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Seven Ways We Lie
by Riley Redgate
(2.5/5 stars)
Audiobook
This book had a really great premise and I was super interested to pick it up. I thought it was okay, a decent read, EXCEPT the fact that this book HEAVILY romanticizes teacher-student relationships, something I really do not like or support.
This story follows seven different points of view, each meant to represent one of the deadly sins. The story starts with a teacher-student relationship being brought to light at the high school, only no one knows who the teacher or the student is. The book then follows the seven perspectives of seven different students, all dealing with their own issues, as well as wondering who could be in this relationship.
I felt the overall story was done quite well. I really enjoy character driven books, and I found this to be highly character driven. However, there were so many side plots that I found the main plot (the teacher-student relationship) to fall away, only to be picked up later when it was necessary to resolve a plot point. I found the side plots to occasionally be more fleshed out than the main plot, not that I didn't enjoy the side plots, I typically enjoyed them more than the main plot.
This book has great pansexual rep, as well as really good asexual/aromantic rep. One is identified in the story, and the other is not. Some characters I really enjoyed, while others I felt to be annoying and I didn't want to hear from their perspectives at all. The teacher-student relationship is pretty randomly done, I have to say. It also seems as though the author was trying to make the relationship acceptable, through loopholes and such. But I just wasn't here for it at all.
If this is something you want to read, I recommend picking up the audiobook. Each character is voiced by a different actor and I felt them all to really represent the character they were narrating. It was also interesting to hear how each character would speak another characters dialogue, I found that gave some insight into how the other characters felt they sounded.
Audiobook
This book had a really great premise and I was super interested to pick it up. I thought it was okay, a decent read, EXCEPT the fact that this book HEAVILY romanticizes teacher-student relationships, something I really do not like or support.
This story follows seven different points of view, each meant to represent one of the deadly sins. The story starts with a teacher-student relationship being brought to light at the high school, only no one knows who the teacher or the student is. The book then follows the seven perspectives of seven different students, all dealing with their own issues, as well as wondering who could be in this relationship.
I felt the overall story was done quite well. I really enjoy character driven books, and I found this to be highly character driven. However, there were so many side plots that I found the main plot (the teacher-student relationship) to fall away, only to be picked up later when it was necessary to resolve a plot point. I found the side plots to occasionally be more fleshed out than the main plot, not that I didn't enjoy the side plots, I typically enjoyed them more than the main plot.
This book has great pansexual rep, as well as really good asexual/aromantic rep. One is identified in the story, and the other is not. Some characters I really enjoyed, while others I felt to be annoying and I didn't want to hear from their perspectives at all. The teacher-student relationship is pretty randomly done, I have to say. It also seems as though the author was trying to make the relationship acceptable, through loopholes and such. But I just wasn't here for it at all.
If this is something you want to read, I recommend picking up the audiobook. Each character is voiced by a different actor and I felt them all to really represent the character they were narrating. It was also interesting to hear how each character would speak another characters dialogue, I found that gave some insight into how the other characters felt they sounded.