Reviews tagging 'Physical abuse'

The Lies We Steal by Monty Jay

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samflowerv6's review against another edition

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I saw that some people get mad if you don’t like a book because of a trigger warning that’s clear but you never know how it’ll be used or how it’ll affect you. It’s so weird. I can enjoy the devils night series and other dark romances but the animal cruelty and just HOW dark some of the side characters are ruined everything for me. The story was interesting, like the whole plot and the FMC and her friend were great. But I felt the disconnect also from how much she thought of him vs him thinking of her. It was way off. Thatcher freaks me out more than Damon Torrance or anyone ever has and
what he and Alistair did to her pet rat is fucking weird and I cannot move on from it


I just don’t like any of the guys like AT ALL.

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abir_'s review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

The title is fitting. I felt nothing reading this and nothing after finishing it. I liked the friendship between briar and lyra and I loved their weird pets. 
I'm interested in Lyra's and Thatcher's story but I just can't go through the dryness that is this book again

Also deviance was used instead of defiance at some point and it completely ruined the experience for me, I was doubting that I saw typos up until that point

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