Tell Me a Lie

Wow. 😮‍💨 I loved this book so damn much. I could tell this book was something special even when I was in the prologue. Things I loved: ✅ MC1 (Sage): so vulnerable, adorable, neeeeedy. Gods, I loved the neediness. ✅ MC2 (Lucas): obsessed with Sage. Wants to give Sage everything. Basically I loved Lucas for loving Sage so well, even if there were some times I wanted to whack Lucas on the back of the head (with love), lol. We’ve all wanted to smack a MC before, eh? ✅ The epilogue. No spoilers here, I’m just saying I really liked it. ✅ The spice. My gods, it was delicious. The amount of spice was perfect for me and the quality of the spice was 😗🤌🏻 … the constant fingers (you know where), the “this hole always needs to be filled” aspect of it… there were some other things that I’m not normally into but in this book I WAS INTO IT! ✅ The writing. Listen, the writing… was so good. And I totally get that writing style is subjective. So feel free to ignore me on this, but like… nothing made me cringe. The dialogue felt natural. The voices between the MCs were distinctive. I am so impressed with this book. And yeah, it’s impressive as a debut book, FOR SURE. But if it had been the author’s 1000th book I’d still be impressed. This was just a great read, and Sage is going to live rent-free in my mind for the foreseeable future. Lucas can come too lol.

I want to start this review by saying that Sage is the sweetest little baby I have ever read about, and I want to wrap him in bubblewrap and a big fluffy blanket and never let him out of my sight. To sum that up, I love him so so so much. My sweet little angel. This was such a good book. I read it on kindle unlimited, but I had to go and buy my own copy because I enjoyed it so much. One of my favorites this year, for sure. My bestie told me to read it based just on how good the prologue was, and she wasn’t wrong. This was muy bien. Here’s the juice. The prologue starts us off with a sex scene, and I was like oh hello this author knows just how to get me. A very very very good sex scene, too. Sage met Lucas at a gay club and told him that he can do whatever he wants as long as he tells Sage a lie. He needs Lucas to tell him that he loves him. He just needs to hear it for once. So that’s what we get. A steamy sex scene that ends with a fake love confession. And then when Lucas gets up to go to the bathroom, Sage leaves. Fast forward 4 months later. Sage’s brother tells him he can have this old car as long as he promises to get a part time job. Sage takes the car to the mechanic, and is talking to the lady up front about their help wanted sign for a new receptionist. Imagine Sage’s surprise when he finds out Lucas owns the mechanic shop. And imagine Lucas’s surprise when he finds out that the man he hasn’t stopped thinking about for the last 4 months isn’t over 21, but is…