#nine liars

[inspiredbyabook]

lit meme: series or books [3/10] ↝ the truly devious series by maureen johnson

↳ look! a riddle! time for fun!

#truly devious #maureen johnson #the vanishing stair #the hand on the wall #the box in the woods #nine liars #yalitedit #litedit #lit meme #bookedit #yabookedit #booksihedit #litblr #booklr #books #reading #bookish #bibliophile #mine #my edits #gif set #gifs

[nineliars]

I love when people complain about stevie being an unlikable protagonist. I actually think she should get even more unlikable. she should start throwing her shoes at people. she should start calling people mean names when they piss her off. she should be allowed to fire an absolutely life-altering, devastating insult at somebody at least once per book. she should be allowed to call david’s mom and snitch on him every time he does something really stupid. she should’ve gotten to call Charles an annoying serial killer to his face. she should’ve cut the brakes in Carson’s tesla or wrecked his podcast footage. stevie bell is unlikable and i hope they make her even worse. i think somebody should give her a gun

#i’m just saying if i was stevie i would have lost my shit on Somebody by now #she kinda loses her temper at Germaine a little bit in the beginning of hotw but it’s not enough #i think in the next book she should have a mental breakdown and Gone Girl everybody but then nobody’s around to solve it #so they just don’t find her and she has to come back on her own #chelsea rants #stevie bell #truly devious #box in the woods #nine liars

[gryffindorloser]

y'know maureen keeps telling me that janelle is stevie's best friend but keeps showing me it's nate. don't get me wrong, i ADORE janelle and she's an absolutely incredible friend, but nate is stevie's bestie, hands DOWN

#Just finished nine liars and having many thoughts #truly devious #nate fisher #stevie bell #Janelle Franklin #Vi harper-tomo #David eastman #nine liars #maureen johnson #The box in the woods #The hand on the wall #The vanishing stair

[niallhoranhasthat1thing]

Nate is the best character in this series

#truly devious #nine liars #books

[celestial-academia]

I will never forgive Maureen Johnson for calling David Stevie’s Watson. The same David who is missing for half of the Hand of the Wall and half of the Box in the Woods.

Nathaniel Fisher was not Stevie’s secret keeper, lookout, closest confidant, and did not get SHOT AT for David “Barely Present” Eastman to be Stephanie Bell’s Watson.

#dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #chaotic academia #academia #bookblr #books #reading #book #truly devious #the vanishing stair #the hand on the wall #the box in the woods #nine liars #maureen johnson #stevie bell #Nate fisher #David Eastman #janelle franklin

[imamirrorballlll]

This is a David Eastman hate club.

#truly devious #stevie bell #the vanishing stair #the hand on the wall #the box in the woods #nine liars #maureen johnson #nate fisher #Janelle Franklin #david eastman #he is NOTHING to me

[viaviainternet]

basically the second half of the vanishing stair summed up for you

#truly devious #stevie bell #david eastman #ellie walker #janelle franklin #nate fisher #nine liars #maureen johnson

[aspeccharactersoftheday]

Nate Fisher from Truly Devious is asexual!

#nate fisher #truly devious #nine liars #canon aspec #asexual #submitted by temistheranger

[alchemyenjoyer]

im currently reading nine liars by maureen johnson and uhgggg i hate when david appears i really wish i could just skip ALL the parts he is in without losing important things.

david and stevie are such a bad pairing i hate his personality so much and only continue to read the series because i love janelle, stevie and nate trio 😭

#nate fisher #stevie bell #truly devious #janelle franklin #david eastman #nine liars

[coffeeinthebackpack]

Does anyone have similar book recommendations to 'Truly Devious' by Maureen Johnson?

I love that series with my whole being and I want books with similar themes/characters/plots?

#truly devious #the hand on the wall #the vanishing stair #the box in the woods #nine liars #maureen johnson #ya mystery #bookblr #mystery thriller #mystery books #cozy mystery #boarding school mystery #stevie bell #david eastman #nate fisher

[izzielizzie]

“she couldn’t even remember being a stevie without a nate” !!!

#EXCUSE ME??? #they mean so much to me #and to each other #nine liars #nine liars spoilers #stevie bell #nate fisher #ALSO #ace representation my beloved

[nineliars]

Im actually so freaking late bc I just finished mine liars BUT I’m so upset with David rn. I actually love him sm but I hate him. What is he? Im happy he and Stevie didn’t actually have sex bc if he broke up with her after that and just left ?? I would have been more sad for her. I understand he was overthinking but also kissing someone else? ?.!!./ outta pocket David 🙄

You’re so real for all of this. He is such a problem in this book. I love him but I’d also love to watch him slip on a banana peel into a dumpster or something.

