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Chloe Reads

4,5 devious stars

Commenté en France le 16 décembre 2019

4,5 devious stars

I’ve discovered this author over this past year, and I have to admit, I totally fell in love with her writing. I was a bit worried because of the length of the book, but rest assured, I wasn’t bored for one minute. I actually wanted more and more of Emery and Nash’s story. This book truly keeps you gripped from beginning to end. You literally won’t want to let go of this beautifully, perfectly imperfect characters.

It's so rare for me to love the hero and heroine equally, but this was definitely the case with Emery and Nash. Yes, I was a bit frustrating at times but I loved them so much both as individuals and as a couple. Emery is quirky, completely selfless and independent. What a sweetheart she is. Nash on the other hand is quite cold, arrogant but so endearing somehow.

I don’t want to say too much about the story as I think this is the type of book you just want to go into blind and enjoy every pages of it. What I can say is that DEVIOUS LIES is a heartfelt, breathtaking, slow-burn romance filled with funny moments, emotion, passion and angst.
I highly recommend this book.

Lottie

My heart kept pounding;

Commenté en France le 5 mars 2020

My heart kept pounding;

There are no truer words than the magic ones that emery silently put out the universe, this book shows growth and hell of a lot of twists - its full, of lust, gluttony, greed, anger, violence, fraud, treachery. I loved every single word.

Flora

Incredible

Commenté en France le 28 mars 2020

The writing is magical, some was long especially toward the End, but it doesn’t really matter because I had a great time, and it was hard to put it down.
I’m going to read more of this author!

Ka

Great book

Commenté en France le 24 décembre 2019

This was my first Parker Huntington’s book and I loved it ! Nash is amazingly attractive and I really loved Emery personality.
It’s really a great book and I enjoyed it a lot ! Can’t wait to read other books from her !

Strong but a little bit too long

SMO

Commenté en France le 6 janvier 2020

Yes the story is farfetched but it hooks you up. However the slow burn is too slow and we crave for more sex scenes, more intimate scenes

Buyer

Okay read

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 20 janvier 2020

What was good - the chemistry between the lead characters + the hero who is just a cutie

What wasn’t so good - first 30% was a bore fest! In fact every part where Emery and Nash are not directly speaking to each other either in person or via the app is a bore fest! The author thinks she’s writing poetically or whimsically but infact it’s just majorly dull.

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ShoSho

pretentious

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 29 janvier 2020

I usually don't write reviews but this book was so pretentious. Waste of time. A story about nothing that just dragged on and on. They are all so tormented but I still didn’t get why. The author is so annoying with misplaced classic quotes and words that no one heard of. Not for me

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Imogen W.

Umm

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 14 avril 2020

The heroine of this book is... I can’t even describe it.... the thing about the cupboard, the words, how she talks to herself, when she has a conversation with the ceiling and it’s supposed to be quirky? Struggled at a lot of points. Also the “sex” stuff they do would just give you an infection (random objects that have been exposed to soil?).

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Sianny banany

Addicting

Commenté au Royaume-Uni le 5 mai 2021

Emery has been in love with her best friend Reed for years so when he texts her to say that he and his girlfriend have broken up for good this time, she decides to finally make her move. She sneaks into his room and they have the most explosive sex she’s ever experienced. That is until he switches the light on...and it’s actually Reed’s older brother, Nash. Both shocked, slightly horrified, and begrudgingly still turned on, they agree to never speak of it again and to NEVER tell Reed.

Four years later Emery is desperate for a real job. She’s living paycheck to paycheck, has nowhere to live, and gets most of her meals from a soup kitchen as and when she can. Reed gets her a job as an intern on the design team for Nash’s new hotel. Nash, who pretty much hates her. Nash, who is now a self-made billionaire. Nash, who is as brutal as he is beautiful. She doesn’t want him to know she’s working for him. In fact she doesn’t want anyone to know who she is as there was huge embezzlement scandal at her father’s company a couple of years ago. The company went under, two people lost their lives (one of which was Nash and Reed’s father), and the Winthrops became the most hated family in town. Can she avoid Nash the whole time she works for his company? Well, no, of course she can’t. Fate keeps getting in the way.

I was absolutely hooked on this story within the first few chapters! Emery is petty as hell but I absolutely loved that about her. She’s also stubborn and prideful to a fault. To a point that’s detrimental to her own health, but it just gave her character so much depth. Nash is vengeful and brutal, but at his core he is so generous and caring. They both are.

I love the way fate kept intervening in their lives and bringing them together. I love their arguments, banter, inner thoughts. I love that I learned (and have already forgotten) so many new words! But the thing I loved the most - and this is incredibly pathetic of me - is the mention of my home! Kuala Lumpur! I miss home so much, especially with current travel restrictions, and Malaysia is almost never mentioned in any books I read so I definitely got overly excited about this!

My only negative point is that they kept mentioning some big secret that Emery’s dad was going to spill to her...but we never learn what it is...I don’t think? Perhaps it’s in one of the upcoming books in the series?

All in all, this will take some beating to be toppled off the top spot for my favourite read in May. Yes I know it’s only the 5th...but this book is THAT good.

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