Tell Me Lies: A Novel
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YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR WORST. "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.
YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR WORST. "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.
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Read this after watching the Hulu series and it’s so juicy. It’s one of those books where you love and hate the characters equally. From my perspective I related to Lucy’s naivety and reflected a lot of the people I allowed into my life during my early college years and realizing what signs and flags to look out for in this coming of age
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Stephen Demarco is a prime example of what happens when girls give MID men chances. We’ve all done it. I’ve never disliked a male book character more. I was cheering Lucy on in the end & while she irritated me as much if not more than Stephen, she deserves her happy ending!
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Juli.rodz reacted with :heart:
DNF. I guess the unlikeable characters is a thing many people find compelling, but I am not one of them. I wanted to literally reach through the audiobook and strangle Stephen, every single thought he had was either pretentious, disgustingly vilely misogynistic/creepy, or both. And Lucy was such a'not like other girls!' type. I also found the references to the vague "the unforgivable thing" annoying as hell. Just tell us what happened or stop making vague references with a cute little euphemism, instead of building anticipation for when we'd finally found out what CJ did, just made me annoyed as hell. And when I was considering giving up on this book I looked up what it was to see if would be worth and it just wasn't. I get why she was hurt, but narratively it wasn't worth the build-up throughout the novel.
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Anonymous reacted with :thumb_up:
Was pretty annoyed with how Lucy was just giving into Stephen, was becoming pretty pathetic at points and that was all the book was portraying. Stephens views were pretty dumb. It was overall Okay but wasn't the best plot ever.
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