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Cruel Crown #1
Devious Lies
**15 hrs, 46 min**
From USA Today bestselling author Parker S. Huntington comes an enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romance full of revenge and a dash of fate.
“She could enjoy her pretty, perfect world a little longer. Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.”
I had a plan to escape the friend zone.
Step one: sneak into Reed’s room.
Step two: sleep with him.
But when the lights turned on, it wasn’t familiar blue eyes I saw.
These were dark, angry, and full of demons.
And they belonged to Reed’s much older brother.
Four years later, Nash Prescott is no longer the help’s angry son.
I’m no longer the town’s prized princess.
At twenty-two, I’m broke, in need of a job.
At thirty-two, he’s a billionaire, in need of revenge.
Who cares if my family ruined his?
Who cares if he looks at me with pure loathing?
Who cares if every task he assigns me is designed to torture?
I need the money.
Simple as that.
I’ll suffer his cruelty in silence, knowing there’s one thing he wants more than revenge…
Me.
Note: This is a 145,000-word standalone in the Cruel Crown world. Welcome to Eastridge. Enter if you dare.
From USA Today bestselling author Parker S. Huntington comes an enemies-to-lovers, slow-burn romance full of revenge and a dash of fate.
“She could enjoy her pretty, perfect world a little longer. Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.”
I had a plan to escape the friend zone.
Step one: sneak into Reed’s room.
Step two: sleep with him.
But when the lights turned on, it wasn’t familiar blue eyes I saw.
These were dark, angry, and full of demons.
And they belonged to Reed’s much older brother.
Four years later, Nash Prescott is no longer the help’s angry son.
I’m no longer the town’s prized princess.
At twenty-two, I’m broke, in need of a job.
At thirty-two, he’s a billionaire, in need of revenge.
Who cares if my family ruined his?
Who cares if he looks at me with pure loathing?
Who cares if every task he assigns me is designed to torture?
I need the money.
Simple as that.
I’ll suffer his cruelty in silence, knowing there’s one thing he wants more than revenge…
Me.
Note: This is a 145,000-word standalone in the Cruel Crown world. Welcome to Eastridge. Enter if you dare.
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First published December 14, 2019
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October 5, 2023
i. am. so. upset.
hi! welcome to my rant review! please grab your popcorn and candy now😋oh and if you liked this book…look away now bestie, this review is not for you.
first things first…this book doesn’t even deserve one star, but here we are. the wait for this review is over hehe, enjoy!<33
thanks to parker s huntington and her ridiculous 700 page long, thick ass book…i’m now in a reading AND review slump. parker added that “this book may contain triggers” uh yeah! trigger warning: this book is terrible, may cause a reading slump, may die of boredom, etc. on a serious note the only trigger in there is sexual assault, but don’t worry you won’t have to read about it because i will be thoroughly convincing everyone NOT to read this book<3
you guys wanna hear the most funniest thing about this whole book!? at the beginning…there’s a note from the author and she was saying how it took her so long to finish this book. she scrapped the entire thing and started over and then finally…one day…it all just clicked. bahahahaha GIRL…WHAT EXACTLY CLICKED!? cuz it wasn’t any part of this book😳this is so harsh omg. i’m sure parker s huntington is a lovely person! i do give her props for writing a 700 page book too…i could never.
♡ playlist:
the only successful thing the author did was trap me with some of the songs listed on this playlist…
not about angels - birdy
a drop in the ocean - ron pope
skinny love - birdy
out of the woods- taylor swift
somewhere with you - kenny chesney
lover - taylor swift
ocean eyes - billie eilish
~~~first of all…who had blue eyes?! i don’t remember either of the mc’s having blue eyes LMAO. also when i finished this book…i immediately questioned why these songs were even put on the playlist. none of these fit with this story. i expected to SOB, but nope! :D the only sad thing about this whole experience was that i spent $20 on this book and then read all 700 pages.
okay where do i even begin with a book that i hated so much? hm let’s see…
♡ the lovely plot:
a whole lot of nothing. so we have emery who’s 22 and nash who’s 32. basically…the book starts with emery at age 15 and nash at age 25. emery is in love with nash’s younger brother, reed. he’s the same age as emery. reed has a gf tho so she can’t do anything about it. you kind of get these vibes that nash cares for emery and then we skip time and she’s now 18 and he’s 28. reed broke up with his gf so emery takes it upon herself to sneak into reed’s bedroom to have sex with him. the lights are off, it’s completely dark right. guys she ends up sleeping with nash. what kind of shit? like i’m sorry how is it that y’all don’t know who you’re having sex with especially when they’re literally TALKING. you’re telling me this girl was supposedly in love with reed, but she couldn’t tell that he’s not the guy she was having sex with? let’s bffr. then we skip time again to when emery is 22 and nash is 32. his dad died of a heart attack and he blames emery and her family and calls them all murderers and seeks to get revenge against her and her family. yeah. that’s the plot. a supposed “enemies to lovers” romance. garbage. boo boo caca. SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES OF THIS. why. just, why. who lied and said this book was good and ready to be sold…i wanna know. let’s talk. i have so many questions because if it were up to me…this book would not have seen the light of day.
♡ the writing:
so fucking inconsistent. the majority of the writing was so cringe that it felt like i was reading something worse than a wattpad story and then very little of the writing was good. parker…sweetie, PICK ONE! damn😭omg and then i felt like there was not a lot of dialogue. “but kendyl…the book was 700 pages, how can that be?” there was so much pointless shit…that’s what made this book so long was because you’re basically in the characters fucking heads and reading a bunch of their stupid thoughts. guys it was so bad that when characters were having conversations…i’d forget what the conversation was about because there would be so much shit in between the actual dialogue if that makes any sense. just a bunch of monologues put together. ALSO, the story would pick up from a different place and confuse the fuck out of me. like the beginning of a chapter would pick up exactly where the previous chapter ended and then during the chapters it would like change…it was so fucking backwards, i can’t even explain it. i won’t lie…i skimmed A LOT of this book. i found myself just reading the dialogue so that’s my secret on how i finished this 700 page book so quickly.
♡ the spice:
he put a cabinet knob in her ass. guys. i seriously cannot lmao. he also put the tip of a golf putter inside of her while they were at a golf course…why. oh he also calls her “tiger” and “little tiger”. it’s supposed to be this cute thing with some kind of poetic meaning behind it, but no. just no. i didn’t like it.
“you taste fucking wet to me, tiger, and i know you didn’t get wet for yourself.”
~~~alright. that’s enough. i don’t think i have to say much more about how terrible the spice was in this book.
♡ side characters:
i could not tell you guys a single thing about them. all i want to say is that every time nash or emery talked to the side characters…i would seriously skim and not take in anything of what they were saying because it was so boring. i didn’t understand why these characters were even written. definitely another reason why this book was so long. emery and nash might as well have been side characters too because i felt no connection to them. i didn’t sense any kind of chemistry either. how did i finish this book😩
♡ a good laugh:
“her nipples were hard as fuck, and they pointed right at me like two tiny sorting hats choosing my lips as their hogwarts house.”
~~~HELP ME LMAO. this had me literally gasping for air😂😂😂no wait the author wrote this…reread it and was like “oh yeah i ate”💀pls i’m crying. can you guys now understand why this book was so painfully long…because why not just say her nipples were hard and leave it at that or maybe just shut the fuck up? idk.
“i finished college and knew the ins and outs of anal while she still thought she pees and fucks from the same hole.”
~~~oh yeah this is nash talking about their 10 year age gap. i simply cannot w him. oh and the way that he literally just had to keep informing the readers how big his dick is…like i’m about to cut it off if you don’t shut up rn 🔪
♡ emery:
i hate her. i really do. she had this thing where she would talk about words that made me feel stupid because i never heard them before. probably parker’s way of trying to make her writing aesthetic, but it was just so annoying. words like finifugal, tacenda, querencia, ya’aburnee, lagom, and so much more. don’t get me wrong…i love learning new words, but this was just not it. the way parker used these words literally didn’t make any sense. it was so random and it was supposed to make sense with the story, but the story itself didn’t make any sense so it was just a clusterfuck of confusion. like babes, please learn to walk before you run idk.
“by the time we fell asleep, i’d planted flowers in nash’s graveyard of haunted memories. wilted ones, because those were me. and he watered them with stormwater, because that was him.”
~~~girl wtf are you talking about😭
“it threw me off balance. i recovered slowly, like i’d suffered a career ending injury. kobe and his torn achilles. beckham and his snapped achilles. durant and his torn achilles. why are all these motherfuckers injuring their goddamn achilles?”
~~~you see…this is the shit i also couldn’t stand. these characters would say things like this. it just drags out what they’re originally trying to say, but by the end of what they’re saying…i wouldn’t even comprehend what they were trying to say because my comprehension was buried with all this nonsense. i swear this book should have only been a 150 page novella…or just not written at all :D
♡ nash
idk if i hate nash or emery more. when this man started talking about fate and destiny…omg it was so repetitive. he would talk about fate and destiny and give a bunch of different definitions trying to be poetic. it was the cringiest thing ever. like okay…i get it😭
“i wanted to raze it all to the ground. destroy his daughter. steal his money. break his friends. tear down his neighbors. kidnap the damned golden retriever.”
~~~oooooo i’m so scared. ladies and gentlemen…nash’s revenge plot against emery and her family for “killing” his dad even tho his dad died of a heart attack. nash trying to be a villian was so bad. the least scariest fictional character i’ve ever read about.
nash had so much potential to be a swoon worthy man, but the author royally screwed him over. i can’t even be mad at the characters lmao it all goes back to the author’s poor writing.
♡ final thoughts:
besties…i read these 700 pages so you don’t have to. if it’s on your tbr…please think about removing it because it is not worth the time. this book had a lot of potential to be good, but i just felt that literally nothing was going on the ENTIRE book. what made me fume the most was that emery and nash had sex and they both didn’t know it was them they were having sex with. emery and nash were also in an elevator, the lights were out and she didn’t know it was nash she was talking to. then for YEARS they were talking to each other anonymously on this texting app. they have basically known each other their whole lives, they literally grew up together because their families were close and you’re telling me that those three instances…you didn’t know it was him and vice versa?! please bffr😭i just can’t. then the worst part is they just concluded all of that to be fate😂i laugh.
“you fucked me thinking i was someone else?” my hypocrisy was lost on me. so what if i thought he was his brother? it was different. i was in love. he thought i was a married woman. okay, we both mistook one another for other people, but for my sanity’s sake, i needed to believe we were different.
~~~a mess. a whole mess! how is it different? oh because you’re so in love with his brother? girl get some help😭please, i beg. if you’re so in love then it definitely should’ve been you who figured out you weren’t fucking the right brother. but ANYWAYS. yeah. 1 star. i’d rate this negative stars if i could.
🥳i’m finally free!
this book brought out a side of me that doesn’t show a lot because my average rating for the books i read is around 4.25 stars. this review is so bad and poorly written, but at least it matches this book perfectly. i’m sorry it took so long for me to finally put up this review, but this book was just so bad that i seriously thought about not even writing a review for this one, but because ily all sm, here it is and i hope you enjoyed!😙now i need to recover and get out of this reading slump😩
♡♡♡:
oh hi…are you guys still here? all of that was a lot, but if you made it this far…i will be telling you guys the very few things i liked. don’t let any of this convince you to read this chunky book. i’ll quote all the good stuff for you to read here instead of reading 700 pages just to be disappointed in the end😩
like i said earlier…nash had so much potential. one of the main things i liked was that at the beginning of the book. nash beats the shit out of a guy who sexually assaulted emery…of course emery thought it was reed who did that for her, but no.
