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3.46 AVERAGE
Cute throwaway YA romance novel. Predictable as the tides, but a fun read for all that.
This book was not good at all. I don't think I am going to continue any more of Kody Keplinger's books. I found the main character awful, but not in a way thats fun to read or anything but she was just so selfish and so bad. I was very disappointed in this book
4 stars!
So this was a cute, fluffy YA read, which I definitely needed after a long 3 weeks of reading a bad book. It was a very quick read, kind of cliche at times (very often, to be honest) but the cliches worked in Keplinger's favour here. I didn't really appreciate the main character (Sonny) - she was just really problematic for me, she kind of redeemed herself but I feel like it took too long to happen, which is the only reason really that I've docked a star. Definitely loved seeing that cameo from Wesley Rush (the feels are returning).
All round a good read! :)
So this was a cute, fluffy YA read, which I definitely needed after a long 3 weeks of reading a bad book. It was a very quick read, kind of cliche at times (very often, to be honest) but the cliches worked in Keplinger's favour here. I didn't really appreciate the main character (Sonny) - she was just really problematic for me, she kind of redeemed herself but I feel like it took too long to happen, which is the only reason really that I've docked a star. Definitely loved seeing that cameo from Wesley Rush (the feels are returning).
All round a good read! :)
This one is a great book, made greater by the addition of a hero of color (!) and drop-ins from Wesley and Bianca (!!). Wesley solves all the world's problems, as usual. It's a great meditation on what to do when you've put yourself in an uncomfortable situation but yet you're the kind of person who eludes those situations instead of facing them head-on.
Actual rating: 4.5 stars
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Gillian (Writer of Wrongs) was so kind as to carry Lying Out Loud to Cancun so that I could borrow her ARC. A new Kody Keplinger book is always something to celebrate in my opinion, though I still haven’t read her middle grade, because middle grade doesn’t tend to be as shippy. Someday I will though. Lying Out Loud has a lot to live up to, but Kody once again brings the ship and the flaws and the humor and the pain.
Perhaps my favorite thing about Kody Keplinger books, ships aside, is that the main characters are all deliciously flawed. Her heroines and love interests are always deeply flawed, generally due to major parent issues. What teen doesn’t have some sort of issues because of how their parents brought them up? Even the most loving of parents instill some issues in their kids; I’ve seen them in everyone I know. Everyone has problems that they have to work through as they grow up.
Sonny has parent issues like whoa. Her dad’s been in prison almost all of her life, and she can’t even remember the last time that she saw him. Her mom kicked her out of the house, leaving her homeless and secretly living with her best friend Amy Rush. Ryder’s got major parent issues too, as his parents have recently separated, forcing him to leave everything and everyone he knows in D.C. to live with his mom in podunk Indiana. The Rush family forms a nice contrast. In The DUFF, the Rushes weren’t great parents, but they took the events of that book to heart and are now very present, caring parents.
More than relationship issues, Lying Out Loud is about family and friendship. Sonny may never have had a great relationship with her own parents, but she becomes a real part of the Rush family. Her first real Christmas was so touching and sweet. I’m very moved by families that are chosen rather than decided by the coincidences of birth, so this gave me a lot of feels.
The most important relationship of Lying Out Loud is the one between Sonny and her best friend Amy. Despite their many years of friendship, one that goes back so far they can’t recall how it began, Sonny lies to Amy just as much to everyone else. From the start, the reader knows that Sonny’s house of lies is going to collapse on her head. It’s nice that, though Sonny does some shitty things to Amy throughout the book, there are scenes that show how well they do get along and how much they do care about one another. They emerge from Lying Out Loud much stronger; even Amy is changed by the events, even if she was more peripheral.
All of this sounds very heavy, and I’ll admit a couple of times I was trying not to tear up in the hotel lobby, but Keplinger brings her trademark witty banter to play to keep the novel from being too dark. Though she delves into a lot of serious and painful issues, the book still feels delightfully fluffy, because Sonny’s hilarious and the characters are so vibrant and not mopey.
Then there’s the ship, which is this brilliant mixture of Cyrano de Bergerac and Pride and Prejudice. Ryder truly is a pretentious hipster snob. Sonny ends up getting to know him better by accidentally (initially) chatting with him on Amy’s email account. Their conversations are sassy and bantery and honest. There really is something incredibly freeing about conversing with people on the internet rather than face to face. Despite all the lies and the bullshit, Ryder and Sonny form a real, strong connection. They have essentially a Darcy and Elizabeth romance arc, only Darcy doesn’t have a Bingley and mistakenly thinks he’s into Jane for a while. Obviously I shipped it like whoa.
