A review by lanidon
The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava

2.0

This isn't a bad book, but it's also not a good one. I want to like Ember, she just makes it really hard. She lies about dumb things in a way that just feels immature but then she acts like those lies are righteous and everyone is a big meanie for not getting down with her lies. You can't build a relationship on lies and you can't build a romance book on them either. She would have been fine if she had just stopped after lying on her resume. She has a lot of growing up to do and I don't think she's ready for a relationship, much less a job like this. It makes it feel like all the rejections she got were correct and not blindly racist like we're supposed to believe. 

Donuwoa rules though, he's a great leading man. I wish he were in another book because this one doesn't do him justice. I wanted more of him and his sister and less of the mc, which sucks to say. I think the book would be improved if it were dual perspective and he had POV chapters.

Lastly, this audiobook is a crime. The narrator talks like she's reading a middle grade book, which really intensifies how immature Ember feels. I had to skip any sexual scene because it sounds like a thirteen year old talking about her one direction fan fiction. A book like this did not need explicit sex scenes to begin with, but the narration makes it so bad that I almost dropped the book entirely