Consuming, all-the-feels, addictive... 5 STARS

Holy freaking **** !! I just finished Devious Lies by Parker S Huntington- a new to me author. Her writing is PHENOMENAL and evokes so much emotions and thought... I don’t want it to end!! I rarely listen to an audiobook unless I’ve read the book. But this is soooo good- I want to read it all over again and highlight ALL THE WORDS!! It is addictive and unputdownable. I devoured it- as much as it consumed me, gripped me, owned me. Nash and Emery are EVERYTHING!! Their chemistry is so electric. Wow, Just WOW!!! The Narrators- Sebastian York as Nash and Desireé Ketchum as Emery- couldn’t be more perfect for this audiobook. ⭐️ ALL THE STARS ⭐️ 5/5 stars all round ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Pretentious and long winded.

I will never read another book by this author, they seem to have an obsession with trying to prove how intelligent they are. This book feels almost condescending, like oh look I know so many words you most likely don’t let me keep throwing them in your face until you want to run head first into a brick wall. The author was just trying too hard This book is about 5 hours too long, there are chapters and chapters that should have been edited out. They were unnecessary and added nothing to the book. The main characters were frustrating. Emery just pissed me off with her stupid stubborn behaviour, but I didn’t hate her. What I did hate though was Nash acting like a complete di**head towards her without any real evidence that’s she deserved to be treated badly. I hate that his actions were basically forgiven, all because he started to feed her. Like are you serious? I’m all for slow burners but this felt like it was moving at a snail pace, I had to listen to a lot of it at 1.25x speed just so I wouldn’t throw a fit. If I never have to hear the word Sisyphus again it will be too soon. This is just an unremarkable book trying too hard.

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What a load of rubbish!

First of all the female narration is awful. Second of all boring does not begin to describe it, I got through the first three hours and gave up! At hour number three it became pure audio porn! This story is about as exciting as a wet match and as effective. How this book got five stars is totally beyond me.

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Sublime

Wow. I don't know where to start, and I know I can't do this story justice in my review, but this is one very special novel. It is FANTASTIC. This is a gem of a tale. It's big, it's gutsy, it's an amazingly well crafted enemies-to-lovers story. I have read the Anti-Fling by Ms Huntington (a very short story) about these two amazing people: Emery and Nash, and I knew in my bones that their story deserved a full novel. This story exceeded any expectations I had by a country mile! The characters are so well drawn and believable. They are flawed and quirky, struggling, angry and proud. The themes of penance, revenge, forgiveness and truth run throughout, and these two characters have an undeniable chemistry and sense of fate. I have to commend the authors craft. Her words. The unusual, obscure words. I think she really must have put her heart and soul, and her whole everything into this story. It is absolutely amazing. I do need to mention the two narrators who really added to this story. They brought the whole story to life.

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could not stop listening very addictive

loved it so much got into it so quickly ended up listening to chapter 20 then was finished chapter 55 in same day.

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Must read!

Loved this story and feel gutted it ended! Full of twists and turns, will they won’t they right until the end!! Love Sebastian York!! 😊

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🥰 Nash🥰

Absolutely loved this, slow start but well worth it! Couple of insider references that are perfect re Sebastian York

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Holy hotness

I knew this would be amazing but I didn’t think it would leave me a sleep deprived wreck. This was a fantastic listen from start to finish. The narration just pushed it from being an amazing story to coming to life.

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Struggled To Finish

This Audiobook was way to long for what it gave it the end. The worst was the female lead with her talking to the ceiling crap and the ceiling talking back. Nothing was discussed completely and to many things were left hanging. A fourteen hour listen just to have two main sex scenes and two oral scenes (not including the golf scene cause I was disgusted by the use of a dirty golf club many have used before and that scene had no point to the love story). To be fair many scenes had no point to their love story. Also way have so many additional characters if the writer isn't gonna give some background about them or why they play a part in the two main characters love story. Especially the design team for the Hotel. Nothing felt complete with their presence in the book. I could also talk about the crazy non relevant words Emelia used with every sentence. Really did not care for that and that seemed to take up half the book. Waste of time listening to that cause who really is gonna remember those words and the meanings. Also weird was the references to pop culture (Kardashians). Didn't need that in the book at all and it seemed like many parts could have been left out just to make this book more romantic and less like and an English course on obscure words. The only saving grace was Sebastian York reading for the Nash and that was so few and his back story also wasn't filled in completely. Very disappointed I wasted the time on this book.

Definitely worth it!

This is the 2nd time I have listened to this book and I have already agreed with myself that I will do it again in a couple of months. This story has everything.... *romance *humour *happiness *sad times for the characters *saucy sex scenes (bordering on erotic although it doesn't happen all the way through the book... More like a few, well detailed, naughty, exciting, (full) sex scenes spread out almost one in the beginning, one in the middle and one in the end) *a decent plot with unexpected twists *characters who have odd quirks, making it more real because they have unique personalities like everyone else in the world. *the bad boy who turns out to be a hopeless romantic once he realises he's in love. ........ And much much more!! I can honestly say that I love this book and I wish I could have a 2nd book to learn more about what happens next. Maybe even a book with the main character's brother as the first person. If one ever comes out, no matter who's story is the primary, I'd be reading it as soon as physically possible. This is just THAT GOOD! The narrators have done a fantastic job with the characters and they were the best people for the audio book. I don't doubt that for a second. If you're like me and you get fully submerged into a book (using your very vivid imagination), then you will spend your time listening to this story smiling, laughing, frowning, giggling, rolling your eyes, concerned, hopeful, angry and possibly even horny! It's definitely well written and worth the credit to experience it! I know that I am certainly incredibly pleased to be able to listen to it whenever I want to. Hopefully you will feel that way too. I REALLY can't think of anything I can say on the negative side... and that's odd for me. I'm always honest and as unbiased as possible when writing reviews, in order to help others to decide on whether to get a copy for themselves. I've sat here for about 10 minutes just staring at the screen without any criticism popping into my head (which is really irritating right now), and I'm just thinking that I want more. I sincerely hope that a series suddenly appears in the not so distant future...... Fingers and toes crossed.