I am still trying to get a handle on how I feel after reading this book. You know it's a great book when it stays with you and you can't get it out of your head. This is one of those books.I've had this book on my TBR for a very long time and I just hadn't ever gotten around to it until now. I saw rave reviews from friends and a part of me was worried that it wouldn't live up to the hype. Now, I'm kicking myself for not reading this book sooner! It has blown me away!I don't want to give too much...

"From approximately twelve hours of knowing you, I have decided that I will never forget you, even if we never speak another word to each other. You leave a very strong impression. I can only imagine how that poor bastard feels after so many years of keeping company with you." 3.5 stars. That one quote sums up Olivia in a nutshell. Btw...I really liked Noah, the guy who stated the above. It's too bad we didn't meet him until the end of the book. He was quite lovely.This book is not ab

It started with a post from one of my readers on Facebook talking about Caleb and Olivia. I thought they were talking about my book so I checked it out, NOPE, they were discussing a different Caleb and Olivia. I had to investigate.THEN, Tarryn and I were both invited to be a part of the 2012 TFEiC Author Meet & Greet in Chicago. We struck up a conversation and it was effortless. We decided to do a buddy read of one another's books.The more I read, The Opportunist, the more I thought: "This b***h...

One of the most addicting books I've read! Be prepared, you will not be able to put this down! I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart. After reading a review of The Opportunist a while back I had planned on staying far away from this story. It sounded like drama and frustration, and I have little patience for either. But after my trusted friend Arlene badgered encouraged me to r...

"You can only give your heart away once; after that, everything else will chase your first love." ~ Love.Lies. More love.More lies. This book was AMAZING and UNPUTDOWNABLE but after finishing it I just felt emotionally EXHAUSTED. From the moment I started reading The Opportunist, it sucked me right in. I was unable to put it down and thank God I was on vacation so I was able to finish it in one day. The Opportunist is a story about love mixed with heartbreak and deceit. It is

I finished your book this morning, after having started it last night... I had to FORCE myself to STOP reading and go to bed. And even then, I was pissed that I slept when I could have been finishing this story.This story HURTS. H-U-R-T-S. I'm still hurting. Tomorrow, i'll probably still be hurting. I'm sort of a jumbled mess of thoughts and emotions and even though I know what I FEEL about this book, i'm not sure how to actually SAY it. This book is manipulative. The main character is a bitch.

'You can only give your heart away once; after that, everything else will chase your first love.'Wow, what to say about this book? I absolutely loved this book and also hated it at times. Olivia was flawed and made many mistakes, there were times I just wanted to scream at her, yet I still really liked her and rooted for her. Caleb Drake... from the very first time i met him in the book I instantly loved him! I didn't understand certain decisions he made (ending of book wtf?) but nonetheless thi...

What a beautiful, broken mess. The Opportunist was both a breath of fresh air and a sucker punch to the gut. 5+ stars!!I loved every single word and yet few books have ever made me so incredibly frustrated. It was a phenomenally well-crafted, multilayered story about complex, flawed characters. It owned me. It made me want to scream and cry. It made me feel. It was devastating, heart-breaking and yet utterly addictive. It was honestly one of the best books I have ever read. It grabbed a hold of

Reader Beware this book will leave you screaming "OH HELL NO"5 STARS out of 5Genre- Adult Contemporary RomanceSetting- Miami, Fl., Georgia, and Texas-Part one: Spoiler Free-'You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love'. - Inner thoughts of Olivia in The OpportunistThe Opportunist will penetrate the recesses of your being. All due to CHOICES The Opportunist is a book about choices- good ones, bad ones, small ones and big ones. Everything in our l...

This review is about all 3 books in the series. Do not read these books as a stand-alone. They must be read in order.*********************************************This series is something else. They will (pardon my language but) f*ck with your mind! You will constantly be thrown away at the walls of an invisible torture room. You will be made to feel and think something about someone. Love, hate, anger, pity, sorrow, whatever... Then, you will be forced to change all these feelings and thoughts w...

