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A review by narteest
Tell Me No Lies by A.V. Geiger
3.0
Just as thrilling as the first, and reads just as fast. So, to note firstly, I did enjoy reading it, mostly because it's so easy to read. However, like Follow Me Back, I had some issues with parts that I realise in the moments when I bother to think over what I've just read.
While Tell Me No Lies gives us more Eric and Tessa and their new relationship together, as well as bringing Eric back to the showbiz world, but it also brings a wedge to jam into the time these two have. The wedge, of course, adds the drama and opens the space or conflict in the plot. However, there is one plot device I guessed early on, and felt it was an unexpected and not really important part to the overall narrative. On one hand, it highlights Tessa's anxiety and brings back all those lovely psych terms. But really...if anything, it just serves as a warning to never self-diagnose. If Tessa had just gotten a test done, she wouldn't have been paranoid. And unfortunately, for me, this plot point felt entirely unrealistically, since logically getting the test is the first thing most people would do.
Nonetheless, this was a fast, quick, dramatic read for anyone who enjoys a thrillery romance. Although Follow Me Back felt more fresh (though the transcripts thing is not new), Tell Me No Lies feels like an overeager parody, reusing old plot points, bringing out predictably foolish plot points (though in a way important to the story because without them, it couldn't move along quickly), nd some unnecessary plot points. It really does disappoint me a little that there was that one predictable plot device included. It was predictable from the moment she and Eric did it, and from when she narrates it.
Still, overall, it was an interesting read, there's no denying that truth.
While Tell Me No Lies gives us more Eric and Tessa and their new relationship together, as well as bringing Eric back to the showbiz world, but it also brings a wedge to jam into the time these two have. The wedge, of course, adds the drama and opens the space or conflict in the plot. However, there is one plot device I guessed early on, and felt it was an unexpected and not really important part to the overall narrative. On one hand, it highlights Tessa's anxiety and brings back all those lovely psych terms. But really...if anything, it just serves as a warning to never self-diagnose. If Tessa had just gotten a test done, she wouldn't have been paranoid. And unfortunately, for me, this plot point felt entirely unrealistically, since logically getting the test is the first thing most people would do.
Nonetheless, this was a fast, quick, dramatic read for anyone who enjoys a thrillery romance. Although Follow Me Back felt more fresh (though the transcripts thing is not new), Tell Me No Lies feels like an overeager parody, reusing old plot points, bringing out predictably foolish plot points (though in a way important to the story because without them, it couldn't move along quickly), nd some unnecessary plot points. It really does disappoint me a little that there was that one predictable plot device included. It was predictable from the moment she and Eric did it, and from when she narrates it.
Still, overall, it was an interesting read, there's no denying that truth.