A review by kitsuneru
Twisted Lies by Ana Huang

emotional funny lighthearted sad

2.0

stella and christian. mmm it was def a book. it was interesting and entertaining. def better than the first one but not as good as the third. i would say it’s a little better than the second one. i think the scenes in this book had much smoother transitions. it was interesting in the beginning and then a little over the half way mark, it just got repetitive and boring.

i relate to stella’s overthinking tendencies. but some of the things stella says are like ?? cringey?? and

she was so in denial of her feelings towards christian it got kind of annoying near the end but finally they kissed and stuff. though ngl their kiss was so random. like it felt so random and they didn’t even really react or acknowledge it and kind of went with it and that’s what threw me off. i didn’t even know if they actually kissed or if it was another brush of lips. their first brush of lips got more reaction than their actual kiss bc stella mentioned it so nonchalantly in the next chapter and i was like what.

also the stalker was so anticlimactic like who tf was julian. did we ever even meet him? i though it was gonna be that one worker who had the graveyard shift in the beginning or her manager. literally so so disappointing. i knew kage was gonna betray him tho.

christian harper, i have some opinions about him, for someone obsessed with stella and someone who keeps saying he’s going to kill people,

he barely kills anyone. he’s all bark. we’re always told that he’s dangerous and all these apparent rumors about him, even stella’s dad kept saying things about it but what tf were the rumors? that he kills people?? like bruh we barely even saw that happen. the most he did was threaten someone. but i did love the letter he wrote that was so cute.

there was so much plot in this book which i usually don’t mind but it just kept getting added and some of them turned to plot holes and i was like? also the fake dating was only like 10 short chapters. i was expecting more. another thing, the plot and structure of this was very predictable, ana always breaks her characters up no matter if they messed up or not and then they get back together and i’m just tired of it. show some variety. also the smut scenes are all the same in all her books essentially, i got tired of it by this book and i skipped over all the smut scenes except the first two.

but it was tolerable for the most part, it got boring after they got together and there was so much unnecessary detail. like this book could’ve been 200 pages shorter. maybe removing the amount of times stella described christian’s eyes as whiskey and the book would already be 50 pages shorter.

the other couple are cute in this book and i love their interactions and the little snippets of them and i think it was nice. i saw someone say that all men in ana huangs are the same and honestly that’s true except for josh. and someone else said that most of ana huangs books feel like books they’ve read before and it’s true. like it’s not bad but nothing life changing.