♡ scenes:
i remembered that night.
broken nose, rib, and leg. separated collar bone. dislocated shoulder. the scar on able's forehead i liked to smirk at.
"that was you?" i whispered to him. nash nodded. once.
“why?" my murmur went unnoticed by reed and betty. nash, however, never looked away from me.
"he hurt you."
~~~i actually loved this little scene and it made me feel like i was reading a totally different book.
nash’s hands shot out and steadied me when a car rounded the corner too closely.
my heart punched at my chest, rendering me too useless to protest as he swapped our positions, so he walked on the street side.
~~~this little gesture will always get me. i could’ve
swooned over this man, but nope.
i just want to know who wrote these little scenes because it couldn’t have been parker…this is why i said earlier in my review that she needed to pick a writing style. if she stuck with this one…the book would’ve been way better. there were other little gestures and scenes and maybe a few quotes i liked, but let’s just leave it at this because going back into my memories to dig for what i liked about this book is an actual chore and pointless when i know after i post this review…all will be forgotten. this little section was just for those who were curious about what i kinda liked about this book.
ps: i need to check my rating for darling venom because i think i rated it 5 stars and i remember liking it, but after reading this book i seriously can’t imagine myself liking any of her books💀
pre review:
parker s huntington…SIDE. EYE.
y’all are not ready for the review i’m about to give for this book. i will never forgive myself for not dnfing. there were definitely some swoon worthy moments…but this romance book had absolutely no business being 700 pages.
the review will be up sometime tomorrow! i’m too annoyed to write it rn🥲🥲
pre read (before disaster):
♡ the blurb: “welcome to eastridge. enter if you dare…”
now that is how you get someone to read your book! i’ve never been more intrigued🫣like yes…give me nothing, but just enough to make me wanna read it asap😋i feel like i’ve never gone into a book this blind. i’m soo excited🤭
is it a romance? dark romance?? a mystery??? i cannot wait to find out😗
ALSO WHY IS THIS BOOK 700 PAGES!?!?!?!?
hi! welcome to my rant review! please grab your popcorn and candy now😋oh and if you liked this book…look away now bestie, this review is not for you.
first things first…this book doesn’t even deserve one star, but here we are. the wait for this review is over hehe, enjoy!<33
thanks to parker s huntington and her ridiculous 700 page long, thick ass book…i’m now in a reading AND review slump. parker added that “this book may contain triggers” uh yeah! trigger warning: this book is terrible, may cause a reading slump, may die of boredom, etc. on a serious note the only trigger in there is sexual assault, but don’t worry you won’t have to read about it because i will be thoroughly convincing everyone NOT to read this book<3
you guys wanna hear the most funniest thing about this whole book!? at the beginning…there’s a note from the author and she was saying how it took her so long to finish this book. she scrapped the entire thing and started over and then finally…one day…it all just clicked. bahahahaha GIRL…WHAT EXACTLY CLICKED!? cuz it wasn’t any part of this book😳this is so harsh omg. i’m sure parker s huntington is a lovely person! i do give her props for writing a 700 page book too…i could never.
♡ playlist:
the only successful thing the author did was trap me with some of the songs listed on this playlist…
not about angels - birdy
a drop in the ocean - ron pope
skinny love - birdy
out of the woods- taylor swift
somewhere with you - kenny chesney
lover - taylor swift
ocean eyes - billie eilish
~~~first of all…who had blue eyes?! i don’t remember either of the mc’s having blue eyes LMAO. also when i finished this book…i immediately questioned why these songs were even put on the playlist. none of these fit with this story. i expected to SOB, but nope! :D the only sad thing about this whole experience was that i spent $20 on this book and then read all 700 pages.
okay where do i even begin with a book that i hated so much? hm let’s see…
♡ the lovely plot:
a whole lot of nothing. so we have emery who’s 22 and nash who’s 32. basically…the book starts with emery at age 15 and nash at age 25. emery is in love with nash’s younger brother, reed. he’s the same age as emery. reed has a gf tho so she can’t do anything about it. you kind of get these vibes that nash cares for emery and then we skip time and she’s now 18 and he’s 28. reed broke up with his gf so emery takes it upon herself to sneak into reed’s bedroom to have sex with him. the lights are off, it’s completely dark right. guys she ends up sleeping with nash. what kind of shit? like i’m sorry how is it that y’all don’t know who you’re having sex with especially when they’re literally TALKING. you’re telling me this girl was supposedly in love with reed, but she couldn’t tell that he’s not the guy she was having sex with? let’s bffr. then we skip time again to when emery is 22 and nash is 32. his dad died of a heart attack and he blames emery and her family and calls them all murderers and seeks to get revenge against her and her family. yeah. that’s the plot. a supposed “enemies to lovers” romance. garbage. boo boo caca. SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES OF THIS. why. just, why. who lied and said this book was good and ready to be sold…i wanna know. let’s talk. i have so many questions because if it were up to me…this book would not have seen the light of day.
♡ the writing:
so fucking inconsistent. the majority of the writing was so cringe that it felt like i was reading something worse than a wattpad story and then very little of the writing was good. parker…sweetie, PICK ONE! damn😭omg and then i felt like there was not a lot of dialogue. “but kendyl…the book was 700 pages, how can that be?” there was so much pointless shit…that’s what made this book so long was because you’re basically in the characters fucking heads and reading a bunch of their stupid thoughts. guys it was so bad that when characters were having conversations…i’d forget what the conversation was about because there would be so much shit in between the actual dialogue if that makes any sense. just a bunch of monologues put together. ALSO, the story would pick up from a different place and confuse the fuck out of me. like the beginning of a chapter would pick up exactly where the previous chapter ended and then during the chapters it would like change…it was so fucking backwards, i can’t even explain it. i won’t lie…i skimmed A LOT of this book. i found myself just reading the dialogue so that’s my secret on how i finished this 700 page book so quickly.
♡ the spice:
he put a cabinet knob in her ass. guys. i seriously cannot lmao. he also put the tip of a golf putter inside of her while they were at a golf course…why. oh he also calls her “tiger” and “little tiger”. it’s supposed to be this cute thing with some kind of poetic meaning behind it, but no. just no. i didn’t like it.
“you taste fucking wet to me, tiger, and i know you didn’t get wet for yourself.”
~~~alright. that’s enough. i don’t think i have to say much more about how terrible the spice was in this book.
♡ side characters:
i could not tell you guys a single thing about them. all i want to say is that every time nash or emery talked to the side characters…i would seriously skim and not take in anything of what they were saying because it was so boring. i didn’t understand why these characters were even written. definitely another reason why this book was so long. emery and nash might as well have been side characters too because i felt no connection to them. i didn’t sense any kind of chemistry either. how did i finish this book😩
♡ a good laugh:
“her nipples were hard as fuck, and they pointed right at me like two tiny sorting hats choosing my lips as their hogwarts house.”
~~~HELP ME LMAO. this had me literally gasping for air😂😂😂no wait the author wrote this…reread it and was like “oh yeah i ate”💀pls i’m crying. can you guys now understand why this book was so painfully long…because why not just say her nipples were hard and leave it at that or maybe just shut the fuck up? idk.
“i finished college and knew the ins and outs of anal while she still thought she pees and fucks from the same hole.”
~~~oh yeah this is nash talking about their 10 year age gap. i simply cannot w him. oh and the way that he literally just had to keep informing the readers how big his dick is…like i’m about to cut it off if you don’t shut up rn 🔪
♡ emery:
i hate her. i really do. she had this thing where she would talk about words that made me feel stupid because i never heard them before. probably parker’s way of trying to make her writing aesthetic, but it was just so annoying. words like finifugal, tacenda, querencia, ya’aburnee, lagom, and so much more. don’t get me wrong…i love learning new words, but this was just not it. the way parker used these words literally didn’t make any sense. it was so random and it was supposed to make sense with the story, but the story itself didn’t make any sense so it was just a clusterfuck of confusion. like babes, please learn to walk before you run idk.
“by the time we fell asleep, i’d planted flowers in nash’s graveyard of haunted memories. wilted ones, because those were me. and he watered them with stormwater, because that was him.”
~~~girl wtf are you talking about😭
“it threw me off balance. i recovered slowly, like i’d suffered a career ending injury. kobe and his torn achilles. beckham and his snapped achilles. durant and his torn achilles. why are all these motherfuckers injuring their goddamn achilles?”
~~~you see…this is the shit i also couldn’t stand. these characters would say things like this. it just drags out what they’re originally trying to say, but by the end of what they’re saying…i wouldn’t even comprehend what they were trying to say because my comprehension was buried with all this nonsense. i swear this book should have only been a 150 page novella…or just not written at all :D
♡ nash
idk if i hate nash or emery more. when this man started talking about fate and destiny…omg it was so repetitive. he would talk about fate and destiny and give a bunch of different definitions trying to be poetic. it was the cringiest thing ever. like okay…i get it😭
“i wanted to raze it all to the ground. destroy his daughter. steal his money. break his friends. tear down his neighbors. kidnap the damned golden retriever.”
~~~oooooo i’m so scared. ladies and gentlemen…nash’s revenge plot against emery and her family for “killing” his dad even tho his dad died of a heart attack. nash trying to be a villian was so bad. the least scariest fictional character i’ve ever read about.
nash had so much potential to be a swoon worthy man, but the author royally screwed him over. i can’t even be mad at the characters lmao it all goes back to the author’s poor writing.
♡ final thoughts:
besties…i read these 700 pages so you don’t have to. if it’s on your tbr…please think about removing it because it is not worth the time. this book had a lot of potential to be good, but i just felt that literally nothing was going on the ENTIRE book. what made me fume the most was that emery and nash had sex and they both didn’t know it was them they were having sex with. emery and nash were also in an elevator, the lights were out and she didn’t know it was nash she was talking to. then for YEARS they were talking to each other anonymously on this texting app. they have basically known each other their whole lives, they literally grew up together because their families were close and you’re telling me that those three instances…you didn’t know it was him and vice versa?! please bffr😭i just can’t. then the worst part is they just concluded all of that to be fate😂i laugh.
“you fucked me thinking i was someone else?” my hypocrisy was lost on me. so what if i thought he was his brother? it was different. i was in love. he thought i was a married woman. okay, we both mistook one another for other people, but for my sanity’s sake, i needed to believe we were different.
~~~a mess. a whole mess! how is it different? oh because you’re so in love with his brother? girl get some help😭please, i beg. if you’re so in love then it definitely should’ve been you who figured out you weren’t fucking the right brother. but ANYWAYS. yeah. 1 star. i’d rate this negative stars if i could.
🥳i’m finally free!
this book brought out a side of me that doesn’t show a lot because my average rating for the books i read is around 4.25 stars. this review is so bad and poorly written, but at least it matches this book perfectly. i’m sorry it took so long for me to finally put up this review, but this book was just so bad that i seriously thought about not even writing a review for this one, but because ily all sm, here it is and i hope you enjoyed!😙now i need to recover and get out of this reading slump😩
♡♡♡:
oh hi…are you guys still here? all of that was a lot, but if you made it this far…i will be telling you guys the very few things i liked. don’t let any of this convince you to read this chunky book. i’ll quote all the good stuff for you to read here instead of reading 700 pages just to be disappointed in the end😩
like i said earlier…nash had so much potential. one of the main things i liked was that at the beginning of the book. nash beats the shit out of a guy who sexually assaulted emery…of course emery thought it was reed who did that for her, but no.
