Lying About Last Summer

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The plot at times felt somewhat insubstantial, but as it developed, it became clear that this would be a coming of age story, of how Skye uses her inner bravery to overcome her trauma. Then she begins to receive texts from someone pretending to be her dead sister - and decides no one can be trusted.

However the ending was so rushed, and you was sat there wondering why you'd spent so long reading this for it to come to that ending in literally 5 pages. This book explores a very wide range of themes, which are extremely prominent throughout, and act as an effective series of underlying messages within the overall plot. Disappointed that I had to struggle through 200 pages to get to a good bit but it was a very good bit. In the end it didn't really matter after all who sent the messages, it was more about coming to terms with the loss of a sibling than anything truly murderous or scary. The book’s central mystery was resolved much earlier than I was expecting, and instead giving way to an ending that was more dramatic and tense.It’s, therefore, not surprising that she welcomes the opportunity to escape – even if it is on a holiday for bereaved teens.

When Skye starts receiving text messages from someone pretending to be her dead sister, she knows it’s time to confront the past. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It added a bit of extra chill factor to the book, and that's the only bit of the story I didn't guess - who was behind those messages. Lying About Last Summer is the debut YA psychological thriller by former journalist Sue Wallman and was selected for the Zoella Book Club in autumn 2016. I really felt what she was feeling in every moment whether that be dealing with her feelings of guilt, grief or trying to move on with her life.In a narrative which doesn’t ever get close to being preachy the teenager cast speak in the believable lazy text-speak of today and the novel can be read and throughly enjoyed as a simple thriller without any of the deeper concepts getting in the way of a character driven story. 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. However, one year later, she is sent to a camp for kids who have had lost someone close to them: someone they miss. The supporting characters are equally believable and three dimensional, each with a detailed backstory that explains their behaviour and attitudes.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It has been said and often quoted that “No parent should have to bury a child…”, however and following the same line of thoughts, no child should have to bury a sibling, and in teenager Skye’s situation she’s had to suffer that fate with a whole lot of guilt. With it based in a camp for teenagers grieving it caused the setting of the book to really intrigue me as i havent read anything like that before. And while this book does have a thriller/mystery element to it, what this book does really well is explore grief.

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. It's hard finding good teenage chick-lit to fill the summer months as most of them are about some middle-class ditz falling in love with a boy from the wrong family and are about as edgy as a satsuma. It is original and fascinating, and allows the reader to develop an instant connection with the story and the sense of meaning that it carries.