Still lying by your side even in the great divide: TELL ME LIES.

Tell Me Lies by Carola Lovering
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Because I live under a rock, I had no idea that this book was made into a TV show. I also thought this was supposed to be more of a thriller, based on other books of Lovering's that I've read. Still, I found this to be a captivating story about unlikable people in toxic relationships.

Lucy meets Stephen at Baird College, where they begin a toxic on-and-off relationship that spans years. The book alternates between Lucy and Stephen's POVs, so you can see how easily Lucy falls for Stephen's charms and how Stephen is a sociopathic, awful person. Lucy's obsession with Stephen is rooted in trauma and we see her struggles with an eating disorder (please note that trigger).

The hardest part of this story was how awful the characters are. Lucy grows on you, but she and Stephen spend so much of the book drinking and doing drugs--that part is too much at times. But the nuanced look into how someone can stay, or return, to a terrible relationship is honestly quite well-done, and I found the book incredibly difficult to put down. It was honest and raw and different.

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