Review: 3-3.5 out of 5 Stars
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2014
This is my second book by K.A. Tucker and while I absolutely loved Ten Tiny Breaths, I had high expectations towards One Tiny Lie, but this book didn't nail it completely in my opinion.One Tiny Lie is about Livie Cleary, straight-A student, very mature for her age, unintentional virgin and now Princeton freshman. Livie is the perfect combination of rational and emotional: she always wants to do what's best, and she's also a "fixer", a kind of good samaritan who'd rather help others than help herself.Except she doesn't see what her sister sees - perhaps that path she had imagined for herself is not the one that suits her best. With the help of her former shrink Dr. Stayner, Kacey wants Livie to understand that sometimes life is about trial and error, and that you will always regret things you've never tried.And soon enough, Livie gets herself in trouble and wakes up with naked Ashton in her dorm room. Nothing happened between the two of them, but Livie soon finds out that Ashton is actually Princeton's perfect manwhore. She thus makes the rational choice of taking it slow with Connor, who is the picture-perfect guy she should be going out with. And while she has to admit to herself that she is still somehow attracted to Ashton, he keeps on pushing her away. That is until she finds out his secret and is set on helping him...Again, we have the same similar as in On Dublin Street (which Ten Tiny Breaths also felt similarities to). Livie is just like Ellie in Until Fountain Bridge (On Dublin Street's sequel) - she's the fixer who doesn't care about herself anymore until she fixes the person she is set on fixing. This similarity is okay, but I felt like from then on, Livie's actions didn't stick to her personality anymore.All of a sudden, she falls for the manwhore? The guy that seemed so disgusting to her to begin with! And her grades drop whereas she used to be a straight-A student? She totally looses it and does things she never zould have done in the first part if this series.Sure, it's college, and you are meant to do some soul-searching, and you might even think about boys a lot as a girl, but this felt like a but too much. After all, Livie remained perfectly mature when her parents died and she had to take care of her depressive sister... And I didn't find Ashton's story believable. (view spoiler)But anyway, the writing remains just as good as in the first book, the characters still as endearing, funny and charming (although their actions can be questioned sometimes), so if you can look away from the storyline and humour it, it's actually a good read.But hey, I was still missing a few steamy scenes, so don't count on that either!