Pieces of Lies edition by Angela Richardson Literature Fiction eBooks
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Passionately driven artist, Norah Ross, has been banished from New York to Morewell for her final semester of graphic design at McLaren University. Her move allows her to reconnect with Josh, her best friend, who is more then thrilled at Norah's appearance back into his life.
At the same time that Norah steps back into Josh's heart, she learns that he is in the process of being accepted into McLaren's uber exclusive secret society, the 'Lappell'. Josh takes Norah to the Lappell's glamorous parties in the hope of taking their friendship to the next level, but when Norah meets the handsome and elusive Clint Weston, a leader in the Lappell, he sweeps her off her feet in more ways then one.
Norah quickly becomes caught up in an emotional tug-of-war between the two guys while also trying to deal with her own secrets that follow her every day. When Norah's past begins to intertwine with her present, what unfolds is a series of dramatic events filled with romance, mystery and dark motivations. She quickly realizes the path to real love can be paved in all kinds of lies.
*This is a new adult novel with some mature sexual content.
Pieces of Lies edition by Angela Richardson Literature Fiction eBooks
This wasn't necessarily a bad book. I did finish it, so there's that. Nobody sang. Most of the author's song selections were pretty decent. I didn't feel like I was being manipulated to cry at every twist. And maybe with a bit of editing and a major overhaul of the main characters, it wouldn't be half as bad.That being said, there's a scene near the end of this book where Tess, Norah's tequila enabler, gave a very succinct summary of what has happened thus far in the story.
That was 71% in. Which took me two days to get to.
I kinda wish I started this one at 71% and miss out on:
✵ Norah trying to seduce her best friend Josh in a party
✵ Norah falling in lust with Clint in the very same party
✵ Norah detailing the intricacies of her hair and make-up as she goes from this party to the next
✵ Norah name-dropping the designers of her clothes and shoes as well as those around her
✵ Norah getting fought over by Josh, Samuel and Clint by coming to blows against each other in different permutations (ie. Josh vs Clint, Clint vs Samuel)
✵ Norah, the most beautiful girl in the universe. An angel. A diamond. A badass because she goes to shooting ranges for fun. A sexy artist because she likes to paint her art with her naked body (imagine her covered in paint squirming this way and that over the canvass-covered floor). She's rich. She never gets fat even if she eats half the pizza in the world. She's perfect.
"I stared at my reflection in the huge Victorian bath mirror. With the softness of the dress and my long black hair slightly wet and flowing, I looked like I belonged in an English rose garden."
She may poop rainbows and shed pixie dust but I really had a hard time liking Norah from the first scene. I can see the effort to make her brazen and edgy but since everything was written from her POV she just came across self-centered and shallow. And since the story pretty much revolved around her, she definitely weighed Josh's, Clint's and Samuel's characters down, limiting their own depth as only relative to hers. As a narrator, she has a habit of spoon-feeding the reader what the other person is feeling at a specific scene which was really annoying.
It's strange because I think this book suffered from too many things happening and yet, since everything else was tied to Norah it still fell flat and one-note. Which makes for a very difficult read when you can't root for the heroine because even her supposed burdens were enviable and the leading men were more cardboard than swoon material.
Oh and this:
"Dinner was four courses, the first being a green salad with duck confit, caramelized apples and macadamia nuts with some kind of ginger vinaigrette. The second course was sand crab in a tiny puff pastry shell and the main was roasted rabbit with fig sauce. By dessert, I was completely stuffed and could only admire the chocolate mousse in the French vanilla cup."
Endless ramblings about the minutest details. Instead of devoting pages of the specifics of what Tess is wearing in Norah's party (one of five in this book I think, because these people are rich and that's ALL that rich people do, really) or the boring sex between Norah and Clint, I wish the details went to the actual foundations of Norah and Josh's friendship or Clint's personal and family issues (he seem to only have existed here to have sex with Norah) or Norah and Samuel's past beyond Singaporean Orchids. These are the things, I as a reader would be interested in. Not the dessert in party number 4, FFS.
It felt all fluff and circumstance, to be honest. The thin subplot of The Lappell even came off laughable because of the ambiguity of their "evil misdeeds". What exactly do they do? Did they manufacture a virus that can wipeout mankind? Are they the ones who post the snarkiest comments in imgur? Are they friendly with North Korea? What? There were a lot of editing issues as well, with flashbacks coming and going without preamble, typos and strange turns of phrases:
"My face pushed up against the glass window of the limo to peer out."
Whut?
This ended on a mysterious note, with someone apparently having some nefarious, hidden agenda leaving the conflict between Josh, Samuel and Clint open for the next book... yet I couldn't bring myself to give a flying duck.
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Pieces of Lies edition by Angela Richardson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Have mercy!!!!!!
You wanna talk about a love triangle, she[...] Most of the time I can pick the one man I just love, the one I want the girl to be with but in this book, I am soooo confused. I think I know then I'm thrown off but something just isn't right.
Not two men but hello three men that have you all crazy. I like them all for different reasons, I want her to chose them based on different reasons. I swear it is going to kill me.
I love all the characters In the story they all brought different things to it. The roller coaster just about doneme in I was so conflicted and confused. I was up and down. I'm not sure I've ever experienced that kind of triangle and its not normal everyday people, nope they all have secrets or are parts of secret society's. makes for some interesting times. A little suspense, and enough angst to get you hooked.
I had no idea there was another book, I should of payed more attention, oooohhh I want to kick myself!
Cliffhangers kill me!!!!
To the author. Thumbs up and you definitely are killing me with suspense.
