Lying About Last Summer

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Happy ending or not, I was still slightly disappointed that the explanations at the end felt rushed. Guilt stemming from her belief that she did not do anything when she could have saved her sister Luisa, if only she had not remained frozen on the spot and unable to move watching the events unfolding in front of her. Her sister died in a tragic accident and her parents think a camp for grieving teens might help her.

However, before too long she starts receiving messages from her dead sister through a password protected messaging app they always used to chat away from the prying eyes of their parents. Still, I liked it until I reached the epilogue, where a strong and thorough resolution is sacrificed in favour of a romance element. It also uses flashbacks to conjure up some powerful imagery, which will act as one of my most abiding memories of the book. 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.I liked the choice of setting too, a bereavement camp for grieving teens allowing to put several teens in one place making each one a possible suspect. To see what really happened to Luisa was chilling, it seemed kind of too extreme for the book, which is a crazy thing to say, but when you think of Skye's life, and they're idyllic little house, it's hard to see it all going wrong, not helped by the fact Skye starts receiving text messages from Luisa, or so it seems? Sue Wallman is a former magazine journalist who now combines writing with being a secondary school librarian. Lying About Last Summer was a tense and gripping thriller while at the same time exploring grief in a beautiful way.

Overall, I rate it 3 stars, probably because I liked the plot but the execution for me was a little off. We follow Skye's journey of grieving for her sister, the guilt she feels and the secrets that surround her from the past and in the present.It's a quick fab read that is soaked with tense suspense, realistic characters, sun drenched in mystery and shines brightly with beautiful writing. 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.

Books about death aren’t for me”, just hear me out, because “Lying About Last Summer” is everything but a grim story.

From love stories to dark comedy, we think teenagers will love digging into this list over the break. Then she begins to receive texts from someone pretending to be her dead sister - and decides no one can be trusted. Skye’s sister died last year in a tragic accident, so this summer Skye’s parents think that a camp for troubled teenagers might help her process her grief.

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.

Lying About Last Summer is one of those books that sucks you in, and doesn't let you go until you've finished it.