My only issues are exceedingly minor and nitpicky. I would have liked a bit more at the end of the book, of course. It’s a slim volume, only 294 pages in the ARC, and I will always want more time with Kody’s characters. Then there’s a tie-in to The DUFF movie. It’s completely meaningless to the plot otherwise, but Amy sees Madison at the mall and tells Sonny that Wesley used to date her before Bianca. Though it’s small, this bothers me, because Wesley didn’t actually date before Bianca, and he was very clear about that. Movie Wesley does, but the movie’s not the same thing. I don’t care for this retconning at all.
Lying Out Loud is every bit as good as Kody Keplinger’s previous novels. Kody continues to be one of my favorite authors. She never fails with the banter and the realistic characters that jump off the page.
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Gillian (Writer of Wrongs) was so kind as to carry Lying Out Loud to Cancun so that I could borrow her ARC. A new Kody Keplinger book is always something to celebrate in my opinion, though I still haven’t read her middle grade, because middle grade doesn’t tend to be as shippy. Someday I will though. Lying Out Loud has a lot to live up to, but Kody once again brings the ship and the flaws and the humor and the pain.
Perhaps my favorite thing about Kody Keplinger books, ships aside, is that the main characters are all deliciously flawed. Her heroines and love interests are always deeply flawed, generally due to major parent issues. What teen doesn’t have some sort of issues because of how their parents brought them up? Even the most loving of parents instill some issues in their kids; I’ve seen them in everyone I know. Everyone has problems that they have to work through as they grow up.
Sonny has parent issues like whoa. Her dad’s been in prison almost all of her life, and she can’t even remember the last time that she saw him. Her mom kicked her out of the house, leaving her homeless and secretly living with her best friend Amy Rush. Ryder’s got major parent issues too, as his parents have recently separated, forcing him to leave everything and everyone he knows in D.C. to live with his mom in podunk Indiana. The Rush family forms a nice contrast. In The DUFF, the Rushes weren’t great parents, but they took the events of that book to heart and are now very present, caring parents.
More than relationship issues, Lying Out Loud is about family and friendship. Sonny may never have had a great relationship with her own parents, but she becomes a real part of the Rush family. Her first real Christmas was so touching and sweet. I’m very moved by families that are chosen rather than decided by the coincidences of birth, so this gave me a lot of feels.
The most important relationship of Lying Out Loud is the one between Sonny and her best friend Amy. Despite their many years of friendship, one that goes back so far they can’t recall how it began, Sonny lies to Amy just as much to everyone else. From the start, the reader knows that Sonny’s house of lies is going to collapse on her head. It’s nice that, though Sonny does some shitty things to Amy throughout the book, there are scenes that show how well they do get along and how much they do care about one another. They emerge from Lying Out Loud much stronger; even Amy is changed by the events, even if she was more peripheral.
All of this sounds very heavy, and I’ll admit a couple of times I was trying not to tear up in the hotel lobby, but Keplinger brings her trademark witty banter to play to keep the novel from being too dark. Though she delves into a lot of serious and painful issues, the book still feels delightfully fluffy, because Sonny’s hilarious and the characters are so vibrant and not mopey.
Then there’s the ship, which is this brilliant mixture of Cyrano de Bergerac and Pride and Prejudice. Ryder truly is a pretentious hipster snob. Sonny ends up getting to know him better by accidentally (initially) chatting with him on Amy’s email account. Their conversations are sassy and bantery and honest. There really is something incredibly freeing about conversing with people on the internet rather than face to face. Despite all the lies and the bullshit, Ryder and Sonny form a real, strong connection. They have essentially a Darcy and Elizabeth romance arc, only Darcy doesn’t have a Bingley and mistakenly thinks he’s into Jane for a while. Obviously I shipped it like whoa.
My only issues are exceedingly minor and nitpicky. I would have liked a bit more at the end of the book, of course. It’s a slim volume, only 294 pages in the ARC, and I will always want more time with Kody’s characters. Then there’s a tie-in to The DUFF movie. It’s completely meaningless to the plot otherwise, but Amy sees Madison at the mall and tells Sonny that Wesley used to date her before Bianca. Though it’s small, this bothers me, because Wesley didn’t actually date before Bianca, and he was very clear about that. Movie Wesley does, but the movie’s not the same thing. I don’t care for this retconning at all.
