Liar: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

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The major characters are pretty strong - Micah, Zack, Sarah, even Brandon, though I felt the minor characters to be insubstantial.

Liar: A gripping psychological thriller with a shocking twist

But the very success of the unreliable narrator means that I, for one, didn't get what I usually think I want from a book. It irks me that there are likely people reading this review thinking, 'I'd better not give this to my teenage daughter. From what I already know about the phenomenon, the lies may not be entirely convoluted and fantastical. Orwell wrote that “myths that are believed in tend to become true”, and that fascist abuses of power have a way of becoming outright abuses of reality. Drunken nightmare … George Segal, Richard Burton (holding the rifle) and Elizabeth Taylor in the film of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?The only honest thing Micah will ever tell anyone is that she’s a compulsive liar, and she is—a very skilled one. Even though this structure and pacing works perfectly for the story and the way Micah reveals it, it sometimes makes it hard to really sink into it.

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i would be reading along and suddenly she'd say, "oh yeah, well the last few pages didn't actually happen, i made that up. Our world is built and sustained on empires of information; lies, truth, perception, opinion, some useful, some damaging, some inspiring, some manipulating; how can we understand which is which, and what is real and for what purpose we’re being presented with them? Part three is “The Actual Truth” where Micah confesses about what she had or didn’t have with Zach and why he may have died. Two stage magicians become obsessed with each other at the turn of the century in London and do terrible things to each other, themselves and reality in general. What will either draw in or irritate readers is the complete and total unreliability of Micah as a narrator.The reason I have such issues with the way things turned out is that I have never read such a book where the narrator is so mixed up and topsy turvy in her thinking. And you literally NEVER know whether in three pages time, she's going to backtrack on everything she's just said. The book starts out like any other YA with life in high school and everyday living but right off the bat we discover Micah's 'boyfriend's' brutal death which shakes the school.