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

Review # 11

I’m very excited to review this next book. It’s called Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen. I gave this book five stars. It was amazing!

Here comes the spoilers in case you want to read this book yourself.

WARNING: SPOILERS

Garden Spells is about the Waverly family. Claire and Sydney. They are sisters that are the complete opposite. Sydney was a wild child while Claire was a homebody, who did right by everyone.

The Waverly’s were highly popular in their cozy North Carolina town. They were popular and well known because they were something magical. They knew things and things would happen when they were around. They weren’t per say witches, but there was something to them. The townspeople didn’t really care for them because they were different. Claire however, always tried to make people like her. She was a caterer and made wonderful meals that everyone loved. She tried to please everyone.

There was Evanelle, an Aunt from what I gathered who also lived in town. She had the power of giving things to people when they need them. A lot of people in town were afraid of her because you never know what she could give you. It was like something called to her and she needed to give it you right away. It could be in the middle of the night and she would have to get it to you.

Sydney ran away from her home where she was living with her daughter Bay and her boyfriend David. David was a bad man. He would beat Sydney within inches of her life, so she and Bay decided to move away from there and back home with Claire, who hadn’t seen her in years. They didn’t always get a long and didn’t see eye to eye.

So when Sydney showed up out of nowhere with a daughter who is five years old, Claire was shocked. She didn’t know what to think about all of this. Sydney wouldn’t tell her anything about the life she was living.

As time passed, the girls became closer. A man named Tyler lived next door to them and Claire had a thing for him, but it was more like he had one for her. You see there was an apple tree that was planted in the Waverly’s backyard. It had a mind of it’s own. It would throw apples and it would spread it’s branches out. It liked the attention. It was magic. It was said that if you ate one of those apples, you would see the one thing you were destined for. It would be either horribly devastating or wonderful.

Tyler ate one of those apples and he saw something that he never imagined. He saw Claire. She pushed him away as much as she could, she didn’t want love or to get hurt. However, there was something about him that drew her in.

Sydney spent a lot of time with Tyler because they were becoming great friends. They would tell each other everything and he would talk about Claire all the time.

Claire would make her infamous magical food to wean people away from her, but it didn’t work on Tyler. She couldn’t stay away from him any longer.

Sydney found Henry, a boy she knew since grade school. She just wanted to be friends with him, but Henry didn’t want that and it took him a good chunk of the book to tell her. At the end, she realized that she loved him. She kissed him to be sure, and it was pure electric. There was one thing though, there was David. The ex.

David pops in at the end of the story during a party that Claire and Sydney are throwing. He carries a gun with him and he shoots Henry in the shoulder. Bay hid away from David, she didn’t want anything to do with him. The tree threw an apple at him, thinking it came from Bay and he ate it. What he saw a few seconds later changed everything. He dropped the gun and he fled.

In the end David gets caught and goes to prison. They believe he saw his death in jail. Henry and Sydney spoke about marriage and Bay became incredibly happy. Claire and Tyler end up together with a baby and an engagement.

They all lived happily ever after.

That was my review of Garden Spells. I know what I wrote didn’t do the book justice but it’s only a tad of what this book is about. If I had to compare it to anything, it reminded me of Practical Magic.