♡ scenes:
i remembered that night.
broken nose, rib, and leg. separated collar bone. dislocated shoulder. the scar on able's forehead i liked to smirk at.
"that was you?" i whispered to him. nash nodded. once.
“why?" my murmur went unnoticed by reed and betty. nash, however, never looked away from me.
"he hurt you."
~~~i actually loved this little scene and it made me feel like i was reading a totally different book.
nash’s hands shot out and steadied me when a car rounded the corner too closely.
my heart punched at my chest, rendering me too useless to protest as he swapped our positions, so he walked on the street side.
~~~this little gesture will always get me. i could’ve
swooned over this man, but nope.
i just want to know who wrote these little scenes because it couldn’t have been parker…this is why i said earlier in my review that she needed to pick a writing style. if she stuck with this one…the book would’ve been way better. there were other little gestures and scenes and maybe a few quotes i liked, but let’s just leave it at this because going back into my memories to dig for what i liked about this book is an actual chore and pointless when i know after i post this review…all will be forgotten. this little section was just for those who were curious about what i kinda liked about this book.
ps: i need to check my rating for darling venom because i think i rated it 5 stars and i remember liking it, but after reading this book i seriously can’t imagine myself liking any of her books💀
pre review:
parker s huntington…SIDE. EYE.
y’all are not ready for the review i’m about to give for this book. i will never forgive myself for not dnfing. there were definitely some swoon worthy moments…but this romance book had absolutely no business being 700 pages.
the review will be up sometime tomorrow! i’m too annoyed to write it rn🥲🥲
pre read (before disaster):
♡ the blurb: “welcome to eastridge. enter if you dare…”
now that is how you get someone to read your book! i’ve never been more intrigued🫣like yes…give me nothing, but just enough to make me wanna read it asap😋i feel like i’ve never gone into a book this blind. i’m soo excited🤭
is it a romance? dark romance?? a mystery??? i cannot wait to find out😗
ALSO WHY IS THIS BOOK 700 PAGES!?!?!?!?
April 30, 2021
I've read quite a number of patronizing & condescending authors whose primary aim is to SHOW the reader just how smart they are.
Mostly they'll quote Homer or Dante or whomever they deem is lofty enough thinking it makes them seem smart.
FYI: it only makes you look pretentious while highlighting your lack of skill in writing a story that resonates.
Unfortunately, Huntington seems to have a Masters in gratuitous words that don't move the plot along hence the reason this book is a 700-kindle-page giant fluffball.
Yeah, no thanks.
February 1, 2024
I’m not taking anymore booktok romance recs for the rest of the year 😭
February 3, 2022
dnf @ 70%
i wanted to be different cause everyone was reading Darling Venom, but this did not work out 🤡 tbh i can't believe i made it this far.
🍁 the writing was a huge problem. things that could've been said in a sentence were said in five. it also seemed like the author went out of her way to use words that would have me feeling dumb af. some things were just so cringy, like:
??? why not just say her nipples were hard and leave it there.. what does harry potter have to do with it 💀
and there were SO many sentences in which the author felt the need to clarify things between brackets
(but then not say anything relevant at all).
🍁 the second-hand embarrassment i felt whenever Emery (h) spoke..
BHHAHH byeeee. she was obsessed with these weird words that nobody knows the meaning of. it was supposed to be a ✨quirky✨ trait but it was just so annoying to me😭
and she was so fond of embarrassing herself in front of Nash (H). within the first 10% of this novel, an 18-year-old Emery sneaks into her best friend's bedroom and sleeps with him, only to realize too late that she slept with his brother instead (28 y/o Nash). LET'S SUSPEND DISBELIEF and pretend it's possible that none of them realized they weren't who they thought they were. Emery spends the whole thing thinking she's fucking 18-year-old Reed, Nash's brother. but then when they turn on the lights and Nash confesses he thought she was someone else too, she blurts out:
the betraying body syndrome was strong with Emery. Nash would treat her like shit, and she'd be salivating over him 😭 for the record, i don't really like Nash either, but he said it perfectly here:
the nail in the coffin was when she let him stick a CABINET KNOB up her ass the first time they have sex after they reunite omg.. i was not ready for that🥴 also, this book was released during L.J. Shen's chisel/chocolate bar phase, so to me this just proves Parker Huntington and her are in fact the same person 😌
🍁 Nash was pretty insufferable too. when you feel the need to mention every five pages how big your dick is? sorry but that just screams small dick energy to me 😌
okay baby WE SEE YOU!! i know you have a big dick you don't have to remind me all the time🥰
also, i understand that he was hesitant towards Emery because of the 10 year age gap, but the way he phrased it sometimes was not it 😭
i don't know. it just grossed me out.
🍁 last but not least, the plot.. too many things were happening at once, and at the same time, nothing was going on. this book had SO MANY TROPES and i could never figure out where this was all going. guess i'll never find out because i dnfed the book 🤪 but to name a few, this had enemies to lovers, rich girl/poor boy (in the past), rich boy/not-so-rich heroine (present), heroine working for the hero, age gap, PENPALS (?!), etc. the penpals plot was by far the worst of all. how very convenient that these two have been messaging through an app for three years, sexting, saying "I love you" to each other yet never meet 🤨
there are at least three instances in which these two characters interact but DON'T RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER even though they have known each other THROUGHOUT THEIR WHOLE LIVES. like basically grew up together. first they have sex without recognizing who they are (!?""#$#& you would think Emery would realize she's not fucking an 18 year old and viceversa😭). then they meet at an elevator and because the lights go out, Emery doesn't know who she's talking to🤪 and then last through this messaging app.. where they talk for fucking years.
i can't. i just can't. i'm tempted to rate it 1 star. at first i kept reading because i thought they had chemistry, but not even that interests me anymore. the inner monologues are so incredibly long and boring. moral of the story: should trust the 1 star reviews next time 🥰
i wanted to be different cause everyone was reading Darling Venom, but this did not work out 🤡 tbh i can't believe i made it this far.
🍁 the writing was a huge problem. things that could've been said in a sentence were said in five. it also seemed like the author went out of her way to use words that would have me feeling dumb af. some things were just so cringy, like:
Emery’s arms wrapped across her chest, because no, I hadn’t been lying. Her nipples were hard as fuck, and they pointed right at me like two tiny sorting hats choosing my lips as their Hogwarts House.
??? why not just say her nipples were hard and leave it there.. what does harry potter have to do with it 💀
and there were SO many sentences in which the author felt the need to clarify things between brackets
(but then not say anything relevant at all).
“Umm…” She upped her smile until she resembled Jack Nicholson’s Joker and snagged a seat on the chair in front of my desk.
(For the record, Heath Ledger played the best Joker, and I’d annihilate anyone who argues with me about it.)
🍁 the second-hand embarrassment i felt whenever Emery (h) spoke..
Tufts of jet-black hair stuck up in several directions on his head, like he couldn’t be bothered to tame it. Cropped closely at the sides, he kept it long on top in silky, uncultivated waves.
Cafuné, I thought, disconcerted when I realized I’d whispered it.
Cafuné—the act of running your fingers through the hair of someone you love.
BHHAHH byeeee. she was obsessed with these weird words that nobody knows the meaning of. it was supposed to be a ✨quirky✨ trait but it was just so annoying to me😭
and she was so fond of embarrassing herself in front of Nash (H). within the first 10% of this novel, an 18-year-old Emery sneaks into her best friend's bedroom and sleeps with him, only to realize too late that she slept with his brother instead (28 y/o Nash). LET'S SUSPEND DISBELIEF and pretend it's possible that none of them realized they weren't who they thought they were. Emery spends the whole thing thinking she's fucking 18-year-old Reed, Nash's brother. but then when they turn on the lights and Nash confesses he thought she was someone else too, she blurts out:
“You fucked me thinking I was someone else?!”
My hypocrisy wasn’t lost on me. So what if I thought he was his brother? It was different. I was in love. He thought I was a married woman. Okay, we both mistook one another for other people, but for my sanity’s sake, I needed to believe we were different.
hahah okay babe whatever you say😭
the betraying body syndrome was strong with Emery. Nash would treat her like shit, and she'd be salivating over him 😭 for the record, i don't really like Nash either, but he said it perfectly here:
How desperate for attention was she that she needed to break into my penthouse and strip in my shower?
the nail in the coffin was when she let him stick a CABINET KNOB up her ass the first time they have sex after they reunite omg.. i was not ready for that🥴 also, this book was released during L.J. Shen's chisel/chocolate bar phase, so to me this just proves Parker Huntington and her are in fact the same person 😌
🍁 Nash was pretty insufferable too. when you feel the need to mention every five pages how big your dick is? sorry but that just screams small dick energy to me 😌
Emery needed money like I needed a bigger dick. Any more would be excessive.
Pressing the return button, I spared the guy feelings of inadequacy at the sight of my dick and stepped into the en suite bathroom before stripping out of my black Calvin Kleins.
okay baby WE SEE YOU!! i know you have a big dick you don't have to remind me all the time🥰
also, i understand that he was hesitant towards Emery because of the 10 year age gap, but the way he phrased it sometimes was not it 😭
I finished college and knew the ins and outs of anal while she still thought she pees and fucks from the same hole.
i don't know. it just grossed me out.
🍁 last but not least, the plot.. too many things were happening at once, and at the same time, nothing was going on. this book had SO MANY TROPES and i could never figure out where this was all going. guess i'll never find out because i dnfed the book 🤪 but to name a few, this had enemies to lovers, rich girl/poor boy (in the past), rich boy/not-so-rich heroine (present), heroine working for the hero, age gap, PENPALS (?!), etc. the penpals plot was by far the worst of all. how very convenient that these two have been messaging through an app for three years, sexting, saying "I love you" to each other yet never meet 🤨
there are at least three instances in which these two characters interact but DON'T RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER even though they have known each other THROUGHOUT THEIR WHOLE LIVES. like basically grew up together. first they have sex without recognizing who they are (!?""#$#& you would think Emery would realize she's not fucking an 18 year old and viceversa😭). then they meet at an elevator and because the lights go out, Emery doesn't know who she's talking to🤪 and then last through this messaging app.. where they talk for fucking years.
i can't. i just can't. i'm tempted to rate it 1 star. at first i kept reading because i thought they had chemistry, but not even that interests me anymore. the inner monologues are so incredibly long and boring. moral of the story: should trust the 1 star reviews next time 🥰
December 19, 2019
'DEVIOUS LIES' is the first full length romance book in 'Cruel Crown' series, by new to me author Parker S. Huntington.
Now and then you'll come across a book that is SO PHENOMENAL it sets itself apart from every other book you've read and leaves you FLABBERGASTED.
So today I kind of look bleary eyed and not so bushy tailed! I look as though I’ve been pulled through a hedge backwards!
Even though I cringed when I saw the amount of pages facing me, snail reader here, I kind of inhaled this one, devoured it, sleep is over rated anyways!! Because once started I literally could not put this down! Midnight zoomed past and I saw 3am in still with my nose in this book!
A slow burn that consumed all my waking moments! God how I loved these two characters, this book was beyond unique, sooooo many quotes were saved, all I see is a rainbow of highlighted words!
