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A review by meganwil18
All the Little Lies by S.J. Sylvis
3.0
2.5-3 ⭐️
If you’re looking for something new and bursting full of that typical bully angst, you probably won’t find it here.
Somehow All the Little Lies simultaneously drags and manages to feel rushed. Story-wise it’s a fairly standard prep school bully romance that follows the same format as most others in the genre. It’s more of an enemies to friends to lovers, there isn’t a lot of bullying and the small amount there is ends fairly early in the book. The majority of the book felt quite dragged out, it became a bit of a chore to finish and I skimmed the last 30%.
The plot around Hayley’s background, what happened to her father and what happened to make Christian hate Hayley held a lot of promise but really didn’t deliver. The reveal around Hayley’s background story was rushed into the last 10% of the book and over before it could even be developed although a lot more could have been done with it.
I also didn’t really buy into the tension or romance between Hayley and Christian. I ended up not really caring about them as a couple. The book did a good job of setting up a connection between the two main characters from book 2 who I was definitely a lot more invested in, but maybe not quite invested enough to read it.
All in all not a bad read, just badly paced and didn’t quite match up to other similar books in the prep school bully genre.
If you’re looking for something new and bursting full of that typical bully angst, you probably won’t find it here.
Somehow All the Little Lies simultaneously drags and manages to feel rushed. Story-wise it’s a fairly standard prep school bully romance that follows the same format as most others in the genre. It’s more of an enemies to friends to lovers, there isn’t a lot of bullying and the small amount there is ends fairly early in the book. The majority of the book felt quite dragged out, it became a bit of a chore to finish and I skimmed the last 30%.
The plot around Hayley’s background, what happened to her father and what happened to make Christian hate Hayley held a lot of promise but really didn’t deliver. The reveal around Hayley’s background story was rushed into the last 10% of the book and over before it could even be developed although a lot more could have been done with it.
I also didn’t really buy into the tension or romance between Hayley and Christian. I ended up not really caring about them as a couple. The book did a good job of setting up a connection between the two main characters from book 2 who I was definitely a lot more invested in, but maybe not quite invested enough to read it.
All in all not a bad read, just badly paced and didn’t quite match up to other similar books in the prep school bully genre.