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Cover of Duped. A person's hand is shown holding a pink rose.

“Being duped contaminates your entire sense of self.”

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin

July 28, 2026 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

For full disclosure (which feels extra important when discussing a book about deception) I did not finish this book. I made it to the halfway point and realized that the structure of the book wasn’t working for me, and I didn’t want to pick it back up. So, I didn’t.   Now, with that in mind, the reason I believe I felt that way was the way Abby Ellin blended the personal narrative of her lived experience being engaged to a con man with the research about deception through double lives and false identities was not landing for me. I would imagine that Ellin hoped by keeping her own […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: abby ellin, cbr18bingo, duped, justice

faintingviolet's CBR18 Review No:18 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: abby ellin, cbr18bingo, duped, justice ·
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When he casually fails to mention his other fiancée

Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellin

February 9, 2019 by yesknopemaybe 4 Comments

In college, I lived in one of those big houses that had a million roommates. There were always people moving in and out and while I was close with many of my roommates, others stayed for just a short while and we never got to know them very well. One of these was a woman who was a compulsive liar. She told small lies and big lies, so many lies that it hardly seemed she even noticed she was telling lies. It was like she […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: #memoir, abby ellin, duped, non fiction

yesknopemaybe's CBR11 Review No:16 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: #memoir, abby ellin, duped, non fiction ·
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