What a way to celebrate December, throw in a new to me author, an easy 5 star read, and characters that I loved equally, this book was the perfect reading material for a shitty cold rainy day! It did drag on a tad too long but overall I still enjoyed this..
Highly recommend!!
December 13, 2019
This was an absolute treat. A scorching hot enemies-to-lovers romance, with breathtaking prose and tons of suspense. Highly recommended.
November 2, 2023
Second read: 2 stars
First read: 5 stars
That rating plummeting makes me genuinely scared of rereading the rest of my 5 star books.
But damn 2019 me was so generous. Imagine me giving this 5 stars now? Not with Emery as the heroine💀 girl has a stick up her ass and it's never coming out. I know when Nash describes Emery as a "nut case" it was more of a hehe haha she is so endearing cause she's crazy<3 but like genuinely....she needs to calm tf down. Girl can't even watch a Disney movie without being annoying about it. She is the prime example of a person you'd say "you must be fun at parties" to.
One thing I can't deny though: Emery and Nash are perfect for eachother.
Considering he is also a miserable bastard.
why can't you guys have ONE conversation without being insufferable plz😭 For the record, this girl just poured her heart out about everyone, including the hero, lying to her and he went on a philosophical tangent about time not being real💀
Their conversations were giving 2013 fake deep tumblr quotes
The conflict in this book is probably what made it most unenjoyable for me. It was all based on the hero believing one out-of-context thing he heard, from the most untrustworthy person on this planet, that he held over the heroine's head for years, acting like she told some devious lies (omg look it's the title🤪) when he never even bothered to ask. That dumbed him down a ton in my eyes.
It was increasingly frustrating reading their 700 page back and forth, which god bless me, I thought was sooooooo profound the first time around. I'll tell you now, I have no clue what they talked about half the time. Who the fuck is Sisyphus😭 and why was he borderline a third main character, he was mentioned THAT much.
Every aspect of this book was so unnecessarily dramatic, from the descriptions to their non-stop wonnabe Aristotle ass conversations. They couldn't even take a pause during sex. HOW ABOUT ONE SILENT SEX SCENE WHERE Y'ALL DON'T WHISPER GIBBERISH IN EACHOTHER'S EARS??
Look at Nash's reaction to Emery living like a rat in a closet tho😂🤣🤣
Maybe I should live in a closet too. I mean damn did you run out of adjectives there, because why stop? Keep going.
See what I mean...about the dramatics? I really wish I could see them both in the same saintly light, but I think this book tried too hard with the whole "I feed the homeless, im so selfless and such a good person😩" script that I mostly cringed.
But...you know who my favourite character in this book was? The ceiling Emery had imaginary conversations with.
*Emery complaining about something or the other*
Emery: "Do you know what hiraeth is?"
*Emery once again complaining*
I realise that the ceiling is literally Emery talking to herself, so my question is why couldn't she ALWAYS be the ceiling?🤡
First read: 5 stars
That rating plummeting makes me genuinely scared of rereading the rest of my 5 star books.
But damn 2019 me was so generous. Imagine me giving this 5 stars now? Not with Emery as the heroine💀 girl has a stick up her ass and it's never coming out. I know when Nash describes Emery as a "nut case" it was more of a hehe haha she is so endearing cause she's crazy<3 but like genuinely....she needs to calm tf down. Girl can't even watch a Disney movie without being annoying about it. She is the prime example of a person you'd say "you must be fun at parties" to.
"This chick basically changes how she looks for a guy, then she wakes up on shore, and dudebro prince sees a hot naked chick and wants to smash? Are y'all for real?" Her southern accent strengthened the more worked up she got. Wide eyed and jaw unhinged, she looked manic"
One thing I can't deny though: Emery and Nash are perfect for eachother.
Considering he is also a miserable bastard.
"- I hope I'm looking into things. I hope it's bad timing-"
"Timing? There is no such thing as time. Time is something people made up to give value to each breath we take, to remind us that they're limited, that we should leap first and ask questions never."
why can't you guys have ONE conversation without being insufferable plz😭 For the record, this girl just poured her heart out about everyone, including the hero, lying to her and he went on a philosophical tangent about time not being real💀
Their conversations were giving 2013 fake deep tumblr quotes
The conflict in this book is probably what made it most unenjoyable for me. It was all based on the hero believing one out-of-context thing he heard, from the most untrustworthy person on this planet, that he held over the heroine's head for years, acting like she told some devious lies (omg look it's the title🤪) when he never even bothered to ask. That dumbed him down a ton in my eyes.
It was increasingly frustrating reading their 700 page back and forth, which god bless me, I thought was sooooooo profound the first time around. I'll tell you now, I have no clue what they talked about half the time. Who the fuck is Sisyphus😭 and why was he borderline a third main character, he was mentioned THAT much.
Every aspect of this book was so unnecessarily dramatic, from the descriptions to their non-stop wonnabe Aristotle ass conversations. They couldn't even take a pause during sex. HOW ABOUT ONE SILENT SEX SCENE WHERE Y'ALL DON'T WHISPER GIBBERISH IN EACHOTHER'S EARS??
Look at Nash's reaction to Emery living like a rat in a closet tho😂🤣🤣
"I've been living in a closet at the hotel."
Could she be any more self-sacrificial, infuriating, contradicting, confusing, generous, deviant, remarkable, or fucking goddamn consuming?
Maybe I should live in a closet too. I mean damn did you run out of adjectives there, because why stop? Keep going.
See what I mean...about the dramatics? I really wish I could see them both in the same saintly light, but I think this book tried too hard with the whole "I feed the homeless, im so selfless and such a good person😩" script that I mostly cringed.
But...you know who my favourite character in this book was? The ceiling Emery had imaginary conversations with.
*Emery complaining about something or the other*
Ceiling: Wow. The mom you hate and a guy you considered to be nothing more than a creep until last night lied to you. You seem so torn up about it. Here's a tissue.
Emery: "Do you know what hiraeth is?"
Ceiling: No, but I'm sure you'll tell me. I'd rather you didn't.
*Emery once again complaining*
Ceiling: You are worse than a broken record. At least record players can be turned off. Let me say it slower this time-
I realise that the ceiling is literally Emery talking to herself, so my question is why couldn't she ALWAYS be the ceiling?🤡
February 9, 2023
“Why is it that two people never realize how much they love each other until one of them says goodbye?”
I picked this up for two reasons:
-THE COVER
-Iqra loved it, and if Iqra likes a book, it means it must be awesome.
🐯𝗗𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗢𝗨𝗦 𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗦 - 𝗕𝗬 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗞𝗘𝗥 𝗦. 𝗛𝗨𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗢𝗡🐯
★𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦: ⭐⭐⭐⭐½
★𝗬𝗔/𝗡𝗔/𝗔: 🅽🅰/🅰
★𝗦𝗘𝗥𝗜𝗘𝗦: 𝙲𝚁𝚄𝙴𝙻 𝙲𝚁𝙾𝚆𝙽 #𝟷 𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙲𝙰𝙽 𝙱𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙰𝙳 𝙰𝚂 𝙰 𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙰𝙻𝙾𝙽𝙴
★𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦: 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝚂𝙼𝚄𝚃 - 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝙾𝙽𝙳 𝙲𝙷𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴
★𝗣𝗢𝗩: 𝙳𝙾𝚄𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝙿𝙾𝚅 - 𝙵𝙸𝚁𝚂𝚃 𝙿𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙾𝙽 - 𝙿𝙰𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝙴𝙽𝚂𝙴
★𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗦: 𝙱𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳'𝚂 𝙱𝚁𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁/𝙱𝚁𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁'𝚂 𝙱𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳 - 𝙴𝙽𝙴𝙼𝙸𝙴𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝙵𝚁𝙸𝙴𝙽𝙳𝚂 𝚃𝙾 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂 - 𝙼𝙸𝚂𝚄𝙽𝙳𝙴𝚁𝚂𝚃𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙸𝙽𝙶𝚂 - 𝟷𝟶 𝚈𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚂 𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙶𝙰𝙿 - 𝙶𝚁𝚄𝙼𝙿𝚈 𝚡 𝚂𝚄𝙽𝚂𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙴 - 𝙱𝙸𝙻𝙻𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙰𝙻𝙿𝙷𝙰𝚂𝚂𝙷𝙾𝙻𝙴 𝙼𝙼𝙲 - 𝙷𝙰𝚃𝙴𝚂 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝙱𝚄𝚃 𝙷𝙴𝚁 (𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙷𝙸𝚂 𝙼𝙾𝙼) - 𝚂𝚃𝚄𝙲𝙺 𝚃𝙾𝙶𝙴𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚁 - 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝚁𝙴𝚃 𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝚃𝙸𝙴𝚂 - 𝙵𝙰𝚃𝙴 𝙾𝚁 𝙲𝙾𝙸𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝚆𝙾𝚁𝙺𝙿𝙻𝙰𝙲𝙴 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝙵𝙾𝚁𝙲𝙴𝙳 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝚇𝙸𝙼𝙸𝚃𝚈 - 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝚁𝙴𝚃𝚂 - 𝚁𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝚃𝙾 𝙿𝙾𝙾𝚁 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝚅𝙸𝙲𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚂𝙰
★𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗦: 👥👥👥👥/5
★𝗪𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼✍🏼/5 (𝚂𝙾 𝚂𝙾 𝚂𝙾 𝙶𝙾𝙾𝙳)
★𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗧: 📜📜📜📜/5
★𝗗𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗦 & 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗚𝗚𝗘𝗥 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗦: 💀💀/5 (𝚁𝙴𝚅𝙴𝙽𝙶𝙴 𝙿𝙻𝙾𝚃 - 𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚃𝙷 𝙾𝙵 𝙰 𝙿𝙰𝚁𝙴𝙽𝚃 - 𝙿𝙾𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚃𝚈 - 𝙷𝚄𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 - 𝙿𝙾𝚆𝙴𝚁 𝙸𝙼𝙱𝙰𝙻𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 - 𝙳𝙸𝚂𝙵𝚄𝙽𝙲𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝙰𝙻 𝙵𝙰𝙼𝙸𝙻𝙸𝙴𝚂 - 𝙿𝙰𝚂𝚃 𝚃𝚁𝙰𝚄𝙼𝙰 - 𝙲𝙷𝙸𝙻𝙳 𝙿𝚂𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝙻𝙾𝙶𝙸𝙲𝙰𝙻 𝙰𝙱𝚄𝚂𝙴 - 𝙰𝚃𝚃𝙴𝙼𝙿𝚃𝙴𝙳 𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙴 - 𝚅𝙸𝙾𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴
★𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🔥🔥🔥/5 (𝙸𝙵 𝙰𝙳𝚄𝙻𝚃 𝚆𝙷𝚈 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙺𝚈)
★𝗦𝗠𝗨𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗬 & 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗬: 🚒🚒🚒/5 (𝚄𝙽𝙵𝙾𝚁𝚃𝚄𝙽𝙰𝚃𝙴𝙻𝚈 𝙽𝙾𝚃 𝙰𝚂 𝚂𝙼𝚄𝚃𝚃𝚈 𝙰𝚂 𝙸 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚄𝙶𝙷𝚃 𝙸𝚃'𝙳 𝙱𝙴)
★𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗧𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦: 🤐🤐🤐/5 (𝙲𝚄𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙽𝙶 - 𝙶𝚁𝙰𝙿𝙷𝙸𝙲 𝙳𝙴𝚂𝙲𝚁𝙸𝙿𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽𝚂 𝙾𝙵 𝚂𝙴𝚇/𝚅𝙸𝙾𝙻𝙴𝙽𝙲𝙴)
★𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘: 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹/5 (𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚂𝙴 𝚃𝚆𝙾 𝚃𝙷𝙴𝚂𝙴 𝚃𝚆𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾𝙾)
★𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗥𝗜𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘: ✔️
★𝗠𝗔𝗜𝗡 𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗘: 𝙵/𝙼
★𝗥𝗘𝗣: 𝙽𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝚁𝙴𝙻𝙴𝚅𝙰𝙽𝚃
★𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘𝗦-𝗧𝗢-𝗟𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗦𝗡𝗘𝗦𝗦: 🖤🖤🖤🖤/5 (𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙿𝙸𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙰𝙳 𝙼𝙴 𝙾𝙽 𝙼𝚈 𝙺𝙽𝙴𝙴𝚂)
★𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗚: 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙴𝙽𝚃𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙰𝙻𝙱𝚄𝙼 𝙱𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙼 𝙼𝙾𝚄𝙽𝚃𝙰𝙸𝙽 𝙱𝚈 𝙷𝙰𝚉𝙻𝙴𝚃𝚃
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If you go into this thinking it'll be the umpteenth novel filled with flying dicks and acrobatic sex, you've picked up the wrong book.
