This Lie Will Kill You

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I read ThisLieWillKillYou allinoneday, and that’s both a compliment and a problem. On the one hand, I kept reading until I finished. On the other, I did that because the story felt so light that I kind of just wanted to get it over with.

It's a familiar theme, very I Know What You Did Last Summer meets Pretty Little Liars, but the author owns it, runs with it, and throws it into the air as dark confetti as the reader watches this mystery unfold with their eyes. Junebug, she’s my kid.” Her mother disappeared into the hallway, and Juniper followed close behind, plotting to retrieve the invitation. “Believe it or not, I like spending time with my kids.”

And so it went. Juniper raced to the mailbox on Monday morning, then Tuesday. By Wednesday, her confidence had started to ebb. Why was she so convinced she’d be getting an acceptance letter? Yes, her grades were mostly stellar, but last winter, after that party up in the hills . . . What do you do when you go for a summer course and find out people are dying left and right… and they all look similarly to you? At other times, the voice sounded as though the teenagers themselves were narrating - we followed their thoughts, and there were expletives used as modifiers. An example is the insertion of the phrase 'nope, that wouldn't do' into the narration, which is vastly different in tone from the lyrical, poetic prologue. The characters have reasons for doing what they did (even though I think they were very stupid) and we get to see how some of them became what they became, what happened and all that… that should’ve make us understand them and get to know them, right? So wrong, the characters are cardboards.

It’s basically like a point horror book for modern readers and that might sound dismissive, but it’s honestly the highest praise I could give it and I LOVED IT! Sweet Valley Thrillers and Point Horror were my gateway drugs into reading adult books as my aunty saw me reading them & then gave me some of her Stephen King & James Herbert (and James Patterson) books to read aged 11/12 and that was it, I was hooked. I never stopped reading “kids books”, I just added adult books in and I think that’s why I still enjoy any age fiction nowadays. Plot twists, surprises, tension and a story that kept me gripped! So much so, that I finished it in a night which is an achievement all on its own as I’m a slow reader.

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She raced from her room. Down the hallway she went, past her baby sister’s nursery, and the bedroom where her parents slept, their limbs entwined like the branches of neighboring trees. Soon the family would wake, and she wouldn’t be able to scour the mailbox in secret. But if she was very quiet (avoiding this floorboard, and that creaky step), she could slip outside without anyone noticing. I thought this was quite good, especially as the idea of porcelain was used as a motif throughout, symbolising emotional detachment. But although narration of this style kept cropping up, it wasn't constant. She sank down to her bed. When her phone lit up again, she was surprised to feel her heart leap. How could she still have hope after everything that had happened? Her heart was a bruised and bludgeoned thing. A Pandora’s box filled with grief and regret. But somewhere, hidden in the darkness, hope was glittering. It caused her breath to falter as she read Ruby’s text. Trigger Warning: This book features child abuse: domestic violence; an abusive relationship: controlling, manipulating, gaslighting and stalking; bullying, violence, discussion of suicide, and suicide ideation. Many thanks to NetGalley and Random House Children’s/Delacorte Press for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange for my honest opinions.

We’ve all seen this idea done a million times but what matters is what is done with those archetypes to make them more complex, to make them more compelling. Junebug!” Mrs. Torres appeared in the doorway, her face flushed from standing over the stove. “Breakfast, mi amor. What is that?” Much like Riverdale, the story is exaggerated in a way that makes some parts completely unrealistic, but that doesn’t bother me as it is a fiction book.This was good. This is the kind of book I would love to see Netflix adapt into a series. It's enigmatic, thrilling, enjoyable and detailed. I can’t even properly put my finger on what exactly I disliked about this! The storyline was basically all over the place, I couldn’t care less about any of the characters, everything felt so unbelievably unrealistic, it was totally obvious who the bad guy was, the writing at the start was beautiful and lyrical but went downhill pretty fast... I’ll be trying my hand at a book review today that will let you in on my thoughts without spoiling it for anyone in case you fancy reading it. So no spoilers today.

The Ringmaster & Dollface revealed. So I was absolutely correct in guessing that Shane’s sister was behind the party. That was a given. But I never could’ve guessed that Ruby was the Ringmaster. I had my suspicions about her being involved but that was immediately done with when it was revealed that Parker was working with Brianna (Dollface/Shane’s sister). Although it centres around the one event, a lie that has been covered up, the story progresses through all of them sharing their part in it and uncovering the truth. This Lie Will Kill You Synopsis The friendship with Jess, the family closeness and the love interest scenes were a wonderful addition to the suspense we get, like breathing a bit of fresh air as well. I loved it when scenes made me giggle or give me the butterflies. It was very light as well, which helped break the scary moments and make you believe everything was good, before another plot twist happened. The players: five students. Columbia-bound ex-valedictorian Juniper, stage-loving Ruby, golden boy Parker, school bully Brett, and outcast photographer Gavin.

The author wanted me to believe that a this group of highly intelligent whip-smart teens fell for weak lies and a flimsy promise of scholarship money if they attend this event. That was all it took to get them together in a creepy house where a murder/death takes place and everyone had a specific role to play as a participant. Could one of them be the murderer? It was obvious the author tired way too hard to make this a complex who-dun-it but it was not complex, it was just confusing. Everything was over-complicated to the point of being uninteresting. I often zoned out and my thoughts drifted to what else I could be reading instead of this weak attempt at a thriller. The author really knows how to divert expectations and build up the twists that come at the end of the novel. There are two major twists that come at the end of the novel. Both of which I was NOT expecting and for that I am grateful. Every mystery novel needs an unexpected twist. In the beginning, I thought the author immediately gave away who the “killer” (no one dies except one character) was by describing a girl watching Shane’s body burning and then planning the party. Later when we find out Shane has a sister, my first initial thought was that she was the “killer.” And I was correct. Except that she wasn’t the one watching and that brings me to number 2.