Posted on by Melissa Rose Bushey: Author

Tell Me Lies Review

So I know it has been a while and the reason for that is because life is just busy. I am here now, and that’s all that matter haha just kidding. A

Anyway, I am here to do my review of Tell Me Lies.

Tell Me Lies is based on the novel by Carola Lovering. It has grown in popularity and was picked up by Hulu. I admit I never heard of the show. It wasn’t until a co-worker reached out to me and told me about it. One night after work, I decided why not put it on, since I was on the hunt for a show to watch.

As soon as I turned this show on, it put it’s nasty hooks in me. I was addicted. I could not stop watching.

SPOIL ALERT!!!

Tell Me Lies is about Lucy Albright. A young woman who never really had emotions it seemed in the beginning. Meaning no empathy. She was a freshman in college in NY and met two girls Bree and Pipa. They became fast friends. They were inseparable, until Stephen DeMarco entered the scene. A guy who seemed to have it all figured it out. He wasn’t the best looking, but he was oozing with confidence. He had an off/on again girlfriend Diana.

Lucy was attractive and that appealed to Stephen. They met at a party on campus. That was it and they too became inseparable. At first Stephen was sweet, he was there for Lucy when she was don and out about something. But he got his hooks in Lucy so tight. She had her first real orgasm with Stephen and fell in love with him. Stephen however, he just seemed like he was playing Lucy and going back and forth with Diana, at one point sleeping with both of them. It was disgusting and poor taste but I ached for more, because I love smut trash. Who doesn’t?

Stephen also had two best friends. Wrigley and Evan that were Sophomores. Wrigley was with Pipa and Evan was back and forth with Bree who he eventually married. There was an incident in welcome week where Wrigley’s brother who was a freshman, got drunk and drove and thought he ran an innocent girl off the road, when in actuality it was Stephen who was driving the car of the girl and she died. Stephen never came forward but told that juicy information to Lucy who held onto that, which eventually drove her mad.

Wrigley told Pipa also in confidence, but Wrigley’s brother Drew didn’t want anyone know about this. Stephen told Drew to never tell anyone. But that ate at him to where he eventually died from overdosing accidently it seems. Lucy was apart of why Drew was falling apart she wrote to the dean about what happened asking them to question to Drew, but nothing ever came of that.

After Drew passed, Lucy was going to admit to Wrigley about this anonymous letter she wrote but Stephen took the fall for that. Lucy loved him for that.

However, that was when things took a turn for the worse. Everything started falling apart with Lucy. She lied and said she was SA’d by her best friends brother when her friend Pipa actually was. Stephen found out she lied and made her come clean on tape but said he would never send it out to the students. Lucy felt like he hung this over her head and he completely drove her mad. She couldn’t sleep, she was hallucinating.

In the midst of all this Bree was having a full affair with a college professor who was married and the wife was Lucy and Bree’s teacher.

Lucy was drunk one night and Evan and her slept together, so technically Evan cheated on Bree which also at at Lucy. She felt terrible for sleeping with her best friends ex boyfriend.

At the end of the last season, it was brought to our attention that Bree found out on her own and no one know. Stephen called Bree and left a voicemail on Bree’s phone the day she was getting married to Evan. He wanted to destroy Evan because Evan told him about him and Lucy sleeping together and that devastated him. The whole show was a sex fest it seemed.

Everyone was sleeping with each other. Pipa ended up sleeping with Diana and actually ended up together in the end. Wrigley and Bree were sleeping each other all the way up the the wedding of her and Evan’s. Lucy wasn’t sleeping with anyone, she was expelled from Baird for lying about the SA, which Bree released because of the whole sleeping with Evan part.

Stephen DeMarco was a twisted man, who only cared about himself really. He had a terrible home life, with a mom he couldn’t stand and a sister who he tried to take care of, and a brother who seemed like he didn’t want nothing to do with.

In the end Stephen exposed everyone in front of each other at the wedding. It was crazy and it seemed like the writers of the show wanted to just throw everything together.

In my opinion, the first and second season were good. Had me hooked. Season 3 lost me. It seemed sloppy and they just threw everything in there, which was sad because I did enjoy it. Maybe reading the book would be better if you were interested. Out of 4 stars, I give it about 2.5.

M.

Posted on by Melissa Rose Bushey: Author

Book Review/Dead of Winter

I’m doing my book review on Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates. If you don’t want to hear how review, just scroll along 🙂

SPOIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I first started reading Dead of Winter, I was really excited. The books I read by Darcy Coates so far were amazing. I loved her style of writing and also I am a big fan of horror. This book however, kind of threw me off. It started off with Christa and her boyfriend Kiernan going for what seemed like a romantic getaway to a lodge in the middle of the nowhere. However, it didn’t happen that way. The bus that they took along with other travelers were stranded because a tree had fallen and they couldn’t make it to the lodge. The travelers decided to try and get out of the snow storm that was coming down and they found a cabin. Not before Christa and Kiernan were separated from the group. Christa fell down an embarkment and was injured and she and Kiernan were then separated.

Christa made it back to a cabin that the group was nestled in and was abandoned. She wanted to look for Kiernan, but he was long gone and missing. With the blizzard of a snow storm, it was impossible to find him. They had to wait it out to look for him.

This is where the story takes a turn. One by one the people of the group get taken out. I mean they are murdered in cold blood. Nobody knows who is doing this and everyone is freaking out. In the meantime, they think that it’s one of their group that is staking out people’s lives. They fear for their lives and keep a close watch on each other. Many times they tried to escape the cabin to try and get help. They made it as far as the bus and saw a body laying on the ground without a head. Christa thought it was Kiernan and she found a ring in his pocket. She was even more upset because she thought he was going to propose to her. Christa wanted to stay with him but the storm was becoming wild again and they had to turn back to the cabin.

The days were running together and there were only a few of them left. It started with about 10 people. One night they managed to catch the killer and tied her up, but what they didn’t realize was that she wasn’t the killer at all. Christa came across her body mutilated. Christa took off when she saw a man Denny running after her with an axe. She ran as far as she could and made it to the lodge eventually. The doors were unlocked and dark but she was able to hide.

This is where a twist took place. Christa heard a struggle and Denny’s head rolled down the steps. She saw a man approaching her and it was Kiernan. She was so happy because she thought he had died. Until she realized that he was the killer.

The point of all of this, was Kiernan orchestrated this whole trip because his little brother drowned in a lake from a car accident and he was trapped. He wanted to pick off each person that had to do with his death. He left Christa for last. She managed to kill Kiernan and she was saved.

My thoughts

This book did have a lot of action in it. It did start off slow but then it picked up in the middle. The end of the book was the best part because it kept me on my toes. The book gave a lot of description which is great, but there were thing that didn’t make any sense. For example, when Christa was running away from Denny, she was using a flashlight and he could see the light and know where she was at all times. All in all I give this book 3.5 out of 5.