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Fallen For A Lie: A Gay Spy Romantic Suspense Novella
150 pages, Paperback
Published September 20, 2023
About the author
Connor Whiteley
1,960 books4 followersConnor Whiteley is the author of over 30 books in the sci-fi fantasy, nonfiction psychology and books for writer’s genre and he is a Human Branding Speaker and Consultant.
He is a passionate warhammer 40,000 reader, psychology student and author.
Who narrates his own audiobooks and he hosts The Psychology World Podcast.
All whilst studying Psychology at the University of Kent, England.
Also, he was a former Explorer Scout where he gave a speech to the Maltese President in August 2018 and he attended Prince Charles’ 70th Birthday Party at Buckingham Palace in May 2018.
Plus, he is a self-confessed coffee lover!
He is a passionate warhammer 40,000 reader, psychology student and author.
Who narrates his own audiobooks and he hosts The Psychology World Podcast.
All whilst studying Psychology at the University of Kent, England.
Also, he was a former Explorer Scout where he gave a speech to the Maltese President in August 2018 and he attended Prince Charles’ 70th Birthday Party at Buckingham Palace in May 2018.
Plus, he is a self-confessed coffee lover!
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July 7, 2026
This is seriously so bad I don't know how to review it. It feels like 1940s noir with all the talk about the gays and queers when it's supposed to be set in 2022 England. The narrative voives and perspectives of Luca and Jamie are indistinguishable. The plot, characters, romance and writing are just so bad. So many grammar issues that I stopped highlighting them. "Hot sexy" is used to describe a main male character 5 times, along with an absurd number of other superlatives gushing about their physical attractiveness.
Examples:
"Luca focused on a seriously hot sexy man in a very tight fitting and expensive black suit, white shirt and black trousers as he glided so confidently through the crowd. Luca absolutely loved how the hot man carried himself with such confidence and his stunningly gorgeous face was so smooth and his strong manly jawline was to die for. But the way his longish black hair was styled parted to the left to make him look like a movie-star even more was what really did Luca’s heart in. He was extremely attracted to this drop-dead hunk of a man."
"Jamie knew she was probably right but he wanted to spend the night with Luca. He was so hot, beautiful and sexy that there was literally no one else he would rather be with tonight."
Then there's so many instances of NO ONE TALKS LIKE THIS dialog. Like Luca's sister Amelia saying to Jamie, "Better you test each other out first before you pop his cherry." Or the very mustache twirling villain lines of “Of course not gay boy,” Helen said. “You've been too busy with you queer friend to investigate me. I doubt you will become a challenge to me now."
As just a reader and reviewer with no formal training, I literally cannot critique this properly. It's just bad. Barely readable and not at all enjoyable, bad. The only way I managed to get through a page without highlighting some example of bad grammar or weird writing is I skimmed over that page to get the reading over with. I don't know if this was the first thing tge author ever wrote, but it's the first thing I read by them and it may well be the last.
Examples:
"Luca focused on a seriously hot sexy man in a very tight fitting and expensive black suit, white shirt and black trousers as he glided so confidently through the crowd. Luca absolutely loved how the hot man carried himself with such confidence and his stunningly gorgeous face was so smooth and his strong manly jawline was to die for. But the way his longish black hair was styled parted to the left to make him look like a movie-star even more was what really did Luca’s heart in. He was extremely attracted to this drop-dead hunk of a man."
"Jamie knew she was probably right but he wanted to spend the night with Luca. He was so hot, beautiful and sexy that there was literally no one else he would rather be with tonight."
Then there's so many instances of NO ONE TALKS LIKE THIS dialog. Like Luca's sister Amelia saying to Jamie, "Better you test each other out first before you pop his cherry." Or the very mustache twirling villain lines of “Of course not gay boy,” Helen said. “You've been too busy with you queer friend to investigate me. I doubt you will become a challenge to me now."
As just a reader and reviewer with no formal training, I literally cannot critique this properly. It's just bad. Barely readable and not at all enjoyable, bad. The only way I managed to get through a page without highlighting some example of bad grammar or weird writing is I skimmed over that page to get the reading over with. I don't know if this was the first thing tge author ever wrote, but it's the first thing I read by them and it may well be the last.
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