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A review by rachana
Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger
3.0
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Warning: There are spoilers!
The book started off well but then it started to go downhill..
Sonny is this compulsive liar who ends up falling for Ryder Cross (the guy who she thought she can’t stand)..The only problem is that Ryder is into her best friend Amy. So of-course Sonny has to concoct millions more lies to get Ryder to like her but hate Amy.
Maybe I expected too much of this book…but there’s basically no plot. (Sometimes this actually works out great but not in this book.) There just wasn’t enough happening and I got bored. The storyline was pretty predictable too but I stuck with it just to see if things would happen the way I thought they would…and they did.
Apart from Sonny, the rest of the characters weren’t really that great. (And Sonny isn’t likeable either.. but she is quirky and flawed so that’s something!) Ryder was annoying and assumed things too easily. His banter with Sonny was cute but their interactions in real life kind-of sucked and even when they were supposedly boyfriend/girlfriend, I still felt like it was very one-sided. Amy was kind-of spoiled and she couldn’t seem to stand up for herself. She annoyed me because she often fixated on her own problems when Sonny was freaking homeless because her mother abandoned her.
Amy and Sonny’s friendship was the best part of the book but of-course it got messed up because of Sonny’s lying and obsessive crush on Ryder.
BUT I’d still recommend this book because it was interesting and the premise is pretty original…so go read it and tell me what you think!!
Warning: There are spoilers!
The book started off well but then it started to go downhill..
Sonny is this compulsive liar who ends up falling for Ryder Cross (the guy who she thought she can’t stand)..The only problem is that Ryder is into her best friend Amy. So of-course Sonny has to concoct millions more lies to get Ryder to like her but hate Amy.
Maybe I expected too much of this book…but there’s basically no plot. (Sometimes this actually works out great but not in this book.) There just wasn’t enough happening and I got bored. The storyline was pretty predictable too but I stuck with it just to see if things would happen the way I thought they would…and they did.
Apart from Sonny, the rest of the characters weren’t really that great. (And Sonny isn’t likeable either.. but she is quirky and flawed so that’s something!) Ryder was annoying and assumed things too easily. His banter with Sonny was cute but their interactions in real life kind-of sucked and even when they were supposedly boyfriend/girlfriend, I still felt like it was very one-sided. Amy was kind-of spoiled and she couldn’t seem to stand up for herself. She annoyed me because she often fixated on her own problems when Sonny was freaking homeless because her mother abandoned her.
Amy and Sonny’s friendship was the best part of the book but of-course it got messed up because of Sonny’s lying and obsessive crush on Ryder.
BUT I’d still recommend this book because it was interesting and the premise is pretty original…so go read it and tell me what you think!!