The Opportunist (Love Me with Lies, #1) in The Indie Bookshelf

May 14, 2012 Jenny - TotallybookedBlog rated it it was amazing

I was originally going to give this book 4 stars after finishing it last night but seeing that it's totally consumed my thoughts and I've been discussing it since then, I've bumped it up to 5 because of the effect it's had on me.

First off I'll issue a warning! DO NOT read this book before going to sleep! You won't be able to put it down and if you finish it you won't be able to stop thinking about it. I should know...I'm functioning on 3 hours sleep because of it!

I was discussing it with a frien ...more

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Jun 16, 2012 Hazel Anne ~Javier Bernal~Kingsley Edge~Dex Foray~ rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: personal-favorites, all-consuming-series, want-to-possess-the-physical-copy, couldnt-shake-it-off-my-system, cover-attraction, pimped-the-shit-out-of-it, i-worship-at-their-shrine, endings-that-haunt-me-to-this-day, read-more-than-once, not-stable-enough-to-talk-about-it

Nothing has prepared me for this kind of emotional and mental mess. Wow just WOW. Did I really just read that? It's been 12 hours but I'm still digesting those last few chapters which had me bawling for all eternity!

“You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away." And then he left.

As if the devastation wasn't enough. How dare this writer put me in a glass case of emotions! I even fought the urge to literally smash my reading device ...more

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May 19, 2012 Karen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: romance-college, favorites, adult-romance, ugly-crying, angsty

I usually don't write reviews because it is too hard for me to put into words everything I love about the book and even worse is to describe if and why I didn't like it. That said, I feel I must write a review on this book. I don't want to give away too much but I will leave it at this: I stayed up until 3:00am and could not put this book down. I was hooked from the very beginning. The minute the book was over, I was beyond blown away. The last line of the book had me sobbing. I feel speechless ...more

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Jun 14, 2012 Luisa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 2012-reads, british-book-boyfriends

Emotionally distraught doesn't even begin to describe my emotions. This book has made me feel so alive! I can't even wrap around my head with all what I'm feeling... the hate, the love, the anger, pettiness... murderous feelings! UGH, just everything combined makes me feel psychotic!

When a book brings all those emotions in you, you can't deny that your world has changed. I want to recommend this book to everybody but I don't know if I can. I feel selfish for not wanting to share this book but I ...more

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Aug 24, 2012 Mindy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

I thought Sea of Tranquility was the most emotionally draining book I'd ever read. But this either ties it or surpasses it. I'm so upside down and backwards and inside out I can't even describe it to you. I can't think straight when it comes to this book. I read it about two weeks ago and I'm still thinking about it. The longest book hangover I've had since The Hunger Games. Tarryn was able to write so brilliantly that she made me so invested in the characters. They've gotten under my skin. I wi ...more

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Jun 11, 2012 Splage marked it as consider

Might be like Avoiding Commitment, not sure my heart or emotions can take another one of those for awhile. Definitely need to consider this one.

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Jul 12, 2013 Lizzie rated it it was amazing

omgggggg fue tan waaaaaaaaaa D:
hace mucho que un libro no me atrapaba de esta manera, tengo un mix de sentimientos encontrados. Primero que nada ODIO a Leah ¬¬ Segundo Caleb es awwww tan cute al inicio del libro pero despues terminó por estresarme aunque aún asi me encantó. Tercero waa Olivia, pff esta chica es una verdadera oportunista, te provoca darle una buena zarandeada para que reaccione pero a la vez le dices "ve por el chica quitaselo a esa bitch!"

Realmente un libro genial aunque me de ...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Charlotte Kelly rated it really liked it

I can not review this book right now, as I am too pissed off. I hated it and loved it at the same time. Totally jacking with my mind right now!

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Apr 09, 2013 Laura rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites

"He was my crack. I could never get enough, and when I had him I was already thinking about when I could have him next."

Brings ya right in, huh?

Olivia is all kinds of evil. She's crazy....but she's the crazy we can ALL relate to in some way. You know this from the get go, yet, despite all the evil, you can't help but love her. She does what she does because she can't help herself.

