#stevie bell

[canary-warrior]

Watched Totally Killer yesterday and you cannot convince me that Jamie and Amelia aren't Stevie and Janelle

A blonde girl who is determined to find a murderer and her genius best friend who is smart enough to invent time travel??? It's literally them in another universe

#truly devious #maureen johnson #totally killer #Jamie Hughes #Amelia Creston #stevie bell #janelle franklin #and kiernan is one of the fancasts i've seen for stevie too #it fits so well #also my pics were way clearer tumblr ruined the quality :( #janelle WOULD invent time travel for stevie #and stevie would lure a killer away from janelle and tell her to run #anyways everyone go watch totally killer

[viaviainternet]

can we agree that

truly devious: the last great american dynasty

a good girls guide to murder: no body, no crime

#truly devious #a good girls guide to murder #stevie bell #pippa fitz amobi

[sogonolo]

“The moose is a lie” (:<

decided to draw a truly devious comic page because why not?

#truly devious #stevie bell #fan art #fanart #art #maureen johnson

[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

[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

[justablujay]

The way that i would sell my soul to be able to go to a boarding school for free and study what i’m interested in. My dream life

#truly devious #stevie bell #nate fisher #boarding school #introvert #true crume #books and reading #reading #booklr #Ellingham academy #dark acadamia aesthetic #literature #mystery

[goodgrammaritan]

"It's been a long week," Nate said. "Don't leave again. Don't leave me with these people."

"Which people?"

"Any people."

"I don't count as people?"

"Of course not," he said. "It's been all feelings and love. I want to go back to numbness and avoidance. You're great at that stuff."

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

#maureen johnson #the vanishing stair #truly devious #nate fisher #stevie bell

[rewritingcanon]

idk if anyone even reads truly devious but nate and lysander are literally the same person

#arent u nathaniel b #nate my fav character bcuz hes dry as hell #loving reading the minerva kids dynamics in this book bcuz they remind me of the hp nextgen 2008-2009ers kids #david is lorcan. stevie is hugo. janelle is my oc adeline #im waiting for my lily luna to show up but lowkey shes a mix of janelle and stevie #truly devious #nate fisher #the vanishing stair #stevie bell #hpng #harry potter #hp #hpcc #cursed child #ccsquad #lysander scamander #hp nextgen #hugo granger weasley #rewriting #does this count as- #lorgo

[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

[pipsbriberymuffins]

i just need to read a study in charlotte to complete the holy trinity of ya crime

#a good girls guide to murder #truly devious #a study in charlotte #agggtm #books #book blog #stevie bell #pippa fitz amobi #charlotte holmes

[coffeeinthebackpack]

David being subtly jealous is one of my favourite things in the Truly Devious books!

Homeboy came running as soon as he saw his girl dancing with someone else😭

#truly devious #the vanishing stair #the hands on the wall #maureen johnson #stevie bell #david eastman #mystery books #cozy mystery #ya mystery #bookblr #boarding school mystery

[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

[slowmotionlovepotionn]

istg pippa fitz-amobi from a good girl's guide to murder and stevie bell from truly devious would be besties

i can just imagine them sipping black coffee while listening to true crime podcasts and doing their things solving crimes

#agggtm #a good girls guide to murder #pippa fitz amobi #stevie bell #truly devious

[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

[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