Don't get me wrong, dicks are flying and there's some smut, but this book is SO MUCH MORE than that.
It's not a 700-page long monstrosity for nothing, after all.
Devious Lies is the story of two souls who have lost their way and are trying to find it back, and end up finding each other (again) in the process.
If you read my little info recap up there, you might have noticed that the list of tropes goes on and on; this novel is, in fact, a trope soup that will leave you full for days. At first I coudln't decide if the thought of so many romance novel clichéès bothered me or amused me, but Huntington's writing was so good, the story so engrossing, the characters so deliciously flawed and imperfect yet so lagom, I couldn't help but let that one slide and go with the flow.
I enjoyed this way more once I decided to take it for what it was: a grandiose love story peppered with suffering and redemption and forgiveness and lies and cute words and a dog that looks like a rat and two main characters I'll probably remember for the rest of my days.
It was very emotional and very very very addicting.
There were so many things I loved about this book: the writing (honorable mention to the double pov that gave me two distinct voices thank god hallelujah), the plot, the romance, the s t e a m, but I'd like to repeat myself and praise the characterization of both Emery and Nash and their superlatively done romance and their even more remarkable connection.
I mean. Sure, you can tell this is fiction. The dialogues and actions felt very overblown sometimes (almost no one in real life talks like these two, but we're okay with that, but just in case I'll leave this here...👀) and it all was pretty cheesy and fanfictionesque at times, but it was the sort of cheese you'd put on a fuming plate of pasta.
The unnecessary yet infinitely enjoyable ultimate touch you can't help but appreciate.
I recommend this to hopeless romantics, people who daydream as a hobby, Greek mythology enthusiasts, those who love a histrionic dialogue, the brave souls who don't mind a trope or a hundred.
And obviously, I recommend this to whoever has eyes, too, of course, because that impossibly hot COVER is the cherry on top to a cake you didn't know you needed in your life, but definitely do.
Trust your penguin. You'll have your hands, stomach, heart, full for days.
Bon apétit.
🚩𝙿𝙾𝚂𝚂𝙸𝙱𝙻𝙴 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝙱𝙻𝙴𝙼𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙲 𝙲𝙾𝙽𝚃𝙴𝙽𝚃 𝙰𝙻𝙴𝚁𝚃!*🚩
*𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗𝚜 𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜, 𝚜𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍/𝚘𝚛 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙𝚜 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚖𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌/𝚝𝚘𝚡𝚒𝚌/𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚕 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚚𝚞𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎.
𝙸, 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚌𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚟𝚒𝚎𝚠, 𝚊𝚌𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚕𝚎𝚍𝚐𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚗𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍, 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚖𝚒𝚝𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚖𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚝 𝚣𝚘𝚗𝚎, 𝚌𝚑𝚘𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚝𝚘 𝚕𝚎𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚖𝚢 𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚘𝚢𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚛 𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎:
-𝙸 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚝𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢;
-𝙸 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚎𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚘𝚛𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎;
-𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚘𝚛 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚝𝚘𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚜 𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚒𝚗 "𝚙𝚛𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚌" 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜/𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚙𝚜/𝚌𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚍𝚘𝚗'𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍𝚗'𝚝 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚒𝚗𝚎 𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗;
-𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚐𝚘𝚝𝚝𝚊 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍 𝙾𝙽𝙴 𝙾𝙵 𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚂𝙴 𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺𝚂, 𝚢'𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠?
August 31, 2024
{God this review is slightly unhinged…}
#𝟮 𝗥𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Yep. I’m still madly in love with Nash and Emery. They’re so beautifully matched. They’re soulmates and it shows.
I can’t help but devour Parker S Huntington’s writing. Half the things said in this book really made me think and marvel at the ideas. The emotions she makes me feel for her characters? It’s a blessing and a curse. I feel love when they feel love, I embody the pain when they get hurt, I go through everything with them like they are me and I am them. ❤️🩹
Their relationship before everything went down was actually really adorable.
Him taking her side every time? Swoon.
The way he knew her little quirks and thoughts?
Marry me already!
The small moments did it for me. 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘. 👏 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄. 👏 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄. 👏
ALSO THE WHO-DID-THIS-TO-YOU TROPE??
The I-ran-to-his-arms-for-comfort trope?? 🙆♀️
Him slipping his suit jacket over her shoulders?? 🤭
You bet I ate that shit up like a starved seagull 🤠 (by far one of my fav parts in the book—even though the reason for it was disturbing)
He calls her “𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫” and Gah! This nickname for her was the most cutest shit ever and I’m in LOVE. The meaning behind it. The metaphor. Just everything about it is perfect.
𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗵 is so fucking sarcastic I love it. The things he says make me gasp because he’s so unapologetic about the way knows he’s an asshole. And his inner monologue makes me shake with laughter constantly.
What I love more: he’s a grump but still a caring, kind hearted person that’s too hard on himself which Emery notices and cherishes. I love his awareness and philosophical brain.
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆. 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆. 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆.
I love her so much. She’s has such a beautiful soul which Nash notices and appreciates. I find it so amusing how she manipulates the situation to get what she wants and vice versa. Her obsession with the sky and obscure words made me love her that much more because of the way she used them to explain her unique ideas.
I hate what she went through to get to the end point but it was all worth it 🥹💕
ALSO THE GROVELLING IN THIS BOOK IS 𝙎𝙐𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙊𝙍. I’m sorry, you can’t convince me otherwise.
The notes?! 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑳𝑼𝑵𝑪𝑯 𝑵𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑾𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑼𝑵𝑫𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑮.
AHH THE PLACARD DAMN NEAR MADE ME CRY!
Every single page was *MWAH*
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
I’m really looking forward to reading about Delilah’s book bc her energy is what I need in my life.
(The guy on the cover tho 🤌)
𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀: 🎧
H2O - Naïka
Ma Chérie - Naïka
Close - VI NIQ
WHO HURT YOU - Benicio Bryant
𝗙𝗮𝘃 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: (I highlighted the 𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘛 out of this book)
“𝐂𝐚𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐞́—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.”
“𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐝.
𝐀 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐈’𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.
𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝, “𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲, 𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫.”
~🤭💗
“𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐈 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.
𝐈𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛����𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐜-𝐓𝐚𝐜-𝐓𝐨𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐮𝐩.”
~💘💕
“𝐈’𝐦 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐤. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮.”
~AWWHH <3
“𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲”
~😂💃💃
“𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲?”
~I’d like to think so bc if I’m not then my sister’s been lying to me 😂 but damn this really made me put things into perspective
“𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧.
𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬.
𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.”
~crying in a bathtub
“𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲.
𝐌𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞.”
~THIS. RIGHT. HERE. Boyfriend material 💘
“𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦.”
~Why is this so fucking true?!
“𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝.
𝑰 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅.”
~he gets it <3
“𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲.
𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞.
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭.
𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.
𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍.
𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐭.”
“𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝.
𝐀 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞.
𝒀𝒂’𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒆.”
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀:
Mr wrong number - Lynn Painter
Misfits like us - Krista & Becca Ritchie
Right - Jana Aston
Vicious - LJ Shen
Corrupt - Penelope Douglas
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#𝟭 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Beautifully written. Their relationship was complex and heavy but their journey was delicious to read.
The tension? SCRUMPTIOUS.
Parker has done it again and I’m in love with these characters.
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
The lunch packs 🥲🤌
#𝟮 𝗥𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗔𝘂𝗴𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Yep. I’m still madly in love with Nash and Emery. They’re so beautifully matched. They’re soulmates and it shows.
I can’t help but devour Parker S Huntington’s writing. Half the things said in this book really made me think and marvel at the ideas. The emotions she makes me feel for her characters? It’s a blessing and a curse. I feel love when they feel love, I embody the pain when they get hurt, I go through everything with them like they are me and I am them. ❤️🩹
Their relationship before everything went down was actually really adorable.
Him taking her side every time? Swoon.
The way he knew her little quirks and thoughts?
Marry me already!
The small moments did it for me. 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘. 👏 𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄. 👏 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄. 👏
ALSO THE WHO-DID-THIS-TO-YOU TROPE??
The I-ran-to-his-arms-for-comfort trope?? 🙆♀️
Him slipping his suit jacket over her shoulders?? 🤭
You bet I ate that shit up like a starved seagull 🤠 (by far one of my fav parts in the book—even though the reason for it was disturbing)
He calls her “𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫” and Gah! This nickname for her was the most cutest shit ever and I’m in LOVE. The meaning behind it. The metaphor. Just everything about it is perfect.
𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗵 is so fucking sarcastic I love it. The things he says make me gasp because he’s so unapologetic about the way knows he’s an asshole. And his inner monologue makes me shake with laughter constantly.
What I love more: he’s a grump but still a caring, kind hearted person that’s too hard on himself which Emery notices and cherishes. I love his awareness and philosophical brain.
𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆. 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆. 𝗘𝗺𝗲𝗿𝘆.
I love her so much. She’s has such a beautiful soul which Nash notices and appreciates. I find it so amusing how she manipulates the situation to get what she wants and vice versa. Her obsession with the sky and obscure words made me love her that much more because of the way she used them to explain her unique ideas.
I hate what she went through to get to the end point but it was all worth it 🥹💕
ALSO THE GROVELLING IN THIS BOOK IS 𝙎𝙐𝙋𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙊𝙍. I’m sorry, you can’t convince me otherwise.
The notes?! 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑳𝑼𝑵𝑪𝑯 𝑵𝑶𝑻𝑬𝑺 𝑾𝑬𝑹𝑬 𝑴𝒀 𝑭𝑼𝑪𝑲𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑼𝑵𝑫𝑶𝑰𝑵𝑮.
AHH THE PLACARD DAMN NEAR MADE ME CRY!
Every single page was *MWAH*
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
I’m really looking forward to reading about Delilah’s book bc her energy is what I need in my life.
(The guy on the cover tho 🤌)
𝗦𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀: 🎧
H2O - Naïka
Ma Chérie - Naïka
Close - VI NIQ
WHO HURT YOU - Benicio Bryant
𝗙𝗮𝘃 𝗤𝘂𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀: (I highlighted the 𝘚𝘏𝘐𝘛 out of this book)
“𝐂𝐚𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐞́—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞.”
“𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐝.
𝐀 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐈’𝐝 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤.
𝐇𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝, “𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐲, 𝐓𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐫.”
~🤭💗
“𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥, 𝐈 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐦 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤, 𝐡𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐠𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲.
