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The Obedient Lie: The Crow Dynasty Book 1

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One girl. Two heirs. No mercy.

I was born to obey.
Dynasty daughter. Betrothed to the golden heir of another dynasty.
A political match—until I caught him cheating at a party.

So I did the one thing that would burn it all down.
I kissed the Crow twins. One after the other. While Bastion’s hands were still on my waist…I grabbed his identical twin and kissed him too.

A kiss to shatter my engagement
Not an invitation to be hunted.

Bastion and Luca Crow are the kind of beautiful that ruins you.
All sharp jaws, black ink, and predator eyes— Power wrapped in temptation, dressed in control.

They weren’t just heirs. They were the future of a family no one dares to cross.
And now I’ve touched both.

A week later, my dorm is mysteriously flooded. I’m reassigned to their room. Their world.
They act like they hate me. Maybe they do. But their silence is loaded. Their stares, lethal. And now I’m sleeping under their roof.

They watch me like prey. Touch me like punishment. And hate me like it hurts.

NO CHEATING. NO OWD (Other Woman Drama).
Author’s The Obedient Lie is a dark, slow-burn MFM romance featuring twin brothers, one defiant dynasty daughter, and the legacy they were never meant to share. This series includes morally gray characters, power dynamics, emotional obsession, and scenes that may be triggering for some readers.

Please see the content warnings listed on the author’s website before reading.

The Crow Dynasty
Book 1: The Obedient Lie
Book 2: The Silent War
Book 3: The Savage VowRelated to The Crow Dynasty world
The Heir of Villain - Prequel novella.

440 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 25, 2025

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394 reviews289 followers
January 26, 2026
I have absolutely no idea who this heroine is 😵‍💫 One minute she’s Bambi in human form; the next she’s casually whipping out a bag of coke. What in the Pablo Escobar is happening? It’s like seven different personalities are fighting for control of the same character !

I really thought this book would be right up my street. It was all blue bloods, wealth, and power. I am usually endlessly fascinated by rich people and their particular problems. There was even a grand social divide between the Crows and the Caplans, described as “not just an old rivalry. It was dynasty warfare.”

As the synopsis said, as an act of defiance, the heroine kissed her enemy, and you thought, okay, I see who she is. In a world built entirely on reputation, that was a pretty big statement. From that alone, I was under the impression she was the kind of woman you did not play with. You hit her with something, and she could set your house on fire. Turns out, I got that very wrong.

She kept insisting she had the perfect mask…girl where? A mask, to me, implied a consistent persona you present to the world. And I genuinely could not tell who she was supposed to be.

Once I realised she wasn’t a badass, I recalibrated. She then came across as cool, calm, debutante-perfect, aloof, but smart. Then she flipped into ultra-nice, acts-of-service energy that felt oddly try-hard.

Then came the “innocent, unaware of her sexiness” act, which didn’t add up with her actions. Walking past the heroes in skimpy nightgowns, folding lingerie in front of them, accidental nudity, and underwear yoga. But somehow she had no idea any of this was sexy to them? She just needed to pick a lane !! Any lane !! I beg you!

The last personality I got was the most confusing. She and the heroes were sitting around a table and they offered her a drink. She said her social circle didn’t really drink…then added, “but we do cocaine.” Suddenly she moved an ornate tray, revealed a baggie, and said it helped with stress and expectations. Then she lined it up and they all did cocaine together. I felt like I was in the Twilight Zone. WHO IS SHE ????

The story felt full of contradictions. Firstly, with the heroine’s manyyyyyyyyy personalities. Then the fact that their world valued reputation and trained women to be Trad wives, yet she was abruptly ordered to move into the hero’s house as a loyalty test. Many moments felt rushed, and despite the angst and strong sexual tension, I struggled to understand these characters.

DNFed at 30%. I have whiplash. I don’t know who this woman is, and at this point, I half expect the next reveal to be that she’s an undercover cop or the Virgin Mary reincarnated.

Sidenote: Can anyone tell me what happened to the stepsister? She was introduced on page 2, as a boyfriend-stealer, who enjoyed ruining her life, but she never appeared again while I was reading….
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130 reviews
January 29, 2026
This book started with a pool scene I think, it would’ve been better if the three main characters drowned at the start
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44 reviews1 follower
December 3, 2025
Wtf did i just read! Fell for booktok again!

Barely any story and whenever there was a hint of a story it made absolutely no sense. Same repeated dialogue constantly throughout the book and absolutely no explanation to the family’s and the way things worked between them!

The drug her - when always?
She was suppose to marry the guy that was cheating but they are also trying to sell her?
Who is they? Her brother?



