Lying About Last Summer

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It also uses flashbacks to conjure up some powerful imagery, which will act as one of my most abiding memories of the book.

Lying About Last Summer is simultaneously a carefully plotted page-turning thriller with a suitably dramatic, and largely unexpected, climax. Paralysed by shock and crippled with fear, Skye hears her sister’s final moments but has kept this detail to herself and is tormented by guilt about failing to protect her sister.Happy ending or not, I was still slightly disappointed that the explanations at the end felt rushed. Disappointed that I had to struggle through 200 pages to get to a good bit but it was a very good bit. In short, Lying About Last Summer is street smart YA for the 12-16 age bracket who are intuitive enough to read between the lines, able to appreciate the excellent character development but demand the thrill of the chase and a rousing denouement! There is mystery surrounding Luisa's death, the messages in the private chat and some of Skye's fellow campers, and when everything started to come together into its exploding conclusion I was on the edge of my seat.

Overall, I rate it 3 stars, probably because I liked the plot but the execution for me was a little off. E Lockhart paints a vivid portrait of the Sinclair family, spinning an addictive tale of first love, friendship and family that teens will find impossible to put down.This makes me sad because I really did get into it and enjoyed the first portion, I wanted more from it and it unfortunately didn't deliver. What I found to be interesting here is how very different Skye was and how much had changed since her sister passed on. Young Adult book was set in a mental ward that the main character's dad owned, and she lived there with her parents. This year, 15-year-old Leah and the other two teens discover that the house has a dark past: a deathbed confession led the police to the buried body of a teenage girl earlier in the year, who had gone missing 50 years before.

From love stories to dark comedy, we think teenagers will love digging into this list over the break. A few people do seem a little off, as if the tragedies they've endured in their young lives has had a much more twisted impact on them than it did on Sky. A quick read that's enjoyable enough, I just feel like there's so much out there that's similar, none of it was new or surprising. This YA debut is a moving account of overcoming grief, and also a gripping psychological thriller as Skye tries to find out who is behind the texts. Could all of her concerns stem from an overactive imagination or is there something more ominous underway at Morley and who, if any, of her campmates can she really trust.Skye quickly makes friends with her campmates and throws herself into all of the activities set by the camp, but then she starts receiving text messages from her dead sister and she starts to realise that maybe someone on the camp cannot be trusted and to find out the truth she has to think back and face the truth of what happened last summer.

Supposed to be Skye’s opportunity to gain ‘closure’ she sees it more as an escape route from being hassled by her overcompensating parents and a grateful distraction from the memory of Luisa’s death.

Although they are covered sensitively, if any of these things are likely to trigger a negative reaction, then it may be a good idea to skip this book. There were some good descriptions here and there, but generally I found it hard to visualise as one central location.