2.5 StarsWARNING UNPOPULAR OPINION TIMEAnother one that just does not live up to the hype.*Contains hidden spoilers but some minor ones are not hidden*The Opportunist is the first book in the Love Me With Lies series, this one written in the first person from the female MC Olivia’s point of view. She tells the story of how she met her College love and how she lost him, only to meet up with him a few years later.Well, what to say about this book, really? Not much. I didn’t absolutely hate it,...

Author Interview http://toughcriticbookreviews.blogspo...EFFITY, EFF, EFF!!! This review came so extremely close to me just shouty capitalizing the word EFF!! Think of every single emotion you could possibly ever feel and then imagine feeling them all at once!! All at once!!! EVERY. SINGLE. EFFING. ONE. Hell, this entire review could be written in shouty capitals!!This book metamorphosed my entire existence! More than twenty-four hours post reading this life altering book and I'm still thinking

Find all of my reviews at: http://52bookminimum.blogspot.com/ “Can I be your favorite girl?”“You already are, Duchess.” Dear Tarryn Fisher: It doesn’t have to be a snowman. Really, it doesn’t. We can just sit around and you can remind me that there are people who are even more f*&^ed up than I am while I braid your hair.WARNING: If you like your romance fluffy with a HEA you best get to steppin’. However, if you are like me and like your “romance” with a twist of obsession and zero squicky

Wow! I needed a minute to collect my thoughts after this one. This book was recommended to me by a friend that said—-you have to read this so we can talk about it! I glanced over the reviews, and after seeing a sea of shouty capitals and exclamation points, I thought, she’s right, I need to read this!I am so glad I did!First off, the descriptive turn of phrases in this book made me smile. Every other paragraph had something in it that made me take notice. Even the hard parts were a joy to read—-...

★★★★★! Love Me With Lies, book 1 of 3! The epic and very dysfunctional love saga of Caleb & Olivia taking you on a roller-coaster of emotions! “He will remember eventually and this whole charade will come crashing down around me like a bad game of Jenga. Until then, I have him back and I am going to hold onto that for as long as I can.” The Love Me With Lies series is Caleb Drake’s and Olivia Kaspen’s whirlwind saga spanning over a decade filled with love, joy, angst, a

My nostrils are still emitting remnants of smoke from my seething anger at the characters of this book. Sure, Ms. Fisher intended a story about flawed characters specifically about a ruthlessly manipulative woman named Olivia who would do anything for the love of her life; the playing womanizing “amnesia” diagnosed Caleb. But again, which character isn’t flawed. Aren’t they all are? But the things Olivia did to feed her whims are too heartless, too mean to even fit her supposedly blemished chara...

"Are you a bad person, Olivia?""Yes," I say easily. This book was almost impossible to rate. My mind literally feels like it has been torn in half over this book - and particularly torn in half over my opinion of the main character. There are a number of things you should probably know.1) The writing. The writing in The Opportunist is a cut above many of the other New Adult books I've read. It's compulsively readable and extremely entertaining, to the point where I fi

Dgfsethuyfawguijasdf.That epilogue almost broke me.So... I liked this book, but not as much as everyone else (?). I think I read it a little too late? This would've worked PERFECTLY for me back in 2012, when I was really into this kind of stories. But nevertheless, it was GOOD!I really liked Olivia. And I really liked Caleb, although (view spoiler)[I KNEW FROM THE BEGINNING THAT HE WAS LYING! I knew he didn't lose his memory! And I wasn't spoiled, I just KNEW. I felt very smug when the big revel...

A story of love, deceit and obsession. A girl so consumed with one man, she will do everything in her power to keep him.Toxic. A word that sums up, Olivia and Caleb's relationship. They're story is addictive, frustrating but utterly unputdownable!!!Olivia is a broken girl hiding behind a tough facade. When she meets Caleb, it's blown to pieces. But she pushes him away, because she's learnt that letting someone into your heart can lead to pain, because when they eventually leave, you're left alon...

4.5 Stars!When three of my GR friends were so emotionally drained after reading this book and couldn't rate it, or couldn't even review right away, I had to get to the bottom of it...immediately! I dropped everything and even "put-on-hold" a decent book I was already reading to find out. Boy, did I ever.Alfred Hitchcock would have had a field day with this little psychological thriller, let me tell you! The camera angles alone would easily have been one of the main characters in his movie adapta...