A review by sammytvo
Dishonestly Yours by Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie

4.0

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review!

"hoax" and "guilty as sin?" by taylor swift HELLO these are phoebe and rocky's songs!!

the con artist life in this book was giving anna delvey!! And I love it!! It was definitely a new direction that i wasn’t expecting from kbr

the story mainly follows two best friends phoebe graves and hailey tinrock running away from their conning lifestyle and trying to live a more honest life.

personally, it took me a while to get into the story because of the large cast especially with keeping track of who is who and who is related to whom. once i figured it out, i was LOCKED IN!!

anyways i enjoyed the overall story!! The book introduces readers to a exciting world of cons with faking identities, and stealing from the rich - definitely shocking moments during their cons that i made my jaw drop like truly did not expect kbr to write this. the web of this world is tangled but its slowly unraveling and i'm excited to read more!

SPOILERS INCOMING

i love the characters and their own different personalities. 

hailey - where she has a goth style which is reminiscent of kinney hale, but she is also the genius in the family like a mix of rose calloway/garrison. 

Hailey !!! I love her! Her loyalty to her loved ones and overall strength made me adore her so much. 

phoebe and hailey my two girlies

i wish we got to know the characters more as well as their relationships with each other but book was more plot-focused and its understandable that we don’t truly understand each character bc of their other fake alias mixed in. 

the rest of the cast is introduced later on in the book. i wish we got to meet them sooner to establish a sense of attachment/familiarity for me (or better character building) because towards the end of the book, there’s a huge plot twist involving the group. The plot twist was still surprising but it would’ve been more impactful if I had a better connection with some of the characters as a reader or at least the group dynamics 

this book involved the marketing of found family and I see the idea of it but I wish it was more emphasized. However, I understand this is still the first book to the series and that the story is just developing. 

i wish there was a tw warning in the beginning of the book of the content. 

tw: assault mentioned