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Georges becomes Safer's first spy recruit. His assignment? Nofar is an average teenage girl -- so average, in fact, that. Leonard Howell's worst nightmare has come true: his daughter Caroline has been kidnapped. To the police, it looks like suicide, or a stunt gone wrong. Her estranged daughter, Remmi, knows the.

Detective Helen Grace has never seen such destruction. Six fires in twenty-four hours. Two people dead. Several more injured. She's a bit pMicah is a liar. That's the one thing she won't lie about.

Over the years, she's duped her classmates, her teachers, and even her parents. But when her boyfriend Zach dies under brutal circumstances, Micah sets out to tell the truth. Micah is a fascinating character and a strong protagonist who easily carries the story. She's frank and mature and a refreshing character after all the "good", no-swearing types who populate YA - there are many kinds of teenager, but I tend to think that the smart-mouthed, non-virginal ones get ignored: they certainly don't often get the limelight, when they definitely should.

Micah tells her story in bits, though, alternating between snatches of the past, details about her family, told in past tense, and what's happening "now", told in present tense. The tense changes enable you to switch readily, but the stop-and-start nature of her story-telling, the less-than-linear plot, does get a bit tiring.

It is cleverly constructed and structured, but the constantly-interrupted flow of the narration makes you feel like you're watching an hour-long ad break, or one of those modern music videos where they don't stay on a shot for longer than a second or two, making it hard to tell what you're even looking at.

Even though this structure and pacing works perfectly for the story and the way Micah reveals it, it sometimes makes it hard to really sink into it. At the end, it's left up to the reader to decide whether Micah's telling the truth. I'm a pretty gullible reader, to be honest, which is what made this story interesting for me - I would believe what she told me because it was her story, and I was just the recipient.

Whether I believe or not has no relevance on the story. So I choose to believe her, because I want to, and because it satisfies the story. If I choose not to believe her, then I wasted my time. Author 36 books 36k followers. I think my head just exploded.

No spoilers, but. So hold on to your brains when you finish this book. Katie babs. While reading Liar, the reader is deceived from the beginning right up to the end by the unreliable narrator. Because Micah Wilkins, a pathological liar is the protagonist in this story and everything is from her point of view, the questions arise if anything she tells the reader is truth or lies on top of more lies from a very sick and delusional girl. Liar is told in three parts.

We are introduced to the seventeen year old girl who lives with her parents and younger brother in a very cramped apartment in one of the boroughs of Manhattan. Micah attends a progressive school where the students can call their teachers by their first names. Micah decides to go along with it and is accepted as boy until she is finally found out. Because Micah tricks her classmates, she becomes an outcast.

She knows she is different from everyone else and her only joy is running in Central Park. Micah really excels at running. One day Zach comes across her at the park and they form a friendship where they jog after school.

Their friendship then turns into more. Micah loves what she has with Zach even though he ignores her at school and they keep their relationship under wraps. Micah is fine with this because no one would believe that she and Zach are so close anyway.

And then Zach is found dead, murdered, but no one knows how because there are so many rumors running about how he died. And some of the rumors say that Micah killed Zach. And why would he even care about Micah? He has a beautiful and popular girlfriend while Micah is loser and is known for stretching the truth. She has no idea why or how Zach was killed. Everyone is looking at her, assuming she knows something. Or does she? Micah is keeping a very deep dark secret, that if found out would destroy her.

She tells in great detail why she must keep this family secret under wraps because if it gets out, she is doomed. The first section of Liar is excellent. This is a thriller in the true sense of the word. When Micah announces the big reveal, as to who she is and why she lies, I felt like I was fooled and deceived and not in the way I was expecting. What I thought would continue to be a suspenseful who done it spins so out of control.

I believe that from meeting Zach and being with him, where he has accepted her, she found hope, the will to turn her back on this addiction she has. But now that he is gone, she has lost all reason. She has no real personality or way of life because of her lies and spinning tales. She is like a ghost, a poor soul who has no vision or path to take in her life.

The reason I have such issues with the way things turned out is that I have never read such a book where the narrator is so mixed up and topsy turvy in her thinking. All these movies work in such a way because the climax, the big surprise or twist ending is very masterful in its telling.

There is no AHA moment in Liar. My expectations with Liar were probably a bit too high and by the end I was a bit topsy turvy myself. At the end Micah is practically begging us to believe her outlandish lies.

Some of what she has told are probable truths, while others are utter and total fantasies. The feeling I was left with was a combination of shock and disgust for Micah. She is a pathetic and sad creature. I guess you can say Liar is a great study into the mind of a disturbing individual, but that is all. Her lies simply had no effect on me as the reader, except for rolling my eyes. Can someone please, please tell me what this story was about? Loved each and every part of this book.

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