A review by bhavyaareddy
The Lies We Steal by Monty Jay

2.5

I was rlly into the book at first and read the first 45% in one sitting on a plane, until I started to get bored. Idk if it was bc the story felt like not enough was happening for much I read at that point or bc I was getting restless from being stuck on a plane. I procrastinated the shit out of reading the rest of the book since then. It took me a whopping for 4 months to finish the book. 

I will say it got very interesting at 70% when we find out what happened to Rose and I wish it was a bigger part of the story or something because for some reason the structure or the plot line itself felt boring after the beginning. The mmc and fmc were also so deeply romantic after the climax at 70% when shit goes down and they finally start giving into their feelings for each other, which makes me wish the author wrote more of their relationship building into the story or that their “slow burn” was more emotionally complicated for the characters in the middle of the book instead of just being sexual + enemies bc their romantic feelings would have felt so much more believable. 

I would have DNFed book months ago but I wanted to push through so I can read the rest of the series, I hope the other books are better.