex and you couldn’t grasp an exact idea of who’s the villain and who isn’t which was nice. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking and Gaslighting

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Car accident, Alcohol, Murder, Death of parent, Cursing, Sexual assault, Domestic abuse, Gore, Injury/Injury detail, Rape, Child abuse, Confinement, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Violence, Drug abuse, and Addiction

avidreaderandgeekgirl'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

4.5

    Snowed in at the house of a missing psychiatrist with her husband, a woman listens to tapes of the therapist's sessions to try to solve her murder. But is someone else in the house? And one simple fact rules, everyone lies...
   I enjoyed this book. It had twists I didn't see coming! I saw parts of one twist but only about a quarter of the true twist. The characters, however, weren't very likable. Tricia bent way too much to her husband and wasn't assertive at all through most of the book just her husband knows best. 
    Overall, a great thriller. Just not as enjoyable as it could have been with a more likable MC, but I see how that served the greater story. 

  Extra ratings: Fluff - 0/5 Heartfelt- 2.5/5 Helpful-NA Horror -0.5/5 Inspiration -NA Love aka Romance-2.5/5 Mystery -3.5/5  Predictability -2/5 Spice -0/5  Suspense -4/5  Tear- 1.5/5 Thrill - 4/5  Humor-0.5/5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Murder, Alcohol, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Sexual harassment, Toxic relationship, Death, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Kidnapping, Car accident, Drug use, Vomit, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Sexism, Toxic friendship, Animal death, Body shaming, and Sexual content

bookishchaos's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

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

5.0

Wow, I thought I had the twist figured out but nope! Very clever!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

Moderate: Stalking, Confinement, and Infidelity

Minor: Sexual harassment

brianna97's review against another edition

dark mysterious 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

4.25

Ms. McFadden gets me every. single. time. I really thought I had this one figured out to my core from the beginning and I was SO WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING! The twists were BEYOND shocking in this one. The only thing keeping it from a 5 for me is this book did not have her best epilogue in my opinion. Otherwise, bravo Frieda - you played me AGAIN.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Gore, Murder, Death, Violence, Stalking, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Body horror, Drug abuse, Kidnapping, Car accident, Confinement, Emotional abuse, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

xnolakola's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual harassment

Minor: Sexual assault

tinytori's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

1.5

I disliked this book, to put it plainly. Thriller is not my normal genre and I was excited to try something new but at no point during this read was I scared because I never really got invested. Even when the big twist came, my reaction was a subtle “oh”. It was just boring. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Rape, Stalking, and Sexual harassment