Lying Out Loud is every bit as good as Kody Keplinger’s previous novels. Kody continues to be one of my favorite authors. She never fails with the banter and the realistic characters that jump off the page.
Literalmente LOL.
Sonny es el tipo de protagonista de la cual el género Young Adult carece. Puede que sea una mentirosa compulsiva pero la ame con todos sus defectos. Lastima que cayo por pretencioso hipster. Enserio, este chico Ryder no me gusto para nada. En genral estaba bien, Sonny estaba tan concentrada en este chico que dejaba de lado a su amiga, Amy, a quien ame tambien y sus problemas familiares.
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No entiendo por que Lying Out Loud, que es un nombre realmente malo para un libro, tiene que acompañar a The DUFF. Puede que Bianca y Sonny vayan a la misma escuela o algo así pero no tiene nada que ver. Podrian ser dos novelas separadas completamente sin importar la relacion.
Por ejemplo, tenemos Saving Franchesca y The Piper's Son de Melina Marchetta. The Piper's Son trata sobre uno de los personajes seundarios de Saving Franchesca, Thomas, unos años después de lo trascurrido durannte SF. Y las dos son novelas separadas, sin necesidad de leer una para leer la otra.
Though the main character did end up annoying me beyond belief, I made it to the end of this.
This was a perfectly fine romcom of a young adult book, but it didn't stand out to me at all. There were no moments where I felt terribly invested in the plot or where I felt any emotion other than mild amusement.
I spent the last third of the book skimming because it felt so dragged out. Sonny has a problem as a perpetual liar, and it takes her almost the entire book to finally come clean.
Ryder, the love interest, was extremely bland. His distinguishing features were him being a hipster and missing his old high school. Sonny enjoyed talking to him and confided things in him that she hadn't told other people, but I didn't really feel the chemistry.
Amy was just a pushover. People don't necessarily have to stay friends for their entire lives. They drift. Yet she wants Sonny sleeping in her room when there's a perfectly good guest room? And she doesn't catch Sonny on half her lies? She may be book smart, but she isn't street smart.
There were other details I didn't buy. She also mentioned having previously had a crush on Amy's older brother, but this doesn't get mentioned at all even in passing despite her spending time with him and his girlfriend. She lies to Amy about having done college applications. There's no way in hell this could have passed. Amy would have been spending HOURS on those essays and if they were applying to the same schools, they would totally have discussed the prompts or peer-edited or something. I didn't buy it.
This was at least a very quick read, as Sonny's voice kept the pacing very fast.
I think I would have enjoyed this one if the main characters hadn't frustrated me so much.
This was a perfectly fine romcom of a young adult book, but it didn't stand out to me at all. There were no moments where I felt terribly invested in the plot or where I felt any emotion other than mild amusement.
I spent the last third of the book skimming because it felt so dragged out. Sonny has a problem as a perpetual liar, and it takes her almost the entire book to finally come clean.
Ryder, the love interest, was extremely bland. His distinguishing features were him being a hipster and missing his old high school. Sonny enjoyed talking to him and confided things in him that she hadn't told other people, but I didn't really feel the chemistry.
Amy was just a pushover. People don't necessarily have to stay friends for their entire lives. They drift. Yet she wants Sonny sleeping in her room when there's a perfectly good guest room? And she doesn't catch Sonny on half her lies? She may be book smart, but she isn't street smart.
There were other details I didn't buy. She also mentioned having previously had a crush on Amy's older brother, but this doesn't get mentioned at all even in passing despite her spending time with him and his girlfriend. She lies to Amy about having done college applications. There's no way in hell this could have passed. Amy would have been spending HOURS on those essays and if they were applying to the same schools, they would totally have discussed the prompts or peer-edited or something. I didn't buy it.
This was at least a very quick read, as Sonny's voice kept the pacing very fast.
I think I would have enjoyed this one if the main characters hadn't frustrated me so much.
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Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
Voy a confesar que no le tenía mucha esperanza a Lying Out Loud, cuando se empezó a promocionar como parte de la serie The Duff pensé que Kody explotaría sus personajes ya conocidos. Pero no, Lying Out Loud se desarrolla al igual que sus otros libros que no tuvieron la publicidad de "parte de The Duff". Si has leído todos sus libros, sabrás que se desarrollan en el mismo escenario y aunque aparecen los personajes de los otros libros, solo lo hacen para dejarnos saber que están vivos.