𝐈𝐟 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐈 𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐰 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛����𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐢𝐜-𝐓𝐚𝐜-𝐓𝐨𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐝. 𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐮𝐩.”
~💘💕
“𝐈’𝐦 𝐚 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐤. 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮.”
~AWWHH <3
“𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐥𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐲𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲”
~😂💃💃
“𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲?”
~I’d like to think so bc if I’m not then my sister’s been lying to me 😂 but damn this really made me put things into perspective
“𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬. 𝐈 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧.
𝐇𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬.
𝑯𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔.”
~crying in a bathtub
“𝐍𝐚𝐬𝐡’𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐲.
𝐌𝐲 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭, 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, 𝐬𝐨 𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞.”
~THIS. RIGHT. HERE. Boyfriend material 💘
“𝐆𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭. 𝐒𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐜𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞. 𝐍𝐞𝐱𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰, 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦.”
~Why is this so fucking true?!
“𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐭, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐟 𝐢𝐭 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝.
𝑰 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅.”
~he gets it <3
“𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲.
𝐎𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞.
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭.
𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.
𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒊𝒇𝒖𝒍.
𝐀 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐢𝐭.”
“𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝.
𝐀 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞.
𝒀𝒂’𝒂𝒃𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒆.”
𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘀:
Mr wrong number - Lynn Painter
Misfits like us - Krista & Becca Ritchie
Right - Jana Aston
Vicious - LJ Shen
Corrupt - Penelope Douglas
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#𝟭 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮
Beautifully written. Their relationship was complex and heavy but their journey was delicious to read.
The tension? SCRUMPTIOUS.
Parker has done it again and I’m in love with these characters.
𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲:
The lunch packs 🥲🤌
December 25, 2019
Unexpectedly Amazing!
“Falling in love with you is like diving blindly into a book, not knowing it’s destined to be my favorite. Whatever’s more than love, I feel it for you. I am only ever going to be in love with you.”
Wow, I totally didn’t expect this book and how much I was going to love it. It blew my mind. This book has a gorgeous cover, which is the first thing I noticed. Then it kept popping everywhere and being recommended by a lot of people, and to be honest that always scares me because so many times before I haven’t loved books that everyone else loves. Well, I’m happy to say that this time they were right with the recommendation cause this book was all sorts of amazing and it hooked me from the first word.
This was one amazing childhood friends turned enemies turned lovers story, with the most amazing combination of humor and angst I’ve read in a while. And the writing was just superb! Smart. Funny. Almost Poetic. I totally dig it.
Nash and Emery are basically everything! Emery is my favorite kind of heroine, feisty, strong, smart, simply amazing. And Nash, oh man, love me some Nash. A broken hero with a huge heart that falls madly in love and it’s just incredible to watch his evolution. Can’t get over their amazing chemistry and their ridiculously funny banter. Total equals, just how I love it.
I honestly went into this one completely blind and was fully hooked. There’s so much amazing dialogue and so many feels! Just so many incredible moments and quotes, many twists and turns, and so much swoon-worthy stuff! Bam, hooked, obsessed with this book and this story! And the epilogues!!!! Ahhhh you know how much I love a good epilogue, and this one has two amazing ones.
This is my first book from this author but it definitely won’t be my last. This book was simply perfection from beginning to end, I just couldn’t put it down, it was that good. Like I said, I wasn’t expecting this one but without a doubt it’s one of my favorite books this year. Can’t wait for what will be next in this series. Reed? Delilah? I’m totally in!
PS: The audiobook is also pretty awesome!
“Fate is a hurricane. You think you know where it's going. You think you're safe. And just when you think you’ve weathered the storm, its path moves directly into yours. You, Emery Winthrop, are my hurricane. My fate. My Durga. My Tiger.”
“Falling in love with you is like diving blindly into a book, not knowing it’s destined to be my favorite. Whatever’s more than love, I feel it for you. I am only ever going to be in love with you.”
Wow, I totally didn’t expect this book and how much I was going to love it. It blew my mind. This book has a gorgeous cover, which is the first thing I noticed. Then it kept popping everywhere and being recommended by a lot of people, and to be honest that always scares me because so many times before I haven’t loved books that everyone else loves. Well, I’m happy to say that this time they were right with the recommendation cause this book was all sorts of amazing and it hooked me from the first word.
This was one amazing childhood friends turned enemies turned lovers story, with the most amazing combination of humor and angst I’ve read in a while. And the writing was just superb! Smart. Funny. Almost Poetic. I totally dig it.
Nash and Emery are basically everything! Emery is my favorite kind of heroine, feisty, strong, smart, simply amazing. And Nash, oh man, love me some Nash. A broken hero with a huge heart that falls madly in love and it’s just incredible to watch his evolution. Can’t get over their amazing chemistry and their ridiculously funny banter. Total equals, just how I love it.
I honestly went into this one completely blind and was fully hooked. There’s so much amazing dialogue and so many feels! Just so many incredible moments and quotes, many twists and turns, and so much swoon-worthy stuff! Bam, hooked, obsessed with this book and this story! And the epilogues!!!! Ahhhh you know how much I love a good epilogue, and this one has two amazing ones.
This is my first book from this author but it definitely won’t be my last. This book was simply perfection from beginning to end, I just couldn’t put it down, it was that good. Like I said, I wasn’t expecting this one but without a doubt it’s one of my favorite books this year. Can’t wait for what will be next in this series. Reed? Delilah? I’m totally in!
PS: The audiobook is also pretty awesome!
“Fate is a hurricane. You think you know where it's going. You think you're safe. And just when you think you’ve weathered the storm, its path moves directly into yours. You, Emery Winthrop, are my hurricane. My fate. My Durga. My Tiger.”
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May 22, 2022I ABSOLUTELY struggled to finish chapter 8!! I almost cried!
The writing was very descriptive and extended with no reason. There were parts that made me question my no-native english language because I couldn’t comprehend what I was reading and the reason of the plot.
It was indeed slow burn, as the author stated, but too much for my preferences.
This might be an epic love story or a great book, I am trully happy for the readers who were thrilled, but it was not for me.
No, thank you.
The writing was very descriptive and extended with no reason. There were parts that made me question my no-native english language because I couldn’t comprehend what I was reading and the reason of the plot.
It was indeed slow burn, as the author stated, but too much for my preferences.
This might be an epic love story or a great book, I am trully happy for the readers who were thrilled, but it was not for me.
No, thank you.
December 30, 2019
This by far has taken me the longest to finish a book as it just dragged on....The first 40% was a confusing mess. I’m still not sure I quite understand it’s purpose other than rambling. From Emery muttering “pretty words”... each chapter was something more rediculous...
Toska.
Lucano.
Kalon.
Anagapenis.
But yet they aren’t pretty words they are just stupid words no one’s heard of. I think this book was written to either make us feel dumb or to prepare for the SAT. Not sure but I’ve done more googling to get the meaning of these words than anything else.
Sisyphus
Morosis
Solivagant
Drapetomania
And the notes that Nash writes to Emery. They aren’t notes but paragraphs of monologues. Who writes such long notes to leave in a lunchbox? It’s like it’s torn out of his diary....
Saudade
Sciamata
Thanatopodia.
More useless words. Yes she’s take to a thesaurus to just add more content and waste our time.
Lagom. Not too little. Not too much. just right. Well this was not that. This story was waaayy over the top.
Nyctophilia.
Basorexia.
Ibrat.
I think Nash even said “what does that even mean.” I’m with him. With all her bantering and weird vocabulary, still more words.
Alexithymthia.
Yup. Still feeling like I crammed for the SAT. Forgot everything I just googled.
Redamancy.
And these words came while Fucking in between thrusts.
Nepenthe.
Moira.
Duende.
Lacuna.
Part 4. Funifugal meaning Prolonging the ending. Why didn’t she take this as advise and cut half this story up and make it flow?
I kept looking at the % to end and it just wouldn’t end!!!
I did slightly like Emery.
I’m sorta not feeling anyone else’s story intriguing in this book and I didn’t really like them much. I really should have given up after chapter 2 but I just had to know if this was how it was going to go. I mostly laughed my way through, and well, it did improve at the very end and that’s why it’s not a flat out 1 star. 1.5 stars. It’s a Hard pass to continue with the series.
Toska.
Lucano.
Kalon.
Anagapenis.
But yet they aren’t pretty words they are just stupid words no one’s heard of. I think this book was written to either make us feel dumb or to prepare for the SAT. Not sure but I’ve done more googling to get the meaning of these words than anything else.
Sisyphus
Morosis
Solivagant
Drapetomania
And the notes that Nash writes to Emery. They aren’t notes but paragraphs of monologues. Who writes such long notes to leave in a lunchbox? It’s like it’s torn out of his diary....
Saudade
Sciamata
Thanatopodia.
More useless words. Yes she’s take to a thesaurus to just add more content and waste our time.
Lagom. Not too little. Not too much. just right. Well this was not that. This story was waaayy over the top.
Nyctophilia.
Basorexia.
Ibrat.
I think Nash even said “what does that even mean.” I’m with him. With all her bantering and weird vocabulary, still more words.
Alexithymthia.
Yup. Still feeling like I crammed for the SAT. Forgot everything I just googled.
Redamancy.
And these words came while Fucking in between thrusts.
Nepenthe.
Moira.
Duende.
Lacuna.
Part 4. Funifugal meaning Prolonging the ending. Why didn’t she take this as advise and cut half this story up and make it flow?
I kept looking at the % to end and it just wouldn’t end!!!
I did slightly like Emery.
I’m sorta not feeling anyone else’s story intriguing in this book and I didn’t really like them much. I really should have given up after chapter 2 but I just had to know if this was how it was going to go. I mostly laughed my way through, and well, it did improve at the very end and that’s why it’s not a flat out 1 star. 1.5 stars. It’s a Hard pass to continue with the series.
January 3, 2020
Who told you that you could write? Because they lied.
April 19, 2025
Re-read 1/2/22
I swear this book is better the second time around. It's so beautiful. The lunch notes are some of my favorite parts of the book. I still have so many questions about Reed. I need to check if he has a book.
12/19/19 This is the first book I have read from this author and I was not disappointed Beautifully written. One of my top books of the year, and the longest books I have read in a long time and I enjoyed every page. A must-read book.
I swear this book is better the second time around. It's so beautiful. The lunch notes are some of my favorite parts of the book. I still have so many questions about Reed. I need to check if he has a book.
12/19/19 This is the first book I have read from this author and I was not disappointed Beautifully written. One of my top books of the year, and the longest books I have read in a long time and I enjoyed every page. A must-read book.
December 18, 2019
3,5. Well I think this book would be epic if the author didn’t spend pages and pages writing about meaningless stuffs.
Yeah, this story is great with so much potential, but it get boring and unbelievable sometimes.
Yeah, this story is great with so much potential, but it get boring and unbelievable sometimes.
December 24, 2019
Devious Lies is an addictive, angsty romance with unique characters, chemistry so hot it singed the pages of my Kindle and tons of laugh-out-loud moments that had me cracking up laughing. A must-read if you enjoy well-written enemies-to-lovers slow-burn romance.
February 27, 2025
The book sounded like it could be amazing at first, with an interesting backstory that had me hooked. But, ugh, what a letdown! The pacing was soooo slow, and there were endless, boring monologues that just dragged on and on—so unnecessary. The romantic tension? Please. It was so forced it felt fake, like the characters were just going through the motions with no real spark. I couldn’t care less about their relationship.
