Reviews tagging 'Death'

The Lies We Steal by Monty Jay

17 reviews

hapalyn's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.0

This book is in desperate need of an editor for the writing and spelling mistakes that were suprisingly distracting to me despite not usually being a problem. I feel like the pacing also fell a little flat; and, maybe the rest of the series is good despite this one missing the mark. While I'm not totally sure about continuing the series, I kind of liked the characters. There wasn't really enough going on with the plot to warrant the levels of violence, and there wasn't really enough chemistry between the two main love interests. Overall, this book was very... mid, but it is a pretty quick read due to the writing. 

I'm interested in Thatcher's backstory the most, but I'm interested in Silas's healing journey more than the other three combined.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Sexual content, Torture, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

aries_sun1419's review against another edition

dark emotional tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Emotional abuse, Torture, and Murder

Moderate: Gun violence, Sexual content, Blood, Grief, and Classism

Minor: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Kidnapping

tonianne2788's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Blood, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Fire/Fire injury

yeahok's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I’m not sure how I feel about this book.

The characters are in their late teens, but they really don’t act like it. Untouchable, violent, vigilante murders? 

Plot was not very believable and the two main characters went from hating each other, to being in love and unable to function without the other,  overnight. Still not sure how I feel about their first sexual encounter - did she consent? She didn’t not like it…
 
I did have a hard time with the descriptive violence throughout the book, but I’m sensitive like that. Curious to see if the series gets better for me, so I’ll keep going! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Animal death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Trafficking

libraryofjess_'s review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

3.75

✨3.75 stars ✨ 

🌶️2.5 spice 🌶️

‘Everyone has secrets. Everyone has a story. Even the heroes. Even the villains.’

I am pleasantly surprised by this book. This had a really interesting plot as well as really interesting male characters.

I enjoyed this quite a bit. As I mentioned before, the plot in this was really strong and holds mystery to it. We have the murder mystery and the 4 male town ‘psychos’ following leads in an…interesting fashion. 

I knew from the start that I was going to like this since it gives off vibes that the devils night series by penelope douglas has which I loved. 

I will say that the romance didn’t really start until maybe half way through the book but once it started it goddamn soared. 

I loved the raw emotions that were exchanged between Alistair and Blair, there is so much to Alistairs character that Blair being able to pull back the layers of him to find out his true motives and emotions was really enjoyable to see.

It was a wild read, very dark and twisted but I enjoyed it and I can’t wait to read the next book! 

Check TWs and CWs

Happy reading 🤍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

one_more_chapter96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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? Yes

3.75

Writing could use some editing mostly just for spelling mistakes though because it was written well overall and the prose flowed nicely in places. Overall a dark and twisted setting with a bit of mystery and a dark underbelly. Liked Alistair & Briar overall and how their story built up gradually but felt both their backstories could use a little more depth and the end felt a bit rushed. Spicy and a decent plot. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Torture, Violence, Blood, and Murder

Minor: Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Self harm, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad 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? Yes

4.0

This book felt very insta-lusty between the mc’s since they only saw each other once or twice before they thought of the other sexually. This is a dark bully romance involving murder and gore, so check the tw’s!! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

shannonspage's review against another edition

Too slow for me and too much internal dialogue. I tried, but idk I just don’t want to waste any more time forcing myself to finish this

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Animal death and Gore

briochebun's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

୨୧ The Lies We Steal ୨୧

╰┈➤ [4 out of 5 ☆’s.]

❝𝐈’𝐦 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞, 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬, 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐭.❞

ʚɞ ⁺˖ ⸝⸝

I am so glad I took the time to go back and finish this book! :)

I loved Briar + Alistair’s relationship! The tension between the pair was incredible & I cannot wait to see them appear in the other books in this series!

The side characters were also so intriguing — I can’t wait to read their stories! ♡

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Trafficking

Minor: Drug abuse, Rape, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

amiinaa's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

 I’m not too sure what to say about this book LMAO some parts that I’m guessing the author was trying to declare serious with the descriptions I couldn’t help but laugh a little 
All that’s coming to mind right now is how Silas is gonna have his own book with a different love story after me reading about him here. He loved her so much how do I act like I didn’t read any of that ☹️
LYRA AND THATCHERRRR can’t wait to see how their story is gonna go I thought the next book was gonna be about them but with that teaser of rook and sage I know they gonna deliver tooo 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Blood, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Gun violence and Schizophrenia/Psychosis