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| Original Title: | Tell Me Lies |
| ISBN: | 0312932820 (ISBN13: 9780312932824) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Jennifer Crusie
Paperback | Pages: 384 pages Rating: 3.71 | 12209 Users | 505 Reviews
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| Title | : | Tell Me Lies |
| Author | : | Jennifer Crusie |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 384 pages |
| Published | : | July 11th 2004 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published January 1st 1998) |
| Categories | : | Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary Romance. Fiction. Contemporary. Humor |
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I cannot enjoy a story where the major plot events are based on heroine stupidity.Tell Me Lies had five major stupidities. Here are two of them.
Maddie knows a security guard watches couples having sex at a place called The Point. So why does she insist that CL take her there to have sex? When the guard sees them, she is horrified. She is worried that he will gossip and she may have trouble getting custody of her daughter in the divorce. Apparently I am supposed to believe she had been drinking and forgot about the security guard.
Maddie is a suspect in the murder of her husband. Someone planted the murder weapon (gun) in her car. When she sees it, she picks it up which puts her fingerprints on it.
Stupidity is the main reason I did not give it more stars. But a second reason was “the heroine lying to her daughter and others” was not interesting. Her husband is having an affair and a divorce is coming. But Maddie tells her daughter that everything is fine. Her habit is telling lies to her daughter. Toward the end the daughter is upset at all the lies, so Maddie promises to be truthful. But after this sweet connection, she tells more lies to her daughter. For example someone was hired to hit Maddie’s car, but Maddie tells her daughter it was an accident, not intentional. The daughter asks if Maddie is going to marry CL. Maddie says no. The reader knows they will marry.
Another lie was everyone “knew” her husband hit her, but she continued to say she ran into a wall. On balance, the lies were not interesting or entertaining - to me.
Another reader liked this book and commented to me “her insecurity, stupidity, impulsiveness, closeness to her mother and grandmother, obliviousness to her husband, et al make her a three-dimensional person.” So some will like this.
I’ve read this twice, in 2007 and 2012.
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Story length: 347 pages. Swearing language: moderate to strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: none to mild. Number of sex scenes: three or four. Setting: current day Ohio. Copyright. 1998. Genre: romantic mystery.
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Ratings: 3.71 From 12209 Users | 505 ReviewsAppraise Appertaining To Books Tell Me Lies
I cannot enjoy a story where the major plot events are based on heroine stupidity. Tell Me Lies had five major stupidities. Here are two of them.Maddie knows a security guard watches couples having sex at a place called The Point. So why does she insist that CL take her there to have sex? When the guard sees them, she is horrified. She is worried that he will gossip and she may have trouble getting custody of her daughter in the divorce. Apparently I am supposed to believe she had been drinkingI always know that a book by Jennifer Crusie will not let me down. There is so much going on in this book that you have no idea which way is up. The reader literally has all the clues to solve the mystery but it really isn't until the MC starts to make connections that you are like "it was in front of my face the whole time". I enjoyed the story line and the little mystery (even though it it technically chic-lit). Overall a good read.
3.5 stars
Not my favorite by Crusie, mostly because I have a hard time with adultery by a H/h (even if they were already being cheated on). And the general complacency of Maddie who hadn't been happy in her marriage for a while but was waiting for Brent to do something bad enough she could leave him for it. Mind you, I don't live in a tiny town, and trying to be perfect (the town's good girl) sounds exhausting.I loved Em as well as Henry and Anna. And C.L. and Maddie were good together. And Maddie's
If there is one thing Maddie Faraday knows about small town living, it's this: people talk. Having lived in Frog Point, Ohio her entire life, Maddie figured there was hardly a secret in town that she didn't know. Boy, was she wrong. It seems like there a still quite a few secrets out there and most of them concern her husband, Brent.It's a shock, of course, when Maddie finds the black lace crotchless panties shoved under the front seat of Brent's Cadillac. A shock but sadly, not surprising.
I cannot enjoy a story where the major plot events are based on heroine stupidity. Tell Me Lies had five major stupidities. Here are two of them.Maddie knows a security guard watches couples having sex at a place called The Point. So why does she insist that CL take her there to have sex? When the guard sees them, she is horrified. She is worried that he will gossip and she may have trouble getting custody of her daughter in the divorce. Apparently I am supposed to believe she had been drinking
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