May 15, 2023
There are somethings, despite the fact you abhor them, you just can’t stay away? Parker S Huntington seems to be that for me.
In simple terms, her male leads insufferable. I want to bang their heads against a wall. One saving grace is that the female leads have some spark in them but apparently lust triumphs any feminist bone in them and they are all masochists. At least Nash was somewhat better than Tate. Tate was just……….. a horrible human being in general. Nash was redeemable compared to him. Apparently men who like to dirty talk to women and humiliate them to no ends is a turn on. Unless I belong to another species, I have no whatsoever liking to those who bend over backwards for a man who manages to insult them at every turning corner. Figuratively and literally.
All I can say is I am glad this is fiction.
Also despite my mini rant would I be picking up my next Parker S Huntington book? Of course. Did I not compare her to addiction in the first line of this review? Well let me confirm it now, she’s my addiction despite me wanting to scream in her face to write some actual green-flag-significant others.
In simple terms, her male leads insufferable. I want to bang their heads against a wall. One saving grace is that the female leads have some spark in them but apparently lust triumphs any feminist bone in them and they are all masochists. At least Nash was somewhat better than Tate. Tate was just……….. a horrible human being in general. Nash was redeemable compared to him. Apparently men who like to dirty talk to women and humiliate them to no ends is a turn on. Unless I belong to another species, I have no whatsoever liking to those who bend over backwards for a man who manages to insult them at every turning corner. Figuratively and literally.
All I can say is I am glad this is fiction.
Also despite my mini rant would I be picking up my next Parker S Huntington book? Of course. Did I not compare her to addiction in the first line of this review? Well let me confirm it now, she’s my addiction despite me wanting to scream in her face to write some actual green-flag-significant others.
December 20, 2019
2. 5 stars
The fault in this book lies in the fact that it's unnecessarily way too long.... over 300 pages could easily have been edited out and the story could've progressed better. the other downfall was the lack of conflict in the book, for a book that's 700 pages long the plot was the most simplistic predictable shit ever... i was literally bored in certain instances and read further only because I wanted to stick around for the conclusion cause I was already in too deep knowing and predicting full well what's gonna happen and voila it did cause that's how predictable the plot was.
now on to the characters, they were interesting but didn't keep me on my toes or made me love them as a book should... I've read shit ton of books where the plot is meh but the characters are lit and this book missed on both the accounts.
all in all a very disappointing read.
The fault in this book lies in the fact that it's unnecessarily way too long.... over 300 pages could easily have been edited out and the story could've progressed better. the other downfall was the lack of conflict in the book, for a book that's 700 pages long the plot was the most simplistic predictable shit ever... i was literally bored in certain instances and read further only because I wanted to stick around for the conclusion cause I was already in too deep knowing and predicting full well what's gonna happen and voila it did cause that's how predictable the plot was.
now on to the characters, they were interesting but didn't keep me on my toes or made me love them as a book should... I've read shit ton of books where the plot is meh but the characters are lit and this book missed on both the accounts.
all in all a very disappointing read.
March 15, 2020
Devious Lies, by Parker S. Huntington, kept me up til 2am reading. I'll admit the beginning of the book had a lot of background/foundational information that kept me re-reading a few pages to make sure I understood the characterizations and their assigned roles, but once that was accomplished, I found myself drawn in by the author's beautiful writing, and the characters of Nash and Emery--loved them. I especially loved Emery's unique and quirky nuances, along with her unapologetic personality. Gotta love a fighter with a heart--same for Nash. I won't give much of the plot away, but when I finished reading Devious Lies, I was so impressed by Huntington's ability to weave the plot's threads as artfully as she did...that takes a lot of thinking, re-thinking and planning as a writer. Awesome talent. I also thought the witty banter and sharp-tongued duels were well-done! Some made me smile, others I found myself wincing with their power. Again, the writing and plot agenda were in alignment. Was the book a little long with too many flashback segments, yes, but as a reader, I have the luxury of speed-reading...as the author, I understand she's trying to convey the history of these two wounded people to create depth and understanding. Personally, I'd rather have too much information, than have plot holes my brain can't crawl out of! Sending a big high-five to Parker S. Huntingon, and her support team for working through all the twists and turns of Devious Lies. Blessings, R. W. Patterson
June 21, 2022
the way i could not put this book down 😭
emery and nash are literally perfection sorry but anyone who says otherwise can go to hell for all i care-
i CAN'T tell you how much i loved everything about them, i'm officially a fucking goner for them
“Come back to me?”
“Always”
this book was long and even then by the time it ended i was like that's it?? i. want. more.
no seriously it just consumed me in every possible way
EMERY?? SUCH A QUEEN I CAN'T
and NASH. FUCKING. PRESCOTT.
excuse me sir, who gave you the right to be so mfing hot
i was literally crying in pain over how perfect he is 😭
all i can think is perfect,
EVERYTHING about this story- perfect
nash- perfect
emery- perfect
them together- more perfect
this book- perfect perfect PERFECT
did i get my point across?
if possible i'd like a lifetime supply of emery and nash every month please and thank you (do take this seriously, i really mean it)
emery and nash are literally perfection sorry but anyone who says otherwise can go to hell for all i care-
i CAN'T tell you how much i loved everything about them, i'm officially a fucking goner for them
“Come back to me?”
“Always”
this book was long and even then by the time it ended i was like that's it?? i. want. more.
no seriously it just consumed me in every possible way
EMERY?? SUCH A QUEEN I CAN'T
and NASH. FUCKING. PRESCOTT.
excuse me sir, who gave you the right to be so mfing hot
i was literally crying in pain over how perfect he is 😭
all i can think is perfect,
EVERYTHING about this story- perfect
nash- perfect
emery- perfect
them together- more perfect
this book- perfect perfect PERFECT
did i get my point across?
if possible i'd like a lifetime supply of emery and nash every month please and thank you (do take this seriously, i really mean it)
December 30, 2019
DNF at chapter 31 :(
I really tried, but unfortunately, I couldn't connect to the story and didn't feel the chemistry between the characters...
I really tried, but unfortunately, I couldn't connect to the story and didn't feel the chemistry between the characters...
January 11, 2020
ok. It’s been a while since I’ve come across a book where I felt like I was so bored out of my mind that I just ended up skimming through the pages and then stopped where I felt like something interesting was finally going to happen.
Look it’s really not surprising that the blurb made the book sound super enticing. Plus I was digging the whole age gap part. But then I started reading the book and things started getting a little too unrealistic and might I say odd (in a not cute or endearing way) and pretentious?
Moving on!
Look it’s really not surprising that the blurb made the book sound super enticing. Plus I was digging the whole age gap part. But then I started reading the book and things started getting a little too unrealistic and might I say odd (in a not cute or endearing way) and pretentious?
Moving on!
May 30, 2021
***First read: 29th Dec'19***
Rating: 5-stars
***Re-read: 30th May'21***
Rating: 5-stars
'I had no intention of suffering eternal punishment for my sins.'
Who was the devious liar, Nash or Emery? They are so good at hiding their thoughts, their secrets/feelings are not revealed until they hurt each other. This age-gap, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance is my favourite by Hunter S. Parker.
'Girls like Emery Winthrop were the finish line, the goal you worked for, the place you strived to reach, the smile you saw when you closed your eyes and wondered why you even bothered.'
Emery Winthrop was the rich, sweet and fiery girl. Her favoured friends were the servants children, Reed, her best friend through and through and Nash, her best friends brother who was a quite person in the background but is always there to help Reed and Emery out of trouble.
'Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes.'
Nash is the crafty brother, he has always put his families needs before him. His first impression would be he never gave a fig about anyones interest, but he has a big heart that's hidden behind his crafty nature.
Years later the tables have turned, Emery is living in closet barely scrapping monies to tackle a day and Nash is the wealthy monster who seeks revenge on any Winthrop. Nash and Emery meet at different circumstances this time. She knew he was going to stomp her all over. He was her boss and she needed the job even if there was contempt and rage plastered on his face whenever he saw her. He was gorgeous, arrogant and insufferable. He never spared her symphathy. Emery was once the attention seeking girl now she was lonely,
tiny and insignificant. While their war raged on their bodies never forgot that one night they mistakenly slept with each other. Nash kept pushing her down and Emery fights back up, in the end she is showering in front of my boss and skipping work to fuck him.
I enjoyed almost every bit of the story. Nothing felt predictible. Their angry encounters, the hate and lust moment was my fuel to continue the book. My only complain there is less sex and more sexual tension in this huge book. Also the second best thing in this book is Nash and Delilah moments, she always throws shit on him. I like her. Highly recommend this book if you crave an enemies-to-lovers romance.
(Previous review)
MC characters: Devious Lies consumes us in a heartbreaking tale of Emery Winthrop, a passionate girl who puts new words on T-shirts everyday. Nash Prescott, a man driven by goal for penance and revenge on Emery's family.
The play: A devious mother, a doting father, a scandal and lots of mysteries wrap the MC's. The writing had skill and was simple. Glad I came across this book.
Book ingredients: Includes age-gap, rich hero-poor heroine, enemies to lovers romance.
It's a lengthy book and very consuming.
Rating: 5-stars
***Re-read: 30th May'21***
Rating: 5-stars
'I had no intention of suffering eternal punishment for my sins.'
Who was the devious liar, Nash or Emery? They are so good at hiding their thoughts, their secrets/feelings are not revealed until they hurt each other. This age-gap, friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance is my favourite by Hunter S. Parker.
'Girls like Emery Winthrop were the finish line, the goal you worked for, the place you strived to reach, the smile you saw when you closed your eyes and wondered why you even bothered.'
Emery Winthrop was the rich, sweet and fiery girl. Her favoured friends were the servants children, Reed, her best friend through and through and Nash, her best friends brother who was a quite person in the background but is always there to help Reed and Emery out of trouble.
'Nash Prescott was thrift-shop beauty, threadbare and jaded, the memory of something once beautiful lingering as he looked on the world with war-torn eyes.'
Nash is the crafty brother, he has always put his families needs before him. His first impression would be he never gave a fig about anyones interest, but he has a big heart that's hidden behind his crafty nature.
Years later the tables have turned, Emery is living in closet barely scrapping monies to tackle a day and Nash is the wealthy monster who seeks revenge on any Winthrop. Nash and Emery meet at different circumstances this time. She knew he was going to stomp her all over. He was her boss and she needed the job even if there was contempt and rage plastered on his face whenever he saw her. He was gorgeous, arrogant and insufferable. He never spared her symphathy. Emery was once the attention seeking girl now she was lonely,
tiny and insignificant. While their war raged on their bodies never forgot that one night they mistakenly slept with each other. Nash kept pushing her down and Emery fights back up, in the end she is showering in front of my boss and skipping work to fuck him.
I enjoyed almost every bit of the story. Nothing felt predictible. Their angry encounters, the hate and lust moment was my fuel to continue the book. My only complain there is less sex and more sexual tension in this huge book. Also the second best thing in this book is Nash and Delilah moments, she always throws shit on him. I like her. Highly recommend this book if you crave an enemies-to-lovers romance.
(Previous review)
MC characters: Devious Lies consumes us in a heartbreaking tale of Emery Winthrop, a passionate girl who puts new words on T-shirts everyday. Nash Prescott, a man driven by goal for penance and revenge on Emery's family.
The play: A devious mother, a doting father, a scandal and lots of mysteries wrap the MC's. The writing had skill and was simple. Glad I came across this book.
