The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti Book Reviews

Review: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

September 28, 2017 Reviews 0 ★★★★

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti
Published by Sourcebooks Burn down on Jan 3, 2017
Genres: YA, YA Contemporary
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
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Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person'south investigation. Or maybe she was. Just that's only because Lizzie Lovett'due south disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't happen to pop girls like Lizzie Lovett, and Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment-which means the time for speculation is now.

So Hawthorn comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too cool to take seriously...at start. The more than Hawthorn talks, the more she believes. And what better way to collect evidence than to immerse herself in Lizzie's life? Like getting a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and hanging out with Lizzie'south beau. Afterward all, it's non as if he killed her-or did he?

Told with a unique voice that is both hilarious and centre-wrenching, Hawthorn's quest for proof may uncover the greatest truth is inside herself.

This book has a bright, frilly cover, right? All sunny yellow and flower petals. THAT COVER IS A Lie, READER. THIS IS A BLEAK, Sorry BOOK. Readjust your expectations appropriately and then come back for it.The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett isn't a book you should skip simply because it isn't what you thought it would be! Information technology managed to squeeze a few tears out of my desert-dry out eyes and cold heart.

Hawthorn is a complex, difficult character to stick with, merely I can still sum her up in three words: SO FUCKING AWKWARD. She has no concept of what is and isn't appropriate. She'south pretty much the ultimate outsider in her small little boondocks! Having been that actually weird kid at one betoken in my life (especially in middle school, when I had a lot of problems going on), I got her. At the aforementioned time, a massive barrier went up between us because she reminded me of Creepy Joey.

Joey was my tenth class biology partner and happened to exist dating one of my friends I'd met the summer before. If I complained of being common cold, he'd shove my hands upwardly his shirt because he was ever warm. If I wore a skirt to school, he'd keep putting his paw on my leg and slide it up "jokingly" throughout grade. He too claimed he was a werewolf and threatened to kill himself when my friend bankrupt up with him the adjacent year.

And so yeah, it's understandable I'd be put off past Hawthorn reminding me and then much of Joey? I don't want to be in his head or anywhere near him ever once again, but Hawthorn put me pretty shut to that.

Still, that roadblock is an entirely personal element and it's hard to count that confronting the volume. Though Hawthorn only interacted with the cracking Lizzie Lovett all of twice when Lizzie was a high school senior and Hawthorn was a freshman, she becomes deeply invested in finding out what happened to Lizzie. Her brother is securely afflicted by the woman's disappearance because he knew her, only for some reason, information technology goes much deeper for Hawthorn.

Our main grapheme is no Nancