The Opportunist (Love Me with Lies #1)

I found this book so irritating! The main character is so ridiculous with her constant mood fluctuations and immature reaction. I wanted to scream at one point…

You know those books that make you feel like the wind has been knocked out of you once you finish it? That I-can\’t-pick-up-another-book-just-yet-cuz-I-need-to-think kind of feeling? Yeah, that\’s this one for sure. What can I say about Olivia? She\’s that imperfect heroine that we can\’t help but both love and hate. She\’s so familiar yet we scratch our heads trying to figure out how anyone can do the things that she does. And Caleb is nothing but the complete opposite as her. They are both drawn to each other like a moth to a flame, but they are both toxic for each other. Tarryn Fisher\’s writing is exquisite. She knows just how to envoke every emotion under the moon – make your heart swell and break and beat and die all in one sentence. In the end, she tells the truth – how does this love story end? – reality prevails. The narrator did an excellent job at bringing the characters to life. I had a grand time at highlighting all my favorite lines in the book and I must have marked a million. A few of my favorites are as follows: I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away.\” And then he left. He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next. I had now officially secured my front row seat on the train to Hell. Choo choo

I read the book originally, but I decided to buy the Audible version! I was not disappointed! This version does Tarryn\’s book justice!

And the audible version is the icing on the cake! The narrator did a great job, made my heart skip more than once. I just love this story and Tarry\’s writing..this a book that will always stay with me and I will always go back to read or listen.. …on to DIRTY Red…..

This is an emotional train wreck of a love story which alternates in flashbacks to College years when Caleb and Olivia first meet and the cold aloof persona Olivia takes when being pursued by Caleb. This is due to her nightmare upbringing which has left her with \’issues\’ that not even Caleb can overcome. And also their Class differences – a handsome rich Jock and a poor uptight Virgin. It\’s constantly flashing forward/back in time telling a story of obsessive love and the lengths and depths Olivia and Leah (his present day girlfriend) sink to in order to keep Caleb. The only person I felt truly sorry for was Caleb as there was always someone pulling his strings with secrets, lies, manipulation and hidden agendas all of her own. Both girls/women were \’me me me\’ bitches until the end when one of them finally grew a conscience, made the ultimate sacrifice and walked away….. for love. And then it turns out Caleb too had lied. The story spans years, is full of angst, twists and regrets and I felt so angry, sad and bad for the lost opportunities that Olivia and Caleb had squandered with the navet of youth, pride, jealousy, anger, hurt feelings or just bad timings. They fought instead of neutered, struck out instead of hugged and withheld instead of shared. There\’s no real passion, or romance, or sex but longing looks and the sense of their soul deep connection…… until the end when the selfless sacrifice was made too late. Told from Olivia\’s POV by a fairly good narrator. Worth a credit? Mmmm that\’s a difficult question, it\’s an enjoyable but frustrating YA/NA romance that goes on to become a vicious poisonous web of lies and deceit by all parties as they mature and grow and I\’ll have to download the remaining books to find the elusive HEA. I gave it 4 stars because it was well written, unpredictable and somehow addictive, but it didn\’t give me, or leave me, with that feel good feeling…. it was a tragedy. So you decide – are you in the mood for Romeo and Juliet?

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