I didn't love Ten Tiny Breaths, but this book changed my mind and the entire series! It captured my attention, broke my heart, and made me love the characters.

DNF

While book one did work for me surprisingly well, despite problematic aspects, I can't handle this one. The fact that Kacey and the therapist are forcing Livie to get drunk is several bridges too far for me, and I don't think it fits with Kacey's development in book one at all. The whole thing makes me uncomfortable, and I'm not convinced any skilled, well-respected therapist would encourage this. Drinking a little bit to overcome a fear, sure, but to get super drunk at a party with people you don't know? No.

I absolutely fell in love with Ten Tiny Breaths so I was really looking forward to reading Livie's story in this book! There was a stage where I was actually going to take a break from this book after a few chapters as I felt that it wasn't living up to my expectations from the first book, but I sat down one night and read the rest of it in one sitting! I got to a stage in the book where I fell in love with it! It started to blow me away! The plot of this book was broken, but beautiful! There were these two characters who had both been through so much, but together they help mend each other and show each other that they are both amazing characters! I found the plot a little slow to start off with, but eventually it sped up and I couldn't get through it fast enough! It just kept getting better and better and I found myself memorised by it! The characters also just blew me away! Livie was the main character and after seeing her in Ten Tiny Breaths I was dying to read her story! I loved her in this book! She did something that I frown upon, but I admired her that much that I could see past it! I think she was quite a witty character and at times she was very strong! Ashton was one of the love interests of Livie and he really surprised me! I thought that he was going to be a complete douche to Livie, but he was actually perfect for her! I thought that he helped Livie so much and at the same time Livie was helping him! He had been through a lot and I felt so sorry for him so I loved that Livie was the one to save him! There was a love triangle in this book between Livie, Ashton and Connor! I was expecting a love triangle as the synopsis tells you that before you start reading! I really enjoyed this love triangle! I didn't think that I was going to enjoy it as much as I did! I was Team Ashton, but I respected Connor so much that at certain points of the book I was stuck between choosing which side I was on! I also loved that characters from the first book were in this book and my favourites were in it as well! I'm not sure if there is going to be another book to this series as Livie and Kacey have both had their stories told, but if there is another book then I will definitely be reading it! Ten Tiny Breaths and now, One Tiny Lie have both been absolutely amazing books! The cover for this book is beautiful! It represents the book brilliantly and I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it! I also didn't realise how well the title suited this book until after I read it! It suits is so much more than I realised! Big thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of One Tiny Lie!

I did not read the first book, Ten Tiny Things, so that may have affected my enjoyment of One Tiny Lie. Plus, we have trouble selling young adult books at our store, I think the market for these books is mostly online.

This author does write compelling characters with romantic plots full of crazy drama. I liked this book and I was glad to see a spin-off of the first in the series. However, I just didn't connect as much with the MC and I didn't root for the romance as much as I hoped.

This is the third book in a series, and the only one I've read so far. Livie is just starting college, at Princeton, the school that her father wanted her and her sister to attend, just like he had. When she was eleven, her parents died in a car crash, one that badly injured her older sister Kacey. Kacey has struggled to recover, and even though Livie seems to be doing well, getting great marks and doing everything according to a long-set-out plan, Kacey is worried about her. So Livie agreed earlier in the summer to talk to someone and she's been shaking her life up a bit.
Now, as Kacey sees her off to school, she finds herself talked into an off campus party, where she lets loose a lot more than she ever has, beginning with Jello shots. The next morning she finds herself with a new nickname, an incomplete memory of the previous evening, and a sore back. As she gradually remembers the events of the evening over the school term, she settles into a pattern of partying, studying, and questioning her own feelings, and finds herself drawn to a young man that she knows is trouble.
This is a story of coming of age, but also one of coming to terms with the past, not only for Livie, but for other characters as well. Her relationship with her sister is a strong one, but this is the first time she's really been making decisions that are hers alone.
Despite the American setting, the author is Canadian. This series will definitely appear to the adult reader ready to move on from teen fiction.

One Tiny Lie, the companion novel to Ten Tiny Breaths, follows Livie as she makes her way to New Jersey for her freshman year at Princeton. It is there that she meets her hard partying roommate Reagan and at her very first college party she meets captain of the rowing team Ashton. Ashton is all sorts of wrong for Livie; from the stream of women going in and out of his bedroom to the black out drinking episodes ending with tattoos on a dare, Ashton is trouble. But when Livie begins to date Connor, Ashton’s best friend, roommate, and rowing teammate, Livie finds that there may be more to the broken Ashton after all; if she could just find out what secrets he is burying so deeply. One Tiny Lie is a five star read from cover to cover. While I have not had the opportunity to read the first book in the series, I found that it did not detract at all from my enjoyment of this book, I felt the author gave plenty of background information while not being redundant for those that may have already read it. One of my favorites of the year thus far!