Liar

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• Liar

  Micah Wilkins lies automatically. She not only lies to family, classmates and police, she lies to the reader. Over and over. Right until the last page, you don’t know what’s true and what is n’t. Not even then. Micah was Zach’s outside-of-school girl ... (read full critics)

  januarymagazine published on Mon, 24 Oct 2011

• Book Review: Liar by Justine Larbalestier

  It starts with a promise: “My father is a liar and so am I. But I’m going to stop. I have to stop. I will tell you my story and I will tell it straight. No lies, no omissions. That’s my promise. This time I truly mean it.” Micah is the main character ... (read full critics)

  thebooksmugglers published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  an unusual twist.

  At times I really liked it but after a while all the lying made the story too hard to follow. You get to a point to where you just think the entire story is a load of bologna.
  I think I believed the ending? ;-)

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  Edgy and sophisticated

  This is the best YA book I have read since Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. Like LB Liar is not afraid to tackle "difficult" themes. There is (might be?) a "supernatural" element which I found inititally difficult to digest. Was this really necessary at all? I still don't know, but I sure like the re ... (continue)

  This is the best YA book I have read since Cory Doctorow's Little Brother. Like LB Liar is not afraid to tackle "difficult" themes. There is (might be?) a "supernatural" element which I found inititally difficult to digest. Was this really necessary at all? I still don't know, but I sure like the result: Liar is page-turner, yet deliciously ambiguous and complex. More so, in fact, than lots of "adult" genre lit.

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  Paolo said on Nov 26, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• Others 343 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1741758726
• ISBN-13: 9781741758726
• Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2009

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