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Tell Me Lies

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Tell Me Lies

Auteur(s): Carola Lovering
Narrateur(s): Corey Brill, Rebekkah Ross
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 Now an original series on Hulu! Season 3 airing now!

“A twisted modern love story” (Parade), Tell Me Lies is a sexy, thrilling novel about that one person who still haunts you—the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn’t let go of. The one you’ll never forget.

Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother—whom she’s never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating.

Confident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she’s quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. Meanwhile, Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past that, if exposed, could ruin him, and his single-minded drive for success extends to winning, and keeping, Lucy’s heart.

Lucy knows there’s something about Stephen that isn’t to be trusted. Stephen knows Lucy can’t tear herself away. And their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined.

Alternating between Lucy’s and Stephen’s voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. “Readers will be enraptured” (Booklist) by the “unforgettable beauties in this very sexy story” (Kirkus Review). With the psychological insight and biting wit of Luckiest Girl Alive, and the yearning ambitions and desires of Sweetbitter, this keenly intelligent and supremely resonant novel chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood and the difficulty of letting go—even when you know you should. Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Psychologique Romance Suspense romantique Thrillers domestiques Thrillers et romans à suspense Fiction Intéressant Sincère Suspense
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A very dry boring book. The TV show is more interesting then the book. Still looking forward to season 2.

Not as interesting as I thought

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This just went on and on and on. No story, it was painful. I even turned the speed up to just finish it. Was hoping something might happen but it didn't. Such a colossal waste of my time.

The worst

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I read this after watching the series on tv. It’s completely different in so many ways. Disappointing. I was thinking I would enjoy the book, which is usually better than a tv series. Not in this case.

Not like the TV series at all

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This was very hard to finish and I found myself rolling my eyes throughout the story. Stephen is everything that is wrong with men these days. Lucy a train wreck. Pathetic

Hate-able characters

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To start— the book is different from the TV show. I love both for different reasons. The show branches out to capture the entire friend group and the book stays largely about the Lucy/Stephen dynamic. The book also has very different family backgrounds for Lucy/Stephen than the show and has different timelines. If you were considering both— trust me and read the book first! I got more out of the book than I did from the TV show though.

Trigger warnings: eating disorders and emotionally/psychologically abusive relationship

*spoilers below

The author dedicated this book to anyone who has ever had a Stephen. For me, it was hard to read, but incredibly healing because this book really gets it. It was well-written, entertaining, and the characters were layered and complex. Why the characters act and think like they do is not neatly wrapped up for the reader to cleanly understand— you have to pay attention, do a bit of work to understand the emotional realities of the characters, and, still, a lot of the motives are up for interpretation. I have never related more to a book than I did with Tell Me Lies— so, thank you, Carola!

You get both Lucy and Stephen’s POVs— it shows two sides in a toxic college relationship that is fraught with emotional abuse and I think it does a pretty good job at putting you in the mind of someone who has a dark triad personality like Stephen. It will make you frustrated at Lucy at points (just like the show did), but that is what happens with abusive relationships— the perfect victim does not exist and this book is so perfectly messy and honest about that. The book shows a growth arc over time that deals with an eating disorder and trauma/generational trauma— and the way this book ended was incredibly satisfying for me.

I read this a few years ago and then I suggested it for my book club in the last year. It remains my book club’s favourite book— it is a book worth thinking about and it was a lot of fun to talk about too.

Happy reading! 💛

Drama and therapy all at once

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