Ink & Lies

by S L Jennings

[Cocktails and Books]

This review was originally posted on Cocktails and Books

This was one of those books that made you laugh out loud and then a few pages later a little teary-eyed. S. L. Jennings never disappoints me when I pick up one of her books. This one threw me for a bit of a loop (because the POV wasn't what I was expecting), but I absolutely loved this book. I loved August. His quirkiness, his inability to see what's right in front of his face, his need to fight his feelings while kicking and screaming and also being man enough to figure out that when you need to make the ultimate big gesture to the woman he loves, he use one of the things she always loved about him....his words.

August and Fiona have been best friends since college. And while Fi has been off looking for her Prince Charming, August has been using her quest for love and his manwhorish ways to create a romance persona that gives him a somewhat creative outlet for his writing while he figures out how to be August. And despite the many times August tips the scales towards the douchebag side, it's still hard not to love him or understand why it is Fi stays faithful to him. At the same time, you had to wonder how a man who is terrified of relationships couldn't quite realize that what he had with his best friend was exactly what he was fighting. Of course, August shows readers exactly why it took him so long to figure his shit out the last quarter of the book. It was heartbreaking, but it was truly a journey August needed to travel to understand what he needed was right in front of him.

INK & LIES is going to be a book I will tell people about when I'm asked what my favorite book is. August, despite his actions, is a man with an unbelievably huge heart, who's fun, loyal and able to make women swoon with creative, off the cuff prose. If you haven't read S. L. Jennings before, this book is an absolute must. And for those that have, it's a story different from the others and one that will stay with you.