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Original Title:	Tell Me Lies
ISBN:	0312932820 (ISBN13: 9780312932824)
Edition Language:	English

Tell Me Lies

Jennifer Crusie

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.71 | 12209 Users | 505 Reviews

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Title	:	Tell Me Lies
Author	:	Jennifer Crusie
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	July 11th 2004 by St. Martin's Paperbacks (first published January 1st 1998)
Categories	:	Romance. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit. Contemporary Romance. Fiction. Contemporary. Humor

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I cannot enjoy a story where the major plot events are based on heroine stupidity.

Tell Me Lies had five major stupidities. Here are two of them.

Maddie knows a security guard watches couples having sex at a place called The Point. So why does she insist that CL take her there to have sex? When the guard sees them, she is horrified. She is worried that he will gossip and she may have trouble getting custody of her daughter in the divorce. Apparently I am supposed to believe she had been drinking and forgot about the security guard.

Maddie is a suspect in the murder of her husband. Someone planted the murder weapon (gun) in her car. When she sees it, she picks it up which puts her fingerprints on it.

Stupidity is the main reason I did not give it more stars. But a second reason was “the heroine lying to her daughter and others” was not interesting. Her husband is having an affair and a divorce is coming. But Maddie tells her daughter that everything is fine. Her habit is telling lies to her daughter. Toward the end the daughter is upset at all the lies, so Maddie promises to be truthful. But after this sweet connection, she tells more lies to her daughter. For example someone was hired to hit Maddie’s car, but Maddie tells her daughter it was an accident, not intentional. The daughter asks if Maddie is going to marry CL. Maddie says no. The reader knows they will marry.

Another lie was everyone “knew” her husband hit her, but she continued to say she ran into a wall. On balance, the lies were not interesting or entertaining - to me.

Another reader liked this book and commented to me “her insecurity, stupidity, impulsiveness, closeness to her mother and grandmother, obliviousness to her husband, et al make her a three-dimensional person.” So some will like this.

I’ve read this twice, in 2007 and 2012.

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Story length: 347 pages. Swearing language: moderate to strong, including religious swear words. Sexual language: none to mild. Number of sex scenes: three or four. Setting: current day Ohio. Copyright. 1998. Genre: romantic mystery.

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Ratings: 3.71 From 12209 Users | 505 Reviews

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Reads like womens lit, but she has a special genius for character development.

This book wasn't quite what I look for when I Jennifer Crusie's novels. That, in and of itself, could account for the relatively low stars I've given it in comparison to her other works. The dialogue was fun, as it is in every Crusie book, but there wasn't much else to recommend the story. I'd say this book belongs in a special subset of chick-lit that I like to call "adultery-lit." These are the books wherein a spouse seeks and finds fulfillment outside of marriage. Maddie, our protagonist, has

This one wasn't one of my favorites of JC's. I've read several of her books and really enjoyed them, but this one had a small town gossip undercurrent that started to bug me fairly soon into the book. It bothered me that the characters were so worried about what the town thought that it effected everything that they did. Some of that is okay, we all live with it a little, but this went over the top. I really liked the characters and their relationships to each other, but the story seemed to drag

I always know that a book by Jennifer Crusie will not let me down. There is so much going on in this book that you have no idea which way is up. The reader literally has all the clues to solve the mystery but it really isn't until the MC starts to make connections that you are like "it was in front of my face the whole time". I enjoyed the story line and the little mystery (even though it it technically chic-lit). Overall a good read.

I'm going to give this 2.5 stars. I'd give it higher if it wasn't Jennifer Crusie--I expect more from her. I sort of knew I wasn't going to love this book because it's one of her earlier ones. 1998 or so, which is well before her favs of mine: Welcome to Temptation, Fast Women, Faking It, Agnes and the Hitman, and even Wild Ride. (Everyone LOVES Bet Me, but I didn't. It was good, but not the best Crusie, imo.) This one is on the lower (early) Crusie tier, along with Charlie All Night, Crazy for

I love a lot of what Jennifer Crusie has written for funny, light reads -- my favorites are probably Bet Me and Welcome to Temptation, but a lot of the others are also very entertaining.Tell Me Lies reads like a "proto-Crusie" -- a lot of her characteristic elements are there: fiesty heroine discovering her inner fabulousness, redeemable hero being redeemed, cute kid, even cuter dog, fabulous friends and/or family characters, mystery to be solved complicating heroine and hero getting together.

I liked Maddie and C.L. and I liked their relationship, too. And Maddie's daughter Em had some stellar moments that gave the book an endearing heart I greatly appreciated. Indeed, if it hadn't been for Maddie's husband Brent this would easily have been four stars. Yeah, Brent had affairs and their marriage hadn't been working for years, obviously, but I still just can't get past Maddie's adulteryand that goes for C.L. as well (since he was fully aware of the state of affairs . . . heh).The rest