Would it be crazy if I said that if they’d had sex, I don’t think David would have broken up with her? I’m not saying that because David is a horny scumbag who would’ve only stayed with her because they had sex, but I think from David’s POV, Stevie doesn’t love him as much as he loves her. (Whether that’s actually true is debatable, but unlikely imo given her reaction to being dumped.) Think about how Izzy first reacted to Stevie, like she was meeting a celebrity- because David had spent the last 3 months talking her up. In Stevie’s narration, she constantly frets about being perceived as intelligent, capable, and worthy. In David’s eyes, Stevie is all of those things already. I think David sees himself as a fuckup still, albeit one who managed to get his shit together long enough to spend a semester at Cambridge. He doesn’t know where he’s going next. (Neither does Stevie, but as she fails to realize, you get a little leeway when you solve the crime of the century twice.) David cuts off his nose to spite his dad, and even though it still shakes out alright for him, his future is even more uncertain than Stevie’s.

But Stevie isn’t perfect. She breaks down when she realizes she cannot solve the Nine Liars case in time to leave England. She can be utterly single-minded when it comes to solving the case, and the majority of the time, the breakdown in communication between her and David stems from her words/actions/missteps.

David clearly believes he is not worthy of Stevie and I don’t think he would’ve broken up with her unless he believed that she believed it too. Maybe if they had slept together, that aspect of their dynamic could have been a little more resolved– but maybe if she hadn’t been broken up with, Stevie wouldn’t have stayed behind in England in order to actually solve the case, which could’ve driven another wedge in between them. (Also, David snapping at Stevie before breaking up with her and saying “not everything is about you” makes me sooo sad because it’s another misread of what she’s feeling/thinking. I think Stevie felt really, genuinely guilty and upset when she thought she couldn’t solve Rosie & Noel’s OR Angela’s murders. The fact that Angela had disappeared immediately after talking to Stevie probably felt like Ellie all over again. David may have noticed this if he stopped being insecure for 5 minutes and thought about what was actually going on with Stevie. But I DIGRESS because this is getting way too long.)

As for kissing someone else I think his reasoning there was so simple actually: He feels as though he has fucked up all the things in his life worth trying for; Ergo, why not become a fuckup again? Drown your sorrows in tequila and kiss somebody you don’t know! All the kids are doing it!

I did not mean for this to turn into a dissertation on the dynamics of Steviedavid’s Nine Liars arc. I just can’t wait to see where they both go from here, because they are both kind of fucked up in the head, and they know that, and I think that will keep drawing them together as long as they’re in each others proximity. Good thing Stevie is returning home to America, where David won’t be…until, you know, his semester ends and he has to go home ;)

#truly devious #nine liars #nine liars spoilers #stevie bell #david eastman #anon #chelsea answers #steviedavid

[the-horologist]

stevie nate queerplatonic partners confirmed, thank you maureen johnson for this gift

#i was so scared of him coming out being used to sideline their relationship but instead they declared their commitment to each other #aroace nate the wonder you are #truly devious #nine liars #stevie bell #nate fisher

[skyward-ventus]

nine liars: you wanna care about david so bad~

me: i’ve only had sebastian for a day and a half but if anything happened to him, i would kill everyone in this room and then myself.

#truly devious #I DO NOT CARE ABOUT DAVID #but i do seemingly care about the gay british viscount who turned his life around #nine liars #nine liars spoilers

[celestial-academia]

I’m doing my yearly reread of Truly Devious and came to this part. It makes me laugh a little, but also is this quirk of Nate’s ever fully explain?

He just has a box of parts and junk and is like “I collect things” without any further explanation?

#dark academia #light academia #aesthetic #academia #bookblr #books #reading #book #truly devious #the vanishing stair #the hand on the wall #the box in the woods #nine liars #Nate fisher #janelle franklin #Stevie bell

[callum-hunt-is-bisexual]

being a truly devious fan is falling in love with a new set of characters every book knowing the book is centered around how their life either ended or went to shit

#i love the nine sm #i do this to myself every time #the original trilogy it was easier not to #i still did #but i just love to bitw and nine liars victims too muxh💔 #truly devious #nine liars #maureen johnson