The opening page of the book really helped set the mood and theme of the story. Angela Richardson wrote "I lie in bed at night, surrounded by darkness that haunts me. It crawls underneath the covers and gets in my head.....So I find solace in music that moves me; that fills me with words that speak to my soul, and gives me hope that there are others as troubled in this world, who might know my kind of pain...I listen to A Beautiful Lie by 30 Seconds to Mars and I think about how I am the person in that song, walking the world in a beautiful lie." That first page really spoke to me and helped me see that this book and this character that Ms. Richardson wrote about would be something that would really stay with me. I loved this story and I am so looking forward to book 2. Norah is a complex character, she has a past that haunts her and sometimes it seems to overshadow her. There are so many layers to her and she is so real. Red Smith has a quote that states that "Writing is easy. You just sit at the typewriter and open a vein." Ms. Richardson has done this in this book, she has shown us a part of her soul. Nora has transferred to McLaren University at the end of her degree and she has changed her name. She doesn't want to be known there for who her father is, she wants some freedom. Her father kept her under his thumb as best he could while she was in NYC so she loves being away. Her best friend since she was 13 years old is at the school and he has been invited into a secret society. Josh sets Norah up at a party and didn't tell her what kind of party it actually was. He wanted their relationship to be more but he stupidly took her to that party and ruined his chance. Norah loves Josh but trust and honesty are integral to her and he crossed a line. At that party she is introduced to Clint, very old money and the epitome of a player. Clint shows Norah that he is not just a stereotype, that there is more to him than what he shows to the world. Terrible things have happened to Norah in her past and she's very careful but she's got this amazing draw toward Clint. Her ex-fiance comes back into the picture wanting her back. So Norah has Josh, Clint and Samuel all trying to be the one she ends up with. Both Samuel and Clint do some underhanded things to be with her. I think the only true character in this story is Josh. I mean don't get me wrong, what he did to Norah was pretty dasterdly but he is the only one that has always been there for her and does everything he can for her. He steps to the side so she can be happy with someone else, because he truly loves her. Josh has cared about Norah since they were 13 years old and has always been there. I'm rooting for Josh, that's who I hope she ends up with. Please don't let me down Ms. Richardson.
This wasn't necessarily a bad book. I did finish it, so there's that. Nobody sang. Most of the author's song selections were pretty decent. I didn't feel like I was being manipulated to cry at every twist. And maybe with a bit of editing and a major overhaul of the main characters, it wouldn't be half as bad.
That being said, there's a scene near the end of this book where Tess, Norah's tequila enabler, gave a very succinct summary of what has happened thus far in the story.
That was 71% in. Which took me two days to get to.
I kinda wish I started this one at 71% and miss out on
✵ Norah trying to seduce her best friend Josh in a party
✵ Norah falling in lust with Clint in the very same party
✵ Norah detailing the intricacies of her hair and make-up as she goes from this party to the next
✵ Norah name-dropping the designers of her clothes and shoes as well as those around her
✵ Norah getting fought over by Josh, Samuel and Clint by coming to blows against each other in different permutations (ie. Josh vs Clint, Clint vs Samuel)
✵ Norah, the most beautiful girl in the universe. An angel. A diamond. A badass because she goes to shooting ranges for fun. A sexy artist because she likes to paint her art with her naked body (imagine her covered in paint squirming this way and that over the canvass-covered floor). She's rich. She never gets fat even if she eats half the pizza in the world. She's perfect.
"I stared at my reflection in the huge Victorian bath mirror. With the softness of the dress and my long black hair slightly wet and flowing, I looked like I belonged in an English rose garden."
She may poop rainbows and shed pixie dust but I really had a hard time liking Norah from the first scene. I can see the effort to make her brazen and edgy but since everything was written from her POV she just came across self-centered and shallow. And since the story pretty much revolved around her, she definitely weighed Josh's, Clint's and Samuel's characters down, limiting their own depth as only relative to hers. As a narrator, she has a habit of spoon-feeding the reader what the other person is feeling at a specific scene which was really annoying.
It's strange because I think this book suffered from too many things happening and yet, since everything else was tied to Norah it still fell flat and one-note. Which makes for a very difficult read when you can't root for the heroine because even her supposed burdens were enviable and the leading men were more cardboard than swoon material.
Oh and this
"Dinner was four courses, the first being a green salad with duck confit, caramelized apples and macadamia nuts with some kind of ginger vinaigrette. The second course was sand crab in a tiny puff pastry shell and the main was roasted rabbit with fig sauce. By dessert, I was completely stuffed and could only admire the chocolate mousse in the French vanilla cup."
Endless ramblings about the minutest details. Instead of devoting pages of the specifics of what Tess is wearing in Norah's party (one of five in this book I think, because these people are rich and that's ALL that rich people do, really) or the boring sex between Norah and Clint, I wish the details went to the actual foundations of Norah and Josh's friendship or Clint's personal and family issues (he seem to only have existed here to have sex with Norah) or Norah and Samuel's past beyond Singaporean Orchids. These are the things, I as a reader would be interested in. Not the dessert in party number 4, FFS.
It felt all fluff and circumstance, to be honest. The thin subplot of The Lappell even came off laughable because of the ambiguity of their "evil misdeeds". What exactly do they do? Did they manufacture a virus that can wipeout mankind? Are they the ones who post the snarkiest comments in imgur? Are they friendly with North Korea? What? There were a lot of editing issues as well, with flashbacks coming and going without preamble, typos and strange turns of phrases
"My face pushed up against the glass window of the limo to peer out."
Whut?
This ended on a mysterious note, with someone apparently having some nefarious, hidden agenda leaving the conflict between Josh, Samuel and Clint open for the next book... yet I couldn't bring myself to give a flying duck.
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