Tell Me Pretty Lies by Charleigh Rose
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Three things my mother acquired when she became engaged:
1. A brand new Tiffany’s ring;
2. A lavish home on Heartbreak Hill;
3. Three privileged stepsons.The last thing I expected was to fall for one of them, least of all Thayer Ames. Beautiful, brooding, and untouchable.
I knew it was a bad idea. He warned me himself. But he was a thunderstorm, and I never could resist the rain. It was perfect…until it wasn’t.
One night was all it took for our world to crumble, leaving only secrets and lies between us. Now, I have to face him again, but the boy I used to know has become the man who loves to hate me.
Tell Me Pretty Lies
Unlikeable anti-hero!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 🙂🥰☺️😎
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration
The heroine: Shayne – her mother got engaged to August Ames, an important man in her town. They immediately moved into their mansion with the family. So, her family went from just her, her mom and her brother grey, to a large family with three stepbrothers. They lived there for two years, and Shayne became best friends with the brother Holden, and she fell for Thayer. Though their romance was a secret and never went far. Until the day their brother Danny died after falling or jumping from a cliff into the water below. Her mother and Mr. Ames broke up after that and they moved away.
The Hero: Thayer – he was the bad boy, the black sheep of his family. He fell for Shayne when she lived with them, but she was his dirty little secret. He was nearly destroyed when his brother Danny died and pushed her away even before she moved away.
The Story: A year after the death of Danny, Shayne and her mother move back to town after her grandmother dies and leaves them her house. Her brother Grey is away at college and rarely answers her phone calls. Shayne is wary of returning and finds that the three Ames brothers hate her and since they are at the top of the popularity ladder at school, much of the rest of the school is against her as well. Thayer has since graduated and is attending a nearby college, but Holden and his cousin Christian are bad enough to make her days nearly unbearable. Thayer is around enough to give her plenty of grief as well.
This was an odd bully romance since it didn’t make much sense at first. Holden was best friends with Shayne before they moved, and Thayer had feelings for her. Yet now they suddenly hate her, and they won’t leave her alone, they take every chance they can to bully her. Finally, after about eleven chapters, we find the reason for their animosity. They think that her brother Grey killed their brother Danny and that she might know something about it.
I still didn’t really like this premise since they could have given her the benefit of the doubt and asked her what she knew as friends instead of all the animosity. Later on in the book we find out even more about Thayer’s conflicted feelings about Shayne which make me like him even less. Though I could see he was in pain from his brother’s death, he seemed very juvenile in his feelings about Shayne.
This audiobook was told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Tor Thom and Stephanie Rose. I really like Tor Thom’s voice. It is very deep, and he is great at sounding natural. Though I absolutely hated Stephanie Rose. Her tone isn’t bad, but you can tell she is reading, and she has unnatural pauses, and she emphasizes words in a weird way. She sounds like a prissy rich girl who is someone you would immediately hate. It was extremely annoying.
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