
The Lies That Bind
Reviews

I rarely run across a character I genuinely hate...but Grant is a character I genuinely hate.

I've never read a book with more unlikable characters.

I don’t give out a lot of 5s for contemporaries (especially romance) but I actually really enjoyed this book! I loved that it was set in NYC and there was more going on than just the love triangle. I highly recommend the book!

3.5/5. I enjoyed this book but wasn’t too too happy with how it ended.

Wow, just wow. When I thought I knew what this book was about I was wrong. It started off sad, 9/11 going through grief. Then Cecily started getting obsessive, and then it all went off the rails. I'm not giving this book such a high rating on it's believability (because really?), I gave it 4 stars because it was a wild ride that had me emotionally invested.

Originally rated 2 stars, but have since changed it to 1 star. I swore to myself that I wouldn’t read another Emily Giffin book, but when I read the synopsis for “The Lies That Bind,” I knew I had to give her one last shot. The synopsis reminded me of "Something Borrowed" and "Something Blue", both of which I reread so many times as a teenager. So I figured one more book wouldn't hurt. And well * insert regret here.* Now the first portion of this book, not bad. Add in a nice meet-cute and some insta-love and you got yourself a nice start. But then it turned into one hot mess. It was an awful trainwreck, I couldn’t look away. I had to keep reading because I had to see if it got worse. (spoiler alert… it did) It was like Giffin just tossed a bunch of bad plotlines into a jar and picked 10 of them out to use. Some of them made zero sense & were impossible to come back from. But the last and final straw was using a moment like 9/11 to move her plot. Which didn't even make sense!! Now that I have given Emily Giffin one last shot, I can safely say I will no longer read her books. Her books are just not for me anymore.

















