No Filter and Other Lies, Crystal Maldonado
No Filter and Other Lies, Crystal Maldonado
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No Filter and Other Lies

Author: Crystal Maldonado

Narrator: Frankie Corzo

Unabridged: 10 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/08/2022


Synopsis

You should know, right now, that I’m a liar. 
 
They’re usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent.
           
But they’re still lies.

Twenty one-year-old Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and a glittering life filled with adventure. With tons of followers on Instagram, her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.              
 
Except it’s all fake.          
 
Max is actually 16-year-old Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic teenager living in drab Bakersfield, California. Nothing glamorous in her existence—just sprawl, bad house parties, a crap school year, and the awkwardness of dealing with her best friend Hari’s unrequited love. But while Kat’s life is far from perfect, she thrives as Max: doling out advice, sharing beautiful photos, networking with famous influencers, even making a real friend in a follower named Elena. The closer Elena and “Max” get—texting, Snapping, and even calling—the more Kat feels she has to keep up the façade.    
 
But when one of Max’s posts goes ultra-viral and gets back to the very person she’s been stealing photos from, her entire world – real and fake — comes crashing down around her. She has to figure out a way to get herself out of the huge web of lies she’s created without hurting the people she loves.   
 
But it might already be too late.

About Crystal Maldonado

Crystal Maldonado writes inclusive stories about fat brown girls. By day, Crystal works in higher education marketing, and by night, she writes young adult novels like Fat Chance, Charlie Vega and No Filter and Other Lies. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. Camp Sylvania: Moon Madness is her middle grade debut. Visit her online at crystalwrote.com.


Reviews

I think that I'm going to enjoy whatever Crystal Maldonado releases at this point. Her storytelling and character development is always on point. I read her debut last year and enjoyed it. I'm happy to say that it was the same experience for this book. No Filter and Other Lies is messy. Extremely mes......more

Goodreads review by Mariah

oof the crying came out of goddamn nowhere......more

what an experience. Halfway through reading this book it was going to be 3 stars at BEST but idk the more I read the more I just loved it. it had all my favorite things, a messy main character, moral ambiguity, good side characters, toxic mother daughter relationships and lying. it wasn't until I fi......more

This book was so difficult to read for me because Kat does some truly awful things throughout the novel. She was more than a mess with her lies and deceptions. I did like that Crystal set-up consequences to those actions, which, in a world lacking accountability, was very good to see. She also allow......more