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Twisted Lies by Ana Huang

135 reviews

noabeth's review

dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

3.5 stars instead of 4 cause of some graphic scenes towards the end of the book that felt slightly out of place. over all still loved the book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Murder, Torture, and Stalking

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

denise56's review

dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Too dark for my preference. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture

snowiceblackfruit77's review against another edition

emotional funny sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

At the beginning I had a little trouble, getting into the book. But once I did I devoured every page. I usually don’t like romance books. But Ana Huang, has the ability to make a romance book interesting and not basic. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Alcohol, Blood, Stalking, Gore, Misogyny, Body horror, Death, Grief, Vomit, Abandonment, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Suicide, Sexual content, Murder, Sexism, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Cursing, and Injury/Injury detail

jayandthehive's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Stalking, and Sexual content

Moderate: Dementia, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Torture, Gore, Violence, Pregnancy, Injury/Injury detail, and Gun violence

katierosecrane's review

lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Firrst off I am biased because I don't love Ana Huang's writing, but they always seem to hook me just like Twisted Lies. This book is chessy and unrealistic. There were many parts of the plot that didn't add up to me and those unrealistoc parts dampned the book for me. 

Out of the whole series I would say this book is 3rd and the 1st book is last. To be fair even in the book Ana Huang states that it is cheesy so I don't really fault her. I just didn't particularly get entranced by this book because of that, but her writing intruged me enough to rread thhe whole series so. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Stalking, Torture, Pregnancy, Vomit, Cursing, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Alcohol, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Death of parent, Blood, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

jlynandstories's review

dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This book is probably the best written in the series but at this point I was so over the morally grey billionaire trope. For some reason her morally grey billionaires are more interesting when they are the background characters instead of the male lead. This goes for Christian, Alex and Dante. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture and Murder

gracewingham's review against another edition

dark funny slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

kierazane's review

emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Stalking, Violence, and Gun violence

catnip159's review

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

WOW! Wowowow! Christian Harper is all I wanted out of Alex Volkov and didn't get! Christian is truly my second favorite man from the twisted series and this book did not disappoint. I went into this with high expectations and these expectations were met and more! I loved Stella as a character and her internal struggles were something that I resonated with, and the guessing game with the stalker and the security mole was a fun game I played through out the book (which, I guessed the mole right heck yeah).

As for plot, I loved the stalker plot and I loved the small snip bits we get of Christian's work (aka, the office scene), I even liked Christian's character and I enjoyed the fact that all four Twisted men were together in scenes, their dynamic was great and I even ended up warming up to Alex which is shocking considering I didn't like him too much in his original book. As for Stella, I really reallly liked her as the main girl, her actions made sense and I really liked her personality. Stella was honestly a wild card for me when going in because she wasn't really relevant in the other three books so I couldn't get an opinion and I'm honestly happy about that. This book was genuinely a joy and I'm so excited to start the "King of" series since the main character of the first one seems intriguing since he was also in this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Death, Sexual content, Kidnapping, Stalking, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Torture

iamhookedoncrochet's review

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This… was THE best book out of this series-hands down. 

The characters, the scenes, the suspense… chefs kiss 

Ana has quite truly outdone herself on this one and I will most definitely be reading more of Ana Huang after completing this series. 

This book contains murder, torture, stalking, graphic bondage, etc. if any of these are in your trigger cards, I would suggest you leave this book out of your TBR. 

This book wrapped up everything I needed wrapped up for this series and I walk away feeling satisfied by my reads. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Blood, Torture, Stalking, Kidnapping, and Gore

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Vomit and Pregnancy