Rating: Title & Author: This Lie Will Kill You by Chelsea Pitcher. Title found at these libraries: |Loading... |. I'm sorry but I just found myself disliking each and every one of the characters.
She'd taken a class on gun safety after her father disappeared and her mother got paranoid about men kidnapping her daughters. I mean, they just burned a guy alive without the blink of an eye (still he was a pig so I am glad he perished), but show no trauma from the hell of a night they spent. This Lie Will Kill You is also pretty diverse. The house they were all trapped in was grear. Had someone spiked Gavin's drink? This book is an okay read for me. Shelved as 'dnf'August 12, 2020. dnf @40%. This is just bad writing. No, she needed to be cold, like an unfeeling doll. Full review can be found here: I knew nothing about this other than it was a murder mystery that promised to have great twists and turns Well, I'm still waiting for all of that to happen because they sure were not in this book. One of the first things that struck me about this book, which when I first noticed it was bizarrely funny, was that the cast of characters was almost identical to the cast in other YA books I had read previously. But let's talk positives first.
Later when we find out Shane has a sister, my first initial thought was that she was the "killer. " Shane Ferrick - mysterious newcomer, he's basically Edward from "Twilight". Decorated the house including like 10 identical paintings with minor differences (did she commission them?? And so the gun had rested, hidden in the darkness and collecting dust, more a symbol than a weapon. The story jumps between flashback and reality and between different characters without really specifying. It's not a real deep mystery either and you basically know where the book is headed from the beginning. Five arrived, but not all can leave.
Do yourself a favor, hard pass on this book. But maybe they just meant it is reminiscent of the second and third season of Riverdale: sucky and completely bonkers. The writing was very bad. 🌼 Audiobook Production: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. What it's about: one year after a boy died in an inferno at a party, five students connected to his death are invited to participate in a murder mystery evening to win a $50, 000 scholarship.
The book is also let down by the fact that the dead student, the reason for all of this, doesn't really feel like a real person. It is mostly descriptions about Ruby's heart - how her heart feels, what her heart is made of and, my personal favorite, hopes that her heart would "soften to red". Like this is why I think there is some sort of disconnection between the events that are going on. It had good plot twists, but I've known better ones.
The location and the premise really shine with a murder mystery-style scholarship party happening at an old abandoned mansion. By Laura on 04-08-19. 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. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see - confident, beautiful, indifferent. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Please don't get me wrong, this book is dark and twisty and blends genres seamlessly, but it is a plot that has been done before and there is nothing truly unique about this novel. And it's about to get worse.
And he stays unconscious for a lot of it, only showing up every so often. Her sisters started to fuss, and Ruby's mother sighed, already sinking under the weight of responsibility. Chelsea Pitcher deserves that credit. The victim: a new student in town who didn't respect the high school's social hierarchy.