Monty Jay

The Lies we Steal

Madison wright 

Whatever you have to give, I want all of it. All the dark, all the scary. I want it. Forever. Just like that, the shadow child learned that you don't have to step into the light to find happiness. You just need to find the person willing to step into the gray area. It's yours. Every warped part of me. It's yours, little thief. I hope you like playing in the shadows, we will be staying here for a while

And right now, I could stay here for a lifetimne just feeling your heartbeat. I'm not sure what I can give you, but whatever is left of me, whatever I have, it's yours, for as long as you want it

I'm glad you met them. I'm glad you're alive, Alistair 

They should learn to warn others about the children who are left to cultivate with the absence of light. When you take away their luster, the darkness doesn't just become a part of them, they become the darkness

Giulia 🪻

Everyone has secrets. Everyone has a story.

didnt love the pacing at times but overall i liked the plot and loved briar and alistair 

jenna

Dnfed at 26% and I'm still really mad I made it past 3% bc this was such a horrible book urgh

Nala

Macy

If you are a fan of the Devils Night series by Penelope Douglas, please give this book a read. I was hooked from the moment I started reading this. I always have a soft spot for broken characters who end up together. 🥹❤️

brittney arthur

Renata

yall i ate this upppp, it gave me major devils night vibes but damm the mystery and the relationship between briar and alistair uau. i just need to keep reading this series, probably out of order bc im wayyyy to excited for thatcherlyra 

- "There was something inside of her that was more interesting than her looks. The way she didn't run from me. She didn't allow her fear to overcome her. No, she was curious. She let her curiosity win, she wanted to see what I would do."

- "His name is Rook. Rook Van Doren. Son of the district attorney. He's the most..approachable of the four. You'd think his boy next door features would make him the sweet one. But the match is there for a reason," 
"People joke that the match is there to light his short fuse. Last year he burned down the town's oldest Willow tree. No reason behind it. Just did it because he likes to watch things burn. Every fire, every arson crime, everyone knows it's him. But that's just what I've heard."(...) "Thatcher Pierson. Death manifested into one perfectly made human.""Capable of choking you with his bare hands and not feeling anything in his cold, dark heart. He is incapable of feeling anything. Which is why, it's believed the apple didn't fall far from the tree. His father was Ponderosa Springs' one and only serial killer." (...) "Uh, Silas Hawthorne." "Heir to a technology empire. Diagnosed with schizophrenia when he was twelve. Of course his parents tried to cover it up, but there is nothing that stays quiet in Ponderosa Springs. Not forever, anyway. He never used to talk much, but now, since Rosemary, he's practically a mute."(...) "That's Alistair Caldwell. They'd never say it out loud, but everyone knows he's the one calling the shots. His family owns half the town, one of his great-grandparents founded Ponderosa Springs. He fights at The Graveyard every weekend, and he's never lost. I doubt anyone has even laid a hand on him."(...) "The sons of the torturously wealthy. Ponderosa Springs' worst nightmare. They are the Black Death of this town. Not because they are popular, but because they have the power to scare people. Legends. Pretentious and they own every single bit of it. I just, I don't know why they are here." 

- "She was ruining fucking everything. Her smell, the pathetic moans, over eager hips and panting were ruining my concentration. Her existence was fucking up my life. So consumed with her, with getting rid of her, with keeping her quiet that other women were a blur.
All of them out of focus and hazy because my sights were so dialed into what she was doing, where she was, who she was talking to. The night in the pool, she'd done everything I'd wanted her to. A puppet on my wire. Showing her that she was nothing but a toy I could control. It wasn't my intention to have her ride my thigh, but it was my plan to watch her find out who exactly was in charge of this situation. I knew she wouldn't back down. Not even if she was pissing her pants afraid. There is something in Briar Lowell that refuses to allow her to turn away from what frightens her. And I want nothing more than to crush it with my bare fucking hands."

- "I knew who Briar was. I knew the girl she was and who she could be the moment I saw her at that party. I knew the damage she could wreak on this place.
Now it was time for her to see that for herself."

- "How right now, all I wanted was to really have her. Not just to toy with, more than a game. But I wanted to have her laughs. I wanted to swallow them whole and see if they would heal all the rage in my soul. I wanted to bathe in the peace that came with being next to her after sex, when we'd draw lazy circles on each other's bodies and nothing else mattered except the steady sound of her breath on my skin. I knew her fear, but I wanted to know what drove her. What made her smile, why she always wore the same pair of shoes, and what she wanted to be when she grew up. I wanted to be more than the man who scared her. I wanted to be a man she could love even if I had no idea what that meant for me." 

- "I don't know what any of this means if I'm being honest, Briar. I'm not sure how to describe how when I'm around you my heart feels like it's beating for the first time or you make me feel alive." "I'm not sure how to take any of that, what that means for you, for me, for us." (...) "But I do know, I'm obsessed with the way you feel pressed against me. The way your lip curls when you're angry makes me want to piss you off just so I can see it. I'm constantly angry when I hear other people make you laugh, it makes me want to hurt them, because for a moment they were making you happy and I want that job." "And right now, I could stay here for a lifetime just feeling your heartbeat rise. I'm not sure what I can give you, but whatever is left of me, whatever I have, it's yours, for as long as you want it."

- "Whatever you have to give, I want all of it. All the dark, all the scary. I want it. Forever." Just like that, the shadow child learned that you don't have to step into the light to find happiness. You just need to find the person willing to step into the gray area. "It's yours. Every warped part of me. It's yours, Little Thief. I hope you like playing in the shadows, we will be staying here for a while."

- "I heard her heartbeat, just like I did the night she ran from me in the woods. It was beating for the darkness. Beating for me. I tried to catch my breath, listening to my own heart. Listening to it match her rhythm. Two hearts destined to be alone found one another, joining hands and kept beating. Together."

Vanessa

Little Thief

This was the perfect palate cleanser between books. Dark, angsty, spicy. 

There were spelling mistakes along the way, and if that’s something that bugs you, just keep that in mind. Overall, good and easy read!

Faith Kitowski

i- uh- i don’t have many words but thatcher is actually terrifying and this was kinda👀🫢 but like😏 i’m gonna need to read the next one

celene

“I admired that about her. How even though it seemed impossible to anyone else, she believed that I deserved the best out of everything.”

JoLee

Good read with murder, suspense and revenge. Four best friends since childhood, Alistair, Rook, Thatcher and Silas. All come from wealthy families but have trouble past. All have their own personalities that I am interested in. Alistair is the possessive, jerk ahole hero and Briar the heroine at the wrong place and wrong time that changed her life forever. I loved the suspense plot but did feel it over took the romance a bit. I still enjoyed the New Adult bully romance, enemies to lovers and good amount of angst. Good set up for the next book and couple.

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