ARC Review | A Den of Liars By Jessica S. Olson

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✨ 𝓶𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓾𝓫𝓵𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓷𝓮𝓽𝓰𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓪𝓻𝓬 ✨

Find a sunny spot, grab your beverage of choice, and turn on some music. it's time for this review lovelies.

it all started a week ago when i opened up my email and was shocked to see i actually got an arc. i was grinning and telling everyone i could that "i got an arc of Den of Liars!" my sister was concerned for my sanity - as she rightly should be - and my mom thought it was the coolest thing. but alas i didn't have time to read it right away so i had to wait till the weekend.

I started and finished da book in a single night. staying up wayyy to late for my own good, because this book is going to take the world by storm.

🎲 A young thief attempting a daring casino heist during a high-stakes tournament is torn between two warring brothers in Den of Liars, a thrilling YA fantasy romance by acclaimed author Jessica S. Olson. 🎲

everything about this book was amazing, i loved it all. there was a few cons but please 99% of this book was perfection earning

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↪ 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓼

✨ a well-done love triangle >>>>> I hate love triangles, and have read exactly three i like. this one is the fourth. girlies, THE TWO MEN SHE COULD END UP WITH?!?!?! honesty, i would be okay if she ended up with either. (and i get the other one)

✨ the casino setting! I could feel the lights and the action, i could see the card games unfold. drink the yesterfizz with Lola.

✨ our characters were written very very well, to me they all felt real. each of the main characters had an issue they were working through that was written so well.

✨he is obsessed with her and she doesn't know it | we get his POV dieS

✨enemies to lovers done right

✨Reads like a fantasy even though it really isn't.

✨there were SOO many annotatable quotes, when i get the physical copy of this book you better believe that it will be marked up so hard.

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◊ the ending felt a little rushed, if we could just have gotten another few chapters that would have been lovely.

◊ a few of the story elements felt confuzzled. mostly because i was reading it like a fantasy not dystopian. despite the fact the book is a cross-genre book i was still taken by shock when they hopped in a getaway car. i feel like she could have ebbed into that a bit more.

◊ during one aspect of the tournament it felt slightly rushed but not necessarily in a bad way.

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i was attached to her from the start, her personality is intoxicating. not the mention that she uses sarcasm as a coping mechanism, she made me laugh sooo many times. her ptsd was written so well and the fact she wasn't unbeatable. now adays so many characters are over powered but not our Lola no she is just the right amount of kick but and soft girly looking for love.

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the overprotective and cursed 'older brother' type character. i liked him instantly at the first time we were introduced to him. he steels things as a living and is good at it. having a magical ability and all. ;) but i really liked him, he did do some things that were kinda messed up but always was there for our fmc.

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the owner of the cassino, The Liar. I, like our fmc, hated him to start with but by 20% he had be screaming, banging my fist against my desk with his BANTER. I could read endless pages of that banter. he also deals with secrets instead of cash which I found so fascinating.

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All in all this book SLAYD. I will recommend for a long time and feel like it is the perfect summer/fall read possibly with a coffee?? though that could just be me <3 have a wonderful day and PLEASE READ THIS BOOK

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Loved this book so much. lovelies i have a feeling it is going to take the world by storm. full review to come < 3 •°*”˜.

Have a lovely day <3

K. Florence