Liar, etc.
September 04, 2009
The other day I finished Liar, by my friend Justine Larbalestier. I have loved JL's other books, in particular the witty, exuberant and utterly imaginative How to Ditch Your Fairy -- and Liar is SPECTACULAR. Amazing plot twists.
It's all about this girl, Micah, whose boyfriend has disappeared. Or been murdered.
But was he really her boyfriend?
And was she really where she says she was that night?
Nothing is stable in the story, because Micah is a liar. On a grand scale.
Only: she promises to tell us, the readers, the truth. About why she lies, and what the story is.
THen when she tells you the truth: you can't believe it. But is that because she's lying? Or has she become a liar because her truth is so hard to understand?
Read it, read it.
Now I am reading an early copy of Ally Carter's Heist Society. Nana nana boo boo.