I really wanted to like this book a lot more than I did. After all, I like crafting, and I tend to enjoy critical looks at Christianity. While it wasn't the worst book ever, but I stopped enjoying the experience of reading it at, like, 30%. Unfortunately the book just didn't manage to live up to anything it promised.

When I finished this book, despite having just finished a story attempting to be very moving and emotional, I just felt confused. While this is a creative concept, the execution falls flat and fails to deliver on all of its promises.

No matter how you pitch it, mystery/thriller books that expose the dark side of social media are never that revolutionary, and "Everyone is Lying to You" is no exception. While I was interested by the idea of looking at trad wives specifically, the author did not deliver on this idea. This ended up being an underwhelming, inexperienced, and apolitical perspective exploration.

This book was weird. If I hadn't won it in a Giveaway, I probably wouldn't have finished it. The writing wasn't anything impressive, the topic was strange, and the mystery was underwhelming.

I won this book in a Goodreads Giveaway, and it took me a long time to read it because it just wasn't grabbing my attention. In a lot of ways the book was just fine, but the execution was really lacking.

Listen. This is not a kind review. I read the first book and hated it. I would've been incredibly happy to leave it in the past, but the description was about Hamlet. I had to read it, even if I knew that I'd hate it. I did hate it, and it really wasn't similar enough to Hamlet for me to be even a little gracious.

I just simply did not enjoy this book. And it was far too long, which gave me a lot of time to ruminate on all its flaws. It may not have been the worst book I've ever read, but with an irritating main character, shallow political messaging that overpowered the already-weak plot, and a personality that doesn't know what its trying to be, there were very few things about this book that helped redeem it for me.

I wasn't the biggest fan of the writing of this book, though I did like it overall. The author is clearly competent and knowledgeable about how to write a mystery, and I did enjoy the concept.

This book was a terrible reading experience. Everything about it was annoying, confusing, and so bewildering that I couldn't even find my footing enough to pretend to care.

I had read Worst Case Scenario by this author last year, and I really liked it. I saw that Newman's debut novel was available from the library and figured it would be a quick, tense, and safe read while I'm in a little bit of a slump. Unfortunately, this one did not match up to the quality of the other one. For the most part, the actual experience reading it was just fine. But the glaring plot issues and the weak characters made this book a less-than-stellar experience.

This book was originally published in 2009, and unfortunately, for everything I enjoyed about it, there was another slur spoken that drew me out of it. And I get it: it was a different time.

I knew from the cover of this book that it was probably not going to be my thing, but because it's about "Hamlet," I decided to give it a shot anyway. I thought that perhaps it could be fun in an "early 2000s teen movie" kind of way. What I got instead was a lazy, reductive version of this play that talks down to its readers and shows a blatant disregard for the things that make the original so loved.

This book wasn't good. Had I not won it in a Goodreads giveaway, I probably would've stopped reading it.

Looks can be deceiving, and in keeping with the tradition of Shakespearean tragedies, this book starts off in a rough spot and gets worse.

This book taught me a very valuable lesson about picking books to read just because there's a dramatic flower bouquet on the cover.

Congratulations, McEwan. You've written the first retelling of Hamlet that even I couldn't find it in myself to like.

Where to begin with this book. I wasn't sold from the very beginning, and it went downhill from there.

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