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Liar [With Earbuds] (Playaway Young Adult) (Preloaded Digital Audio Player)

by Justine Larbalestier (Author), Channie Waites (Narrator)

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Preloaded Digital Audio Player
Publisher: Playaway (Sep 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1441810307
ISBN-13: 978-1441810304
Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.2 x 2.9 cm

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4.0 out of 5 stars Life in Lie-Land, 2 Oct 2009

By	Patrick Shepherd "hyperpat" (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Liar (Hardcover)

This story is a dog. Well, no, that's a little bit of a lie. Really, it's quite a bit of a lie, as this story lies well away from the area of `dogness' and much closer to the area of `excellent'. Actually, this is a story about a dog. Uh, that's not quite the truth either. And the real question of this book is just what is the truth?

Micah is a seventeen year old girl, an outsider, a loner, a misfit, and, in her own words, a compulsive liar. She lies about her sex, about her father's occupation, about her `illness', about not having a boyfriend, about...

And she's the narrator of this story. She insists that she's telling the truth in this, her journal, but it soon becomes obvious that even here, what she's telling isn't the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the complete unvarnished truth. When her (secret) boyfriend is found dead, her reactions and those of the people around her seem almost surreal, her explanations more and more complicated, revised time and time again, with each new explanation revealing another layer of Micah's reality. It becomes a mystery, complete with all the usual suspects, none of whom are really as initially portrayed, most especially Micah herself.

Perhaps what is most compelling about this book is that each version of `reality' that Micah writes about is so believable and logical, until the next version comes along and totally turns everything upside-down again. This is a very great accomplishment; many works with unreliable narrators very quickly make the reader dismiss everything newly narrated as `not true'. Here the suspension of disbelief continues all the way to the end, even though the reader's alert flag is constantly set on `danger, this may not be true'.

The story is not told in total chronological order, but in fairly short sections of Before, After, Family History, and History of Me. The constant change of focus helps with the pacing of this book, and does a bit to add to the suspense (yes, there really is suspense here, too). Michah's `voice' comes across very much as a fairly mature intelligent teenager, and many of the incidents and people at her school will probably bring back sharp memories of similar things and characters in older readers, or as total reality to those near Micah's age. The prose is simple and direct; no long, complicated flights of prose poetry here, and is quite effective. The only real problem I had with this book was the ending, which seemed a little rushed, sugary, and greatly lacking in detail - but it also, and I think deliberately, leaves the reader wondering if that was really the ending.

This is a deft psychological thriller. And that's the truth.

Reviewed by Patrick Shepherd (hyperpat)

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