CatFishing. Nunca entendí la expresión, porque en lo que pienso cuando alguien menciona esa palabra es a un gato sacando peces de una pecera y comérselos. Pero, lo que quiere decir la frase según urbandicitionary es que es coquetear con alguien online haciéndoles creer que tú eres otra persona. O sea, básicamente lo que hago con el blog jajaja Por algo la frase tiene gato en ella. Lying Out Loud es una especie de catfishing no intencionado, o un Cyrano de Bergerac a la inversa.
Esta vez la escritora no me hizo sentir incómoda. Sus libros tienden a ser un poquito agresivos en cuanto al sexo. No digo que los libros juveniles no deban tener sexo, no, eso sería absurdo, solo que si has leído Shut Out, se me hizo un poco demasiado exagerado y siendo ese casi el último libro que leí de Kody Keplinger, pensé que este sería mucho más explícito. Felizmente, para mí, no.
LOL (LYING OUT LOUD)
Esta historia me encantó, mi favorito de todos los libros de Kody hasta ahora.
Más que una historia de romance, es una historia de amistad entre Sonny y Amy. Es tan bonito porque antes que cualquier romance sin garantía, la amistad de estas dos chicas es lo más importante para ella, aunque haya tenido algunos resbalones por aquí y por allá. Amy es un personaje que tiende a caerme mal, pero Kody escribió la escribió tan bien, que no pude más que sentirme dolida cuando Sonny tiene que mentirle. Amy en el libro no tiene un gran protagonismo, pero se las arregla para aprender de ciertos errores que había estado permitiendo. Es cierto que puedes aprender de los errores de los demás también.
Me gustan muchos los romances que se desarrollan mediante cartas, email, mensajes de texto. Hay un lazo bastante psicológico en tratar a alguien mediante medio escrito en lugar de cara a cara. No sé si te ha pasado, pero hay personas que me agradan demasiado tan solo por su manera de escribir. El saber escoger las palabras es importante.
SONNY
La adoro. Es un personaje tan bien estructurado, me desesperó un poquito durante dos capítulos, pero fue mínimo. No es un personaje perfecto, como todos los personajes de Kody, pero tiene una personalidad tan magnética. Incluso el hipster snob de Ryder pudo resistirse. Sonny es sarcástica, divertida, no es realista pero trata de llevarlo lo mejor que puede. La con demasiada esperanza es Amy, en una manera adorable. Son un buen par estas dos chicas.
GUIÑOS A THE DUFF: LA PELÍCULA
Seh, hay una escena en Lying Out Loud que no entendí. Amy y Sonny van al centro comercial y se encuentran supuestamente con una ex-novia de Wesley, el problema es que no la recordaba, me tuvo pensando un buen rato. Y para colmo no vi la película por lo que no pude vincularlo. Hasta que leí un artículo donde me explicaban que esa escena era una manera de conectar la película del libro con el universo The Duff.
Solo que si como yo, no has visto la película, vas a terminar completamente confundido por unos minutos.
***
Lying Out Loud me ha encantado, me recordó muchas cosas en las que trato de no pensar jajaja y aún así me gustó bastante. Aunque quizá para algunos pueda tener un final demasiado abierto, a mí me pareció perfecto.
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Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
Voy a confesar que no le tenía mucha esperanza a Lying Out Loud, cuando se empezó a promocionar como parte de la serie The Duff pensé que Kody explotaría sus personajes ya conocidos. Pero no, Lying Out Loud se desarrolla al igual que sus otros libros que no tuvieron la publicidad de "parte de The Duff". Si has leído todos sus libros, sabrás que se desarrollan en el mismo escenario y aunque aparecen los personajes de los otros libros, solo lo hacen para dejarnos saber que están vivos.
CatFishing. Nunca entendí la expresión, porque en lo que pienso cuando alguien menciona esa palabra es a un gato sacando peces de una pecera y comérselos. Pero, lo que quiere decir la frase según urbandicitionary es que es coquetear con alguien online haciéndoles creer que tú eres otra persona. O sea, básicamente lo que hago con el blog jajaja Por algo la frase tiene gato en ella. Lying Out Loud es una especie de catfishing no intencionado, o un Cyrano de Bergerac a la inversa.
