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Believe Me, I'm Lying by Jordan Lynde

thepaperreels's review

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4.0

I so so so love this story. Though i was so dissapointed about it's ending, I feel like there should be a Sequel.

orlofthebooks's review

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5.0

80%
I read this book when it was still on Wattpad and loved it. Still loved it now. It gave me all the feels. I liked how it changed from being the uncle to being a separate person because it made more sense.

shereadsbookssometimes's review

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4.0

So many character ships in this book.. It difficult to find a favourite character. Amazing!!!!!

esumi's review

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1.0

Cute idea, poorly executed.

I randomly stumbled upon this story on Wattpad, searching for something light to read while waiting for my order of new books to arrive. Well, it certainly is light, for its story -and- the amount of plot holes. (sorry)

Even though the inconsistencies annoyed me, the concept itself was sweet and fun and would have gotten 2.5 or maybe 3 stars. The only real problem I had with the story is Harley’s pride. She doesn’t seem to get that doing everything alone in a situation like hers will only make things more difficult. Accepting (much needed) help is not something bad.

The true horror of this book lies within the amount of typo’s and unnecessary errors. There are hundreds of them; one in almost every sentence. If you don’t like correcting other people’s work, I highly recommend you to not even bother. On the other hand, if you don’t care about mistakes like that, go ahead and read it if you’re interested!

Also, it’s Mario Kart, not Cart. Please.

jesszc's review

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2.0

Harley is a seventeen year old who left school when her parents dies in a car crash. She is fired from her cupcake store job and now she is jobless. Along comes her uncle, giving her a job which she has to pretend to be a twenty one year old teacher at his school. And not just any old school. A delinquent school.

Now Harley is thrust into a world full of love triangles, life changing secrets and, of course, lies.

This book is quite a cliche as it has a girl falling in love with a bad boy. It could be better if the author could fix it up a bit. There's a lot of plot holes and I couldn't really see any plot. Just a girl falling in love with a boy.

The good thing about this book is that there's a lot of morals in the book and lots of life lessons learned. Harley is a bit boring as her personality is too strong and not really that funny.

I would recommend this book to twelve year olds up. If you like books about love at first sight and cliche bad boys, then this is the book for you.

Hope you guys enjoy this book!

emskiewings's review

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4.0

I don't really know what to make of this book at first because it seemed like just a series of one shots stitched together, but surely enough, a sort of plot came out of it and like everything else Jordan Lynde has written, I loved the story!

ecearslan's review

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1.0

This is the story of one girl and twenty boys who come to love her even though they are troubled kids who were sent to private schools just for the people like them. Even though all she does is to tell them "Don't call me stupid" or "I am your teacher" I mean who loves that kind of a dull and boring person?

Honestly Harley is by far the most boring character I've read about whole year. And I'm sure she is in top ten of all time. She doesn't have hobbies, she isn't funny at all, she likes to stick her nose into other people's business and she hasn't got a authoritative bone in her body. But the worst of all it is so fucking stupid that she doesn't let anyone help her. You know what girl, if you want to take care of your brother well, you should let some adults guide you. Because you are seventeen and I am seventeen and I know it's impossible for me to look after my brother for a long time.

And guess what??? All her brother does is playing video games. If she were to accept help from other people, like her uncle, her brother would definitely be having a better childhood with better conditions. Don't even make me start with the fact that you can't have the custody of your brother if you are not eighteen.

AND SHE DOESNT LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE SWEAR. Well little girl, no one gives a shit about your fucking sensitivities.

None of these boys had any characters. They always did something in clash with their other behaviors. And of course none of these boys have done anything horrible, just beating up the father because he cheats, or stealing school desks. I mean come on, the thing this story was based on, I mean the "gangs" of school was formed because one of the leaders decided one day he didn't want to be friends with the other leader anymore. Hmm, why not? Who need a plot, who need rational explanations?

Plot what plot? I am not even exaggerating, this story has 0 (zero) action. It doesn't even have terrible young adult romance. There isn't any chemistry. Zero zero zero zero zero. Seriously how could anyone like someone who threatens you to reveal something vital for you? (Let's just forget for a moment that what she was doing was unforgivable in my eyes anyway.) Besides, she started talking about romances at %75 and it didn't even make sense. She tried to avoid love triangles and while I would like it of she actually managed it, she failed. Fucking failure. I don't even know what this book was about. If author thinks it is about a girl who is coping with their parents' loss and trying to stay strong for the sake of her brother, she is wrong. Well, at least she knows this story hasn't got a plot, she warns the reader but I have this stupid thing called hope that it was going to pick up.

This is my problem with this author. Her stories are never insulting or she is not insensitive about serious matters but man, why they are always make me rage at the end? I always think it is going to be good and I am always disappointed even when I can't pinpoint what I didn't like. It is just her writing is fine but her stories are always lame after a time that you have to skip. Her writing goes downhill at the end drastically, all the fucking time.

And she has to give up on her good girl characters. Seriously. I bet she is making these characters a lot like herself, awfully polite and proper. Boring.

It is a one star because I am in a bad mood. If I was feeling generous it would be a two star but honestly go read something else which won't make you roll your eyes until they fall off.

aynixx's review

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3.0

It was very predictable and normally, I hate that. But this book was amazing! When I started reading this book I thought it would be about a stereotype teacher-student realationship, but Jordan Lynde totally proved me wrong. If all of her books are as this one, then I wish to read more books written by Jordan Lynde in the near future.

Oh, and I was really happy that Harley hooked up with Oliver instead of Arden. I didn't really liked that guy...

bucknaas's review

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5.0

It was funny.. I enjoyed it
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