What even are the family’s? Are they just rich or is there more to it?

Awful absolutely awful
Profile Image for Brynn Masker.
127 reviews
December 17, 2025
It was good. Not really a huge fan of daddy kink and that made me cringe a lot, but looking past that I wasn’t disappointed. Homegirl was sweet which I thought was a refresher for being a dynasty girl. Some of the connections of people were confusing and it felt like there was supposed to be something else I read to understand dynamics a little bit. (Or I’m just slow lol). Boys were a little annoying, but not a bad read.

Writing wise I did feel like it was an overview of everything. Like it was multiple one shots that were put together to make a book.
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12 reviews
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January 13, 2026
what even is this? At this point, I should just write my review using ChatGPT because that's clearly what this author has done. I don't even know what was going on in my head when I chose to read this, it quite literally feels like sand in ones mouth

Tell me why their internal monologues are the same thing over and over again? This has to be ragebait because no way this became an actual book, or maybe I just wanted to make myself suffer and decided to read this.



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1,008 reviews39 followers
October 17, 2025
Plot: 3/5 • Smut: 3.5/5 ————> She kisses the twins after finding her boyfriend cheating on her with her step sister. Kissing the twins begins a chain reaction to new changes in her life. Starting with be forced to move into their dorm with them. Same room, three beds. She doesn’t realize how obsessed they’re slowing becoming with her. Finally feelings are balanced out and everyone gets together after stating she’ll never choose.


If you’re looking for something where the boys are absolutely obsessed, devoted above everything and give touch her and die vibes — this is for you. These twins are absolutely neck deep in love with her.


Lots of smut. Takes up a good chunk of the book. It’s slow to the surface but then it’s explosive.
14 reviews
December 5, 2025
I just want to say, please for the love of all that is Holy, get an editor, a pre-reader, a something. Seriously, anything. The premise is good, the writing seems a little immature, all things that can be overlooked and still could enjoy the book overall even. I hoped the second book would get better but it might be even worse. Literally every other page has misplaced commas, wrong words entirely, no plural where it should be, then/than misuse, and more. It got to the point I DNF’d the second book and I rarely do that. It could be SO SO good if you fixed these things! Please, so I can reread and enjoy it.
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331 reviews
August 13, 2025
really good!

So I had a great time reading this I liked all the characters and the story was entertaining and fast paced and that ending stop it! I can’t wait for the next book four stars⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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224 reviews
September 2, 2025
Can’t wait for the next book!!

Ok so I really liked this book and the Twins were everything!!! They fell and they fell fast and so did she. They are definitely giving we want you, your ours, and nobody else could have you.
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113 reviews4 followers
April 14, 2026
3.7 ★
i didn’t understand the world at all (where did that technology come from? lmaooo) BUT the romance was fun!
7 reviews
October 1, 2025
Messy writing. The twins’ backstory could be better than what was included. Would be great if you want a light and spicy read but if you’re looking for something more than that? Just don’t read this. Booktok has failed me again.
Profile Image for Rosa.
10 reviews
July 30, 2026
This book had so much potential to be great, but it ultimately fell short for me. The FMC felt like she was going through an identity crisis despite being portrayed as someone who understands each dynasty and how they operate. She was supposed to serve as the adaptable middle ground; a chameleon between them, but instead came across as surprisingly incompetent and inexperienced.

I read the prequel beforehand; I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. I enjoy dark stories with traumatic beginnings, but I felt there wasn't enough character development or world building to fully invest me. I especially wanted more of the mafia family “The Dynasty” dynamics and the history behind them, as those aspects seemed far more interesting than what we actually received.

I don't mind pet names in romance, but the constant use of "Daddy" and "Daddies" became excessive. It appeared so frequently that it started to feel repetitive and pulled me out of the dialogue. The writing itself felt clunky, and the dialogue and narration never flowed naturally. It seemed like every chapter followed the same formula: School. Shower. Party. Drugs. Cheer. Gameday. Daddy(ies). Repeat. Instead of building the characters or plot, it just recycled the same themes over and over until they lost any impact.

I'm always happy to support self-pub authors, but this book would have benefited from another round of proofreading and editing. There were several redundant statements repeated within the same chapters, which disrupted the reading experience. Overall, I can see the potential in the story, but it needed stronger character development, deeper world building, and tighter editing to fully deliver. Unfortunately, it didn't hold my interest enough for me to continue finishing the rest of the series.

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3 reviews1 follower
June 14, 2026
I honestly dont know where to start. The premise and the plot of this book are brilliant and had so much potential it was just the execution that let it down.

