Luna and the Lie

This was a disappointing read. There was a significant amount of filler that could have been edited out, at least 50 pages worth; especially considering the poor resolution we got with Luna's sisters and the rest of her family. It's all very surface-level and unsatisfactory. The only reason I kept reading is because I love a good-girl heroine who's a glutton for pain, felt like a maschocist myself reading all the times she cried. I certainly cried.

Did the main couple redeem the book? To a certain extent. I liked Ripley but he suffered the same injustice as Luna not getting a fully fleshed-out backstory. I liked that he was rough and gruff but why was he rough and gruff? Nothing truly got explained about his past or family. The relationship between the two was the sweet pull that kept me captive, as all suckers for slow burn will say.