This Lie Will Kill You

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The author wanted me to believe that a this group of highly intelligent whip-smart teens fell for weak lies and a flimsy promise of scholarship money if they attend this event. There's a lot going on in this book, from various character connections to the unveiling of the true events of that fateful night, but it lends itself to the story. It had all the tropes (I really did cross-reference against a list of YA conventions that came up on my personalised news feed!

Niamh has never left her home country of Ireland and so she has high hopes when she moves to London for a summer of drama school. Also, it gets very boring as you get closer to the middle and doesn’t even pick up until the last like 30 pages.I really had to sit with this book for a few minutes after I had finishing reading to decide what I was going to rate it. But, there is a lot of dramatic scenes and dramatic lines, so if you love that, then you can go for this book.

But there is a middle range, where correctly guessing the who, but the surrounding events of the reveal are still a surprise; and it’s always fun. Another instance is when they see a porcelain doll and go on and on and on saying how it looked human and they could almost see it moving and it gave them such a feeling as going back in time and getting lost and OMG PLEASE it really was so anticlimactic and made the whole book, which was supposed to be eerie, very boring. Juniper immediately dismisses the invitation as a scam, but her mother doesn’t think so, and wants Juniper to go along. Except they're actually there to relive the night of the murder and their roles within it to find out exactly what happened and who was the one ultimately responsible.The book starts with a beautifully written prologue on the night of the fire, but although it tries to be vague, it provides enough information that I knew who was behind everything after reading about three lines from their perspective. But the others do nothing for ages, as the focus is not on them and I believe the author forgot they were there and could have helped.

You know what's coming at every turn, the shock factor isn't quite there, but you want to know what happens next anyway. I think it works as a teen novel and while it lacks some of the smarter suspense of adult mysteries, I still enjoyed it and can see younger readers getting caught up in it.There’s no final perspective from him, no opportunity to show his grief/desperation/remorse…nothing to remind the reader that there’s a helpless boy trapped in a building, fully conscious and about to die in a fire.