I wanted to love it so bad and I did when I fixed the issues in my own head or just blanently ignored them. Like when it made no sence that a chapter ended with them discussing traveling to an event, and then the next chapter started after the event finished... or maybe 2 days after the event finished? Im still not clear on that. Or when the FMC was drugged and muttering nonsense and yet both MMCs understood exactly what experiences and trauma she suffered, while I remained clueless.

It constantly felt like you were jumping about never knowing when, where or what was going on. A lot of details and background were missing and then mentioned like you were supposed to understand what it meant. I get keeping mysterious characters past elusive etc but I feel like I know next to nothing about the twins until the last chapter, like the fact hat they've 5 siblings??? Never came up.

And at points it felt like the twins characterisation and voices were interchangeable or maybe its because outwith their immediate thoughts they weren't developed much beyond what characteristics you were told each was. E.g., one is the quiet plotting one while the other is the emotional outburst one... except for when they switch and act the opposite and say that this isn't them and the other should be acting like this?
1 review
January 7, 2026
** Spoilers **

This book had potential to be great but I just found it wasn’t in depth enough, it all felt really surface level.

There was no backstory on any of the characters other than the small snippet you get from the twins childhood but again very surface level, I would have loved more world building and character building.

The plot in the blurb sounds great but there wasn’t much substance to it. For example when she admitted her ex used to drug her and mentioned his “kinks” why wasn’t this explored more in the book the MMC’s are supposed to be criminals and meant to exhibiting “touch her and die” behaviour but it was all just forgotten about on the next page telling her no more drugs and that’s it?!?

The ending was completely unnecessary the MC’s spend the entire book proclaiming that she’s ours, I belong to them and she just ups and leave no fighting for her nothing they just let her go on her merry way!

For me the style of the writing was boring and repetitive- I get this is meant to be a prequel and only shows this one portion of their relationship but it all just felt like a running inner monologue, there were very few actual conversations had in this book, how they all fell in love with her is beyond me because 90% of their interactions is them all staring at each other silently
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Profile Image for Jessica Byrne.
5 reviews
September 28, 2026
SO MANY PLOT INCONSISTENCIES!

This had the potential to be a good story, but it was crap.

The chapter timeline is all over the place, it makes it so hard to keep track of.
I can’t understand the FMC, it feels so forced to make her appear “angelic” at the start.
There’s no build up explanation of the academy, the families, etc.
It felt like we got dumped in chapter 4 or something, there is no build up.
It’s very short sentence, jabby. At 20% I’m just going through the motion of reading to try understand what’s going on, and 20% is chapter 21!!
It has so many holes - they’re at a pool party and she’s sitting in the pool, then she gets out and the heel of her shoe gets caught?!
She’s “innocent” and “scared of them”, tries to make herself smaller, but walks around their room in underwear. Just whips out cocaine whilst they’re eating pizza. Make it make sense.
All of a sudden at 34% they’re in a relationship and have routines and talk about things that have happened that haven’t happened in the book.
This was a DNF. No regrets.

Don’t waste your time.
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22 reviews
March 10, 2026
This book made absolutely no sense. Unfinished storylines, major plot points wrapped up in a couple paragraphs never to be spoken of again, completely inconsistent characters. I actually have no idea what even filled the pages, it doesn’t feel like there was much to the story at all. I read this on my kindle and I looked at how much of the book was left, thinking right we must be on about 80% surely things are going to start falling into place and making sense now - no I was on 96% and absolutely nothing fell into place and nothing made sense by the end.

Did this have an editor? If so, fire them. Incomplete sentences and so many spelling and grammar mistakes.

The only sole reason this is 2 stars instead of 1 is because I’m slightly tempted to read the next one in the series??? Is this some sort of Stockholm syndrome? Did I develop one of Emilia’s many ditsy personalities in which I actually enjoyed this a bit? Confused x
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178 reviews2 followers
January 15, 2026
I’m gonna start out with this was a great storyline with a great plot and sub plots. The theory behind the story was great and could have been something amazing, with that said I felt there was a disconnect between a lot of chapters and what was happening. I would finish one chapter that left on a cliffhanger just to get to the next chapter and it was somewhere else completely leaving the previous chapter missing a conclusion. This was a theme throughout the book as well, things got jumbled and didn’t always make logical sense. Even at the end, one minute it seemed like they were at the dorms but then suddenly they were at a hotel. Things seemed to jump a lot and it left a lot of world and situation building out which made it confusing. I’m hoping the second book can bring more clarity to some of the issues that were left so confused in the first book.
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168 reviews
June 2, 2026
sub-pare

Not really a story to this I won’t lie. And the writing style at times was a bit off. It was only till the end that I had read pretty much the second book as technically there’s one before that. So know that I know that the novel isn’t seems to make more sense.

