This Lie Will Kill You

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There was not a single realistic thing, from events to dialogues to inner thoughts. I paid it just 99p but it was 99p wasted. 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.

When looking for a mystery- thriller to read, what has always really counted are the feelings that it can evoke.There are people who board up their windows when they hear a storm is coming, and there are people who race out the front door.” There’s a good mystery at the heart of This Lie Will Kill You and I was able to push my questions about the set-up to one side and watch with interest as the events that led up to the first death in the woods gradually became clear. The only question became how many deaths would follow… As the story progresses, there are some frightening incidents which are beautifully described. The author uses many devices to increase the tension; a seance at a party, shadowy figures hiding in the dark. The scene in which Niamh is in a deserted underground station and hears the sound of metal scraping on metal behind her is extremely atmospheric. In another incident, Niamh is trapped in the basement of a library, and the author brilliantly describes Niamh's panic and desperation as she tries to escape.

I thought that the characters were written beautifully and had that three dimensional element of feeling real to me. I loved Ruby. I thought she was so enthralling as a character, she was by far my favourite. I know.” Juniper glanced at his empty chair. After fifteen years of teaching music at Fallen Oaks Elementary, a recent round of budget cuts had left Mr. Torres jobless. Now Juniper could hear him milling around upstairs, choosing the perfect tie for another set of dehumanizing interviews. It’s so hard to write a spoiler-free review for this book, because I want to share everything I felt while reading it. Niamh was a character I really liked, and she was very easy to relate to as well. I went in for a YA thriller and I got a supernatural horror that kept me on my toes. The story is told in the third person from each character’s point of view, switching between them which took a little getting used to. 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...They’d probably mailed two by mistake, she thought, rolling her eyes. But as she drew the envelope from the darkness, an undertow of guilt started tugging at her limbs. This was how it always happened. She’d be going about her day, not even thinking about Dahlia Kane’s Christmas party, and out of nowhere, her limbs would get heavy. She’d feel herself sinking, the way a body sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool, while people stand by, laughing— Juniper slammed her bedroom door, leaning against it. She knew she was overreacting, but she didn’t know how to stop it. It was like being in one of those dreams where you are yourself, and see yourself from outside your body. Like being God and Jesus at the same time. The writing was very bad. But just the second half, because it was filled with the ugliest, most absurd and incomprehensible metaphors, which I swear made me want to carve my eyes out and smash my Kindle. 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. A grain of sand in a land of pyramids and gods. All you have to do is wait for the wind, and he'll blow away.”

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. You climb to the roof with a pitchfork in your hands. You summon the lightning. You chase the storm.” “See, that’s where you’re wrong, Juniper. I don’t chase the storm. I am the storm. I am a goddess in a land of pyramids and sand, and if I want, I can make all this blow away with the wind.” Except this book is neither of those things. Even if you stripped "Clue" of its brilliant mystery and memorable characters, "This Lie Will Kill You" wouldn't even come close. I had zero clue what was going on. Characters were underdeveloped and the plot was weak. I hope to have my review up soon. When the phrase, "The struggle is real" was created, I have a feeling they had this book in mind (they just didn't realize it yet).

Haha, thanks! Yeah, Parker was terrible. I think that I was extra disappointed with this book because I was super excited for the premise and it just didn’t deliver. Now, they realize they’ve been lured together by a person bent on revenge, a person who will stop at nothing to uncover what actually happened on that deadly night, one year ago. You climb to the roof with a pitchfork in your hands. You summon the lightning. You chase the storm.” I feel that this is an author who is taking the first steps on what promises to be a very successful career.