Admission: I’m only 10 pages into Carola Lovering‘s ☛TELL ME LIES [pub: Atria Books] and have laughed out loud twice on the C train riding only three stops to one of my favorite bars in Brooklyn— shout out to Leah and Brett at The Corners.
In fact, I’ve already told my twenty-eight-year-old daughter that she’s going to enjoy this beach read if for no other reason that she and the female protagonist Lucy share a love for SoulCycle and a guy who watches YouTube videos as she’s rushing out the door. I’m hooked and will update this post when I’m done. I hear it gets toxic and twisted. I hear it’s sexy. I know this story is told from two perspectives and I haven’t read Stephen’s yet. Can’t wait. Happy reading!
Per Simon & Schuster:
Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college, and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother, whom she’s never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer—new friends, wild parties, stimulating classes. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating.
Confident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she’s quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. Meanwhile, Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past that, if exposed, could ruin him, and his single-minded drive for success extends to winning, and keeping, Lucy’s heart.
Lucy knows there’s something about Stephen that isn’t to be trusted. Stephen knows Lucy can’t tear herself away. And their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined.
Alternating between Lucy’s and Stephen’s voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. With the psychological insight and biting wit of Luckiest Girl Alive, and the yearning ambitions and desires of Sweetbitter, this keenly intelligent and staggeringly resonant novel chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood, and the difficulty of letting go, even when you know you should.
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