Like I said there’s not much story to it. It’s just 2 possessive mafia time boys taking control and ownership over a girl who has had that from other people all her life and doesn’t know any difference. I think she’s confusing love with obsession and that’s apparent throughout.

But I do love the ending in a sense of that they knew they had to let each other go. Almost poetic. It wasn’t the happy ending everyone I suppose would be waiting for. But it was worth the pull.
6 reviews
July 27, 2026
Great story, but content needs work.....

Loved the story line, but could only give the book 3.5 stars. First book by this author, but needs to get someone to proofread her books before they publish. Oh my gosh, the amount of unfinished sentences, misplaced and/or missing words was unbelievable! It really detracted from what was a really great story with lots of the tropes I really love to read about. And it felt like there was a chapter missing between 28 and 29. The main characters were great as well, really full of depth of emotion. Not sure if I will continue with this series or not. Also, just an FYI, this book ends on a major cliff hanger. Absolutely no HEA in this one. If you want one you'll have to continue reading on. Not sure if I wasn't to or not.
18 reviews
April 16, 2026
DNF 67%
La verdad es que es demasiado superficial, no hay profundidad en los personajes ni en la historia. Los gemelos "malos" solo son unos hdp que tratan a todos como quieren. Y la protagonista es muy tierna, despues se aspira una linea de coca, despues vuelve a ser callada, despues grita en el medio del comedor universitario que se esta co***ndo a dos gemelos. No es para nada congruente. Y la historia siento que no tiene una trama especifica. Te dicen que WOW son hijos de dinastias, pero nunca te muestran de verdad li que significa, cada tanto viene un X a decir " es lo que debes hacer por el bien de la familia". No me gusto, le queria dar una chance pero se me caen los ojos
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368 reviews2 followers
July 28, 2025
This is a strange one..

I devoured it within a day - I loved Emilia, Luca and Bastion but I kinda felt as times if I was missing some of the plot and kept going back a page to make sure?..

I loved when she moved on them.. it was hilarious at times

The spice was on another level.. they treated her like a fricken queen when they realise they love her

But then all of a sudden she’s moving out?!

No explanation really for why… just slightly confusing. Unsure if I’m going to continue with the next book
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269 reviews2 followers
December 1, 2025
🖤 College romance
🖤 Shared dorm room
🖤 MFM

I loved the style of writing and the flow of this book! Very unique and easy to follow, despite the underlying themes and complex characters.

If you’re looking for something where the boys are absolutely obsessed, devoted above everything and give touch her and die vibes — this is for you. These twins are absolutely neck deep in love with her.

It’s unhinged, obsession with love and keeps you on your toes, spicy and honestly Bastion and Luca oh boy.
4 reviews
January 15, 2026
I had higher hopes for the book. The plot starts out well and pulls you in but as the book goes on it stays one note. The world feels small, you don’t get to know any other characters and the main characters do not have the development you expect them to have. A lot of the book is said and not shown. I personally liked how the author would build up tension, but then you would be left there.. the beginning of the book the twins yearn for the FMC but when they actually get her, it’s disappointing.
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2 reviews
May 5, 2026
What the actual hell did I read.

I never leave reviews, but what?! I think she needs an editor immediately. At one point, one of the twins names was wrong, not misspelled just the wrong name. There were also words with a capital and lowercase first letter. Commas were all over the place and I actually had to go back to make sure I was actually in the place I thought I was.

Emilia was innocent, and the badass coke lady, then a super hard ass 😐

Just…. No. Booktok needs to reel themselves in.
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1 review
May 7, 2026
I never leave reviews. Ever. This one forced my hand.

The writing is sloppy with many typos & repeating sentences. Commas used in spots they aren’t needed. All those things I can normally ignore if the plot is good.

Well the plot wasn’t good. The twins story is not clear. The structure of how the society operates is vague.

About 65% of the book they start using the word daddy or daddies MULTIPLE TIMES IN A SENTENCE. Like every single page minimum 10 times a page. It stopped being cute and became a massive ick.

Booktok let me down.
1 review
August 29, 2026
rushed scenes

It is lacking depth of heroes world. Which is kind of important to look into it to understand why they take those decisions. The story is kind of rushing through the scenes. The focus is a lot on the relationship of the trio and is missing the world around it. Heroes’ Characters are chaos. I was lost at some point what is going on and where are we with the story. The overall idea is great and I liked it but the delivery of it is a bit lacking. Would read the 2- d book to see what is going on, but not expecting much.
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