Caleb Drake...well, i'll let you form your own opinion of Caleb. ;)

This book had me laughing, cussing, crying and s ...more

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Jul 30, 2012 Lydia Laceby rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-star-must-read

Originally reviewed at Novel Escapes

The Opportunist has every ingredient for a gut wrenching, scream inducing, roller coaster ride of a novel. It’s obsessive, dark, and greedy – both the novel itself, and how it makes you read. I snatched this one up any time I had a few seconds, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, how much I loved it, yet hated it, and I could feel my eyes growing narrow and shifty after every page. The Opportunist marries a psychological thriller with a love story and will kee
Originally reviewed at Novel Escapes

The Opportunist has every ingredient for a gut wrenching, scream inducing, roller coaster ride of a novel. It’s obsessive, dark, and greedy – both the novel itself, and how it makes you read. I snatched this one up any time I had a few seconds, I couldn’t stop thinking about it, how much I loved it, yet hated it, and I could feel my eyes growing narrow and shifty after every page. The Opportunist marries a psychological thriller with a love story and will keep you guessing until the very last sentence. It will make you feel every possible emotion and remain in your brain long after you flip the last page.

The sense of foreboding that Fisher created in this novel is phenomenal. From the very first page you get a sense something terrible is going to happen between these people. My mind zipped and zoomed all over the place with possibilities. The tension between Olivia and Caleb was palpable and was probably the most intense relationship I have ever read in a novel. I really didn’t expect I would be into Olivia. She’s jealous, possessive, manipulative and self destructive, and so completely unlike me that I could not relate directly in any way. But somehow I tore through pages, desperate to see what she would do next and what she had done in the past. It was like gawking at a train wreck. I think anyone can relate on some level to their love, heartbreak and being so consumed with each other as love often is. Fisher does a fabulous job at making Olivia human, creating reasons for her flaws and making her likeable to some extent, even if you can’t love her.

I can’t get over the ease at which I got sucked into Olivia’s life and how urgently I needed to flip pages to find out what would happen. The Opportunist was unlike many of the novels I read, which are, more or less, cheery and lighter. They usually do not have a protagonist that is so dark and obsessive. They do not have a leading man I can’t decide if I love or loathe. These kids hurt each other, tear their lives and hearts apart, move on and do it all over again. I hated their decisions and what they do to each other from even the smallest things. But there was a romance to them, some tender moments, and I couldn't help but root for Olivia to get over her insecurities and for Caleb to be patient with her. And then I would flip the page and think - oh, no, no, no - they need to get away from each other, now.

Somehow I predicted one of the things to occur, but I was looking for it. That didn’t stop my enjoyment in any way. There were multiple unpredictable events and almost every page surprised me with something. One thing that did surprise me was the writing. It was incredibly easy to read, held no frills and there were multiple ‘rules’ broken if you look at it from the writing ‘handbook’ but it all worked and it was still a smashing read. But then again, rules are meant to be broken right? And I thought it fit really well with Olivia’s personality, her age, her tone and her rule smashing ways.

The Opportunist is hands down one the best self-published books I have read so far and may very well make my Top 5 reads of the year. Oh, just go out and get it already.

Thank you to myself for buying this one. All opinions are my own.
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Dec 26, 2012 Angela rated it it was amazing

In my 2012 top 5! Evoked many different emotions and could not put it down. Loved.

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May 15, 2012 Erica Alyson rated it it was amazing

Shelves: all-time-favorite-books, favorite-series-book-1

Wonderful book! One of my favorites. Loved Olivia and Caleb. Wished it ended differently but I understand why it needed to end the way it did. Can't wait for the next but I HATE Leah! ...more

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Jun 25, 2013 Cindy rated it really liked it

Shelves: steamy, read-in-2013, contemporary, sassy-heroines

Like telenovella crazytown bits of awesomeness. These people are all insane and make stupid mistakes and are just wrong. But you can't stop reading.

The prose is brilliant and the plot wacked, but seriously, these people... Wow.

Totally enthralling. ...more

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Nov 05, 2016 Ellen W-S rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2016

Real characters with real flaws! Loved it!

Life is messy, people make bad choices, with this story you read the good, bad and the ugly along with triumph and pain. Well done!

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