Esta vez la escritora no me hizo sentir incómoda. Sus libros tienden a ser un poquito agresivos en cuanto al sexo. No digo que los libros juveniles no deban tener sexo, no, eso sería absurdo, solo que si has leído Shut Out, se me hizo un poco demasiado exagerado y siendo ese casi el último libro que leí de Kody Keplinger, pensé que este sería mucho más explícito. Felizmente, para mí, no.
LOL (LYING OUT LOUD)
Esta historia me encantó, mi favorito de todos los libros de Kody hasta ahora.
Más que una historia de romance, es una historia de amistad entre Sonny y Amy. Es tan bonito porque antes que cualquier romance sin garantía, la amistad de estas dos chicas es lo más importante para ella, aunque haya tenido algunos resbalones por aquí y por allá. Amy es un personaje que tiende a caerme mal, pero Kody escribió la escribió tan bien, que no pude más que sentirme dolida cuando Sonny tiene que mentirle. Amy en el libro no tiene un gran protagonismo, pero se las arregla para aprender de ciertos errores que había estado permitiendo. Es cierto que puedes aprender de los errores de los demás también.
Me gustan muchos los romances que se desarrollan mediante cartas, email, mensajes de texto. Hay un lazo bastante psicológico en tratar a alguien mediante medio escrito en lugar de cara a cara. No sé si te ha pasado, pero hay personas que me agradan demasiado tan solo por su manera de escribir. El saber escoger las palabras es importante.
SONNY
La adoro. Es un personaje tan bien estructurado, me desesperó un poquito durante dos capítulos, pero fue mínimo. No es un personaje perfecto, como todos los personajes de Kody, pero tiene una personalidad tan magnética. Incluso el hipster snob de Ryder pudo resistirse. Sonny es sarcástica, divertida, no es realista pero trata de llevarlo lo mejor que puede. La con demasiada esperanza es Amy, en una manera adorable. Son un buen par estas dos chicas.
GUIÑOS A THE DUFF: LA PELÍCULA
Seh, hay una escena en Lying Out Loud que no entendí. Amy y Sonny van al centro comercial y se encuentran supuestamente con una ex-novia de Wesley, el problema es que no la recordaba, me tuvo pensando un buen rato. Y para colmo no vi la película por lo que no pude vincularlo. Hasta que leí un artículo donde me explicaban que esa escena era una manera de conectar la película del libro con el universo The Duff.
Solo que si como yo, no has visto la película, vas a terminar completamente confundido por unos minutos.
***
Lying Out Loud me ha encantado, me recordó muchas cosas en las que trato de no pensar jajaja y aún así me gustó bastante. Aunque quizá para algunos pueda tener un final demasiado abierto, a mí me pareció perfecto.
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I loved The Duff more, but this one was also cute and fun! Super addicting, but there were some parts about Sonny's character and her decisions that irked me--even though I wanted to root for her the whole time.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
Okay I'm the kind of person who likes likeable characters or if not likable relatable or intriguing if none of that is in the book a really interesting plot can save it
With this book you're not really supposed to like sonny, she's a liar plain and simple. She lies to her teachers, her boss, even her best friend, it's pretty much the plot of the book how her lies get her into lots of trouble. I found myself getting so, so frustrated at her as the book continued.
I wanted to throw my book across the room at points because her problems could be so easily fixed if she was honest, but she chooses not to be. I’ll admit some of her reasons for lying are understandable. Annoying but understandable
And the most annoying part she that the has literally the greatest friend in the history of the universe that she treats like poop, and is super mean to the main love interest, Ryder throughout the first third of the book for barley any reason at all
In the end I hated Sonny with a burning passion like truly despised her and it’s really hard to root for a person you hate so…
With this book you're not really supposed to like sonny, she's a liar plain and simple. She lies to her teachers, her boss, even her best friend, it's pretty much the plot of the book how her lies get her into lots of trouble. I found myself getting so, so frustrated at her as the book continued.
I wanted to throw my book across the room at points because her problems could be so easily fixed if she was honest, but she chooses not to be. I’ll admit some of her reasons for lying are understandable. Annoying but understandable
And the most annoying part she that the has literally the greatest friend in the history of the universe that she treats like poop, and is super mean to the main love interest, Ryder throughout the first third of the book for barley any reason at all
In the end I hated Sonny with a burning passion like truly despised her and it’s really hard to root for a person you hate so…