Book ingredients: Includes age-gap, rich hero-poor heroine, enemies to lovers romance.
It's a lengthy book and very consuming.
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December 12, 2019
Devious Lies needs to be your next read!
This story is a flawless sensation that captivated me from the start. A delicious twist of slow burning fire and seductive plotting. I was riveted to each page by the stunning writing and nonstop feels. The romantic journey is a slow-burn, but you’d never know based off the endless stream of angsty and suspense. There’s never a dull moment—quite the opposite! I couldn’t put this book down if I tried!
Nash is a serious alpha-ass extreme. I love his cocky attitude and brash demeanor. Whenever Emery enters the picture, his hostility only intensifies. She loves to push all his buttons and I don’t blame her.
Everyone is going to fall SO hard for this couple and this entire magnificent novel!
This story is a flawless sensation that captivated me from the start. A delicious twist of slow burning fire and seductive plotting. I was riveted to each page by the stunning writing and nonstop feels. The romantic journey is a slow-burn, but you’d never know based off the endless stream of angsty and suspense. There’s never a dull moment—quite the opposite! I couldn’t put this book down if I tried!
Nash is a serious alpha-ass extreme. I love his cocky attitude and brash demeanor. Whenever Emery enters the picture, his hostility only intensifies. She loves to push all his buttons and I don’t blame her.
Everyone is going to fall SO hard for this couple and this entire magnificent novel!
September 24, 2022
Un libro de 702 páginas donde 500 son TRASH 🫠🫠
y las otras 200 nada memorable.
En este libro la sinopsis es más interesante que la historia misma.
No tengo idea porque lo terminé.
y las otras 200 nada memorable.
En este libro la sinopsis es más interesante que la historia misma.
No tengo idea porque lo terminé.
January 1, 2020
This book! I want to scream! With frustration and yet with satisfaction. What makes me frustrated and apprrciate this book is the writting style. It has so many dramatic, detail inner conversation. Plus with all of those new words from who knows where dictionary.
The main story is simple and yet new for me. A mistaken identity during one night stand. Then it leads into the game of cat and mouse. So many plot. So many lies.
I do like Emery. She is kick ass heroine. She hold no prisoner and push back as good as she gets.
Nash is mystery to me. With his brooding and obsession on his revenge. Finally he gave in into Emery. The audiobook is 15 hours long. What a ride.
4 stars
The main story is simple and yet new for me. A mistaken identity during one night stand. Then it leads into the game of cat and mouse. So many plot. So many lies.
I do like Emery. She is kick ass heroine. She hold no prisoner and push back as good as she gets.
Nash is mystery to me. With his brooding and obsession on his revenge. Finally he gave in into Emery. The audiobook is 15 hours long. What a ride.
4 stars
December 18, 2019
3.5 stars
December 29, 2019
***5 "Come back to me?" / "Lagom" / "Ya'aburnee..." stars***
"Don't succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame."
I'm impressed!!! I really am!!!
My friends already know how a big mafia books obsessed I am and the funny thing is that I've read the only book of Parker that is non mafia related!!! Funny, ugh???
Well, this book was huge!!! Literally huge, but in a weird way, it didn't bore me at all!!!!
I just loved and enjoyed every second of it, and i have this strange thought that Parker S. Huntington will be added in my most favorite authors!!!! And of course, I will read and all her mafia books!!!
But let me stick to this book, even though i don't know from where to start or what to say!!!
"Touching her once was a mistake.
Touching her again would be sinful."
"He looked like he felt- a nightmare disguised as a dream."
Nash and Emery had a strange connection from the beginning even though they didn't realize it!!!
The age gap between them was big... a decade, but still something was working very good between them... In love and hate matters!!!
These two knew each other for many years!!!
Emery was Nash's younger brother's best friend and his parents were working for her parents...
So, they were many encounters between them through the years.
And then one day, everything changed!!!
"He was always Reed Prescott's older brother to me. Unattainable. Forbidden. Something I'd never even considered."
Four years ago, Emery sneaked out in Reed's bedroom to profess her love to him and to do other things with him, but it turned out that Nash was in his place...
And then all hell broke loose!!!
"He'd tranformed from the older brother Reed had once idolized to this monster neither of us could recognize.
It hurt more than I'd thought it would.
I buried his jab beside my pride."
Now, after four years, the tables had turned...
Nash is big and wealthy and he never stopped seeking revenge from everyone in Emery's family...
Emery is not the princess that once everyone thought she were... She is poor and homeless and in serious need of money!!!
So, she is walking on the lion's den because she needs money and a job...
And Nash and Emery are meeting for once again after all these years in different circumstances...
A war has begun... A war of hate and love... Which one will win after all???
"I was a princess, and I had traded in my ballgowns for battlefields.
He had started the battle, but I would win the war."
"I wanted to fuck with her.
I wanted to fuck her.
I couldn't do one, so I settled for the other."
"Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.
Her hopes.
Her dreams.
Her future in the palm of my hands.
I was hard at the idea of revenge."
I love both Nash and Emery and i loved how fateful this relationship was...
Nash was strongheaded and he had done some shady things, but he was good at heart, even though he was keeping it to himself...
Emery was so proud and strongwilled...I loved her for what she were doing, even though i was feeling sorry for her situation many times!!!
These two were a match from hell, but they were fitting so good together...
"I was Sisyphus.
Crafty.
Deceitful.
A thief."
"He looked like a god, descending upon Earth.
An angel seconds before becoming a demon."
"Nash was so broken, it was almost beutiful how he had erected walls of thorns and poison ivy around himself.
A haunted castle armed with insults as cannons; two staggering, hate-filled eyes as guards; and a lonely king who never abandoned his throne for fear it would collapse.
And me? I was the fallen princess destined to never stap inside his fortress."
Yep, this story was a slow burn one and it was burning me all the damn time, but i loved it!!!
I loved Emery's weird fixation with strange and unique words...
I loved Nash's notes on lunch bags...
I loved how they were fighting, even though their body languages and actions were screaming that they were caring...
I loved Burga and her Ben... Fate for once again!!!
I loved how Nash was protecting her all the time, even though he was proclaiming that he wanted to destroy her...
I loved everything... Period.
"I wanted to inhale his smoke, coat my tongue with his ashes, and bury myself in his lies.
But smoke ruined lungs.
Ashes tasted like death.
And lies blinded dreamers.
I was a dreamer.
He was a nightmare."
"With Nash... It's a vicious love, the kind that beats me down and robs me of all my possessions until I feel bloodied, worn, and bruised, stolen of everything that makes me... me."
"Nash consumed me like the heart of a storm. I was trapped outside with no shelter, forced to endure the relentless battering with no control over when it would stop."
"What are you asking from me?"
"Break me... Then put me back together, mismatched, scarred and chaotic as this storm."
And now, I can't wait for the second book!!! I don't care for whom it will be!!! I just want it!!!
I want to read everything but Parker!!!
I told you... I am impressed!!!
I have never read more than 600 pages so pleasantly...
Oh, and to not forget to tell you that this book was a standalone... Go, read it!!!
"Ya'aburnee is Arabic for you bury me.
It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them..."
"Don't succumb to the fire. Be the bigger flame."
I'm impressed!!! I really am!!!
My friends already know how a big mafia books obsessed I am and the funny thing is that I've read the only book of Parker that is non mafia related!!! Funny, ugh???
Well, this book was huge!!! Literally huge, but in a weird way, it didn't bore me at all!!!!
I just loved and enjoyed every second of it, and i have this strange thought that Parker S. Huntington will be added in my most favorite authors!!!! And of course, I will read and all her mafia books!!!
But let me stick to this book, even though i don't know from where to start or what to say!!!
"Touching her once was a mistake.
Touching her again would be sinful."
"He looked like he felt- a nightmare disguised as a dream."
Nash and Emery had a strange connection from the beginning even though they didn't realize it!!!
The age gap between them was big... a decade, but still something was working very good between them... In love and hate matters!!!
These two knew each other for many years!!!
Emery was Nash's younger brother's best friend and his parents were working for her parents...
So, they were many encounters between them through the years.
And then one day, everything changed!!!
"He was always Reed Prescott's older brother to me. Unattainable. Forbidden. Something I'd never even considered."
Four years ago, Emery sneaked out in Reed's bedroom to profess her love to him and to do other things with him, but it turned out that Nash was in his place...
And then all hell broke loose!!!
"He'd tranformed from the older brother Reed had once idolized to this monster neither of us could recognize.
It hurt more than I'd thought it would.
I buried his jab beside my pride."
Now, after four years, the tables had turned...
Nash is big and wealthy and he never stopped seeking revenge from everyone in Emery's family...
Emery is not the princess that once everyone thought she were... She is poor and homeless and in serious need of money!!!
So, she is walking on the lion's den because she needs money and a job...
And Nash and Emery are meeting for once again after all these years in different circumstances...
A war has begun... A war of hate and love... Which one will win after all???
"I was a princess, and I had traded in my ballgowns for battlefields.
He had started the battle, but I would win the war."
"I wanted to fuck with her.
I wanted to fuck her.
I couldn't do one, so I settled for the other."
"Soon enough, everything she owned would be mine.
Her hopes.
Her dreams.
Her future in the palm of my hands.
I was hard at the idea of revenge."
I love both Nash and Emery and i loved how fateful this relationship was...
Nash was strongheaded and he had done some shady things, but he was good at heart, even though he was keeping it to himself...
Emery was so proud and strongwilled...I loved her for what she were doing, even though i was feeling sorry for her situation many times!!!
These two were a match from hell, but they were fitting so good together...
"I was Sisyphus.
Crafty.
Deceitful.
A thief."
"He looked like a god, descending upon Earth.
An angel seconds before becoming a demon."
"Nash was so broken, it was almost beutiful how he had erected walls of thorns and poison ivy around himself.
A haunted castle armed with insults as cannons; two staggering, hate-filled eyes as guards; and a lonely king who never abandoned his throne for fear it would collapse.
And me? I was the fallen princess destined to never stap inside his fortress."
Yep, this story was a slow burn one and it was burning me all the damn time, but i loved it!!!
I loved Emery's weird fixation with strange and unique words...
I loved Nash's notes on lunch bags...
I loved how they were fighting, even though their body languages and actions were screaming that they were caring...
I loved Burga and her Ben... Fate for once again!!!
I loved how Nash was protecting her all the time, even though he was proclaiming that he wanted to destroy her...
I loved everything... Period.
"I wanted to inhale his smoke, coat my tongue with his ashes, and bury myself in his lies.
But smoke ruined lungs.
Ashes tasted like death.
And lies blinded dreamers.
I was a dreamer.
He was a nightmare."
"With Nash... It's a vicious love, the kind that beats me down and robs me of all my possessions until I feel bloodied, worn, and bruised, stolen of everything that makes me... me."
"Nash consumed me like the heart of a storm. I was trapped outside with no shelter, forced to endure the relentless battering with no control over when it would stop."
"What are you asking from me?"
"Break me... Then put me back together, mismatched, scarred and chaotic as this storm."
And now, I can't wait for the second book!!! I don't care for whom it will be!!! I just want it!!!
I want to read everything but Parker!!!
I told you... I am impressed!!!
I have never read more than 600 pages so pleasantly...
Oh, and to not forget to tell you that this book was a standalone... Go, read it!!!
"Ya'aburnee is Arabic for you bury me.
It is the hope that you will die before your one true love because you cannot bear to live without them..."
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