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Twisted Lies by Ana Huang

188 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

hanschub's review against another edition

dark emotional 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? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Stalking, Murder, Blood, and Sexual content

Moderate: Violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, and Death of parent

Minor: Pregnancy, Suicide, and Vomit

olivia_noelle's review

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Grief, Violence, Gun violence, Kidnapping, Stalking, Sexual content, and Suicide

auntieash_'s review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Injury/Injury detail, and Stalking

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence, Murder, and Kidnapping

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

absolutely_court's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Murder, Stalking, and Sexual content

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

things100's review

funny mysterious reflective 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

4.5

I loved Christian and Stella’s story such a good finale to the twisted series 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Stalking, and Murder

Moderate: Kidnapping, Death of parent, and Violence

rlward66's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious fast-paced

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

4.0

“Twisted Lies” the fourth book in Anna Huang’s Twisted series features Stella Alanso the 4th woman in a group of friends who met when they became roommates in college.   Stella is a Social Media blogger and fashion girly who has spent many years cultivating her social media presence. After college, she begins work for a Washington DC fashion magazine and has the worst boss ever.  When Stella is invited to a dinner/interview with a fashion brand that loves and misses calls from her boss she is fired from that job.  In the meantime, a stalker from her past has reemerged and the only person she knows who might be able to help her is Christian Harper the owner of the building that she lives in and Harper Security and the person who she decides to fake date to get more followers and hopeful the new brand ambassador deal.  Do Stella and Christian move beyond their contracted fake relationship? Can their relationship survive when lies come to the surface?  I enjoyed this story and its twists and turns. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Kidnapping, Blood, and Stalking