This book was quite underwhelming given what the synopsis promises. I thought that this could have been developed further and the story that we got felt unfinished with more interest being put into the verse format. If this book had been write in a standard prose style, it would've been better.

This just didn't turn out to be for me. I think that stories written in verse have the opportunity to come out really powerful, and this had the potential, but there wasn't enough time to familiarize yourself with the characters enough to become invested in what happened. The story wasn't bad and I think that if it had been a little longer with more time put into forming the characters (beyond their indiscretions), this would've been more up my alley. The girls had an interesting story to tell, but it almost felt like there just wasn't enough information about everyone and everything to get the full effect of said story.

Paige and her friends tell the subtle lies that are a part of daily life. White lies to avoid insulting friends. Fibs to escape unwanted judgment from classmates. Half-truths to evade their parents’ watchful eyes. But could their lies become dangerous? What happens when the lies become a matter of life and death?

This book is told in verse poetry to keep the pacing interesting. This book was rather short, I felt like this could have been a short story. This felt like too much of an Ellen Hopkins wannabe book and less of what it could have been.

The characters could have been more developed and had more of a personality. It lacked depth that most readers crave. It was rather predictable based on what else is on the market for the young adult genre.

I recommend this book be redeveloped into a longer piece and have a few twists to keep readers engaged. I was pretty disappointed by this. Luckily, it was short.

This one is my second verse book. I liked the idea of it. Only problem i have is this books are too short so i can't invest the story. Everything happened so fast and i loved to read behind of Paige's choises. But i enjoyed it.

I am quite obviously not the target audience for this book but I was intrigued by the blurb and really wanted to read it.
This is written entirely in verse but is very short.
Too short, in my opinion for the characters to have any real personality and didn’t appear to have much of a story and what it did have was sadly predictable.

Paige just started her Junior year in high school and leads the life of a "typical" teenager: she has her two best friends, on weekends they go to different parties to get drunk, and flirt with boys. In addition, she also has a love for poetry and records all her emotions in the form of free verse poems. These poems make up the story the reader holds in their hands.

This means that for the length of the book you are reading one free verse poem after another. Sadly, I felt that this was a bit tiring halfway through, each poem felt the same. It was as if there was nothing happening, nothing fresh or different. One way that could have been used to show Paige's character development would have been to change the style of the poems.

In addition, I may be a bit of a traditionalist but I am not convinced by the movement that using random line breaks in sentences counts as poetry. While this tool can be used to place empathy on certain words it feels rather arbitrary in "One Too Many Lies".

It was also very hard to connect with any of the characters. At first Paige always seems to be the same - rarely having more than one dimensions to her character: you know next to nothing about her family, you never learn what motivated her, and she seems pretty flat and stereotypical.

Then something happens that shifts her behaviour and thinking. However, the amount of time dedicated to this change is far less than it deserves. Not even a third of the book deals with her character development. This it seemed very sudden, and as a reader you are not able to follow it.

Overall, I must admit that "One Too Many Lies" by L.A. Bowen falls flat. I couldn't get into the story or the characters. Neither was the writing style appealing.

I have a special place in my heart for verse books. I love the creativity and uniqueness on them. I had high hopes for One Too Many Lies but it fell flat. The story was very clique and boring. There was no emotional connection to the characters thats makes these stories flow.

THANK YOU NETGALLEY AND THE PUBLISHER FOR THE COPY OF THIS BOOK. ALL THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS ARE MY OWN. 

This book was not for me. The book is written in verse. I felt this could have been written better with more of a story to it. The book was not going anywhere with the characters or nothing too exciting happens.

Paige is the girl writing as if she is in her journal. She writes down everything that is going on around her. She and her two best friends tell little white lies to people around them if it is about their age or where they are staying the night. 

The story is short and maybe could have been a bit longer so we could get more from the characters. But all in all, I almost DNF the book but kept going for hopes that it was going to get better with the plot but nothing came of it. 

I gave it 1/5 for the lack of character growth, not very detailed or scripted. The story of the girls and the white lies was just not very interesting or exciting for me.

Overall as a whole, I thought this story was okay, this was my first time reading a book in verse.
However I didn't feel like there was much too the story, like it was somewhat flat. For a short book, I couldn't really connect with the characters.

I'm not a fan of poetry. I read this book cause the synopsis and the cover. But it surprises me. I never read a book wrote like a poetry that likes a romance book, but in verses. I really like it. It's short (for me), but well wrote. I thought that it was like the book "One Of Us Is Lying", but it is about the choices Paige for her life. It's really really good.
More review about this book in my blog: https://t.co/zH7XGXlrGr

I was not expecting this to be in verse. It just looked messy on my kindle. I didn't know the point of the story.

This novel in verse could have been powerful, but there was not enough story to connect with the main characters. Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for the opportunity to be an early reader in exchange for my fair and honest review.

Overall I didn't mind this story. I liked the free verse poems it reminded me of books such as Cut and Glass. However this one didn't really have much of a story and I wish I connected with the main characters more. The whole thing seemed to just be one scene almost and I felt that it could have been more in depth. I also felt that the characters were a little on the flat side and I found the story very predictable. What little story that
there was was very expected. Not my favourite but I think that had mostly to do with the length.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest opinion. I am super disappointed in this book. I felt like it didn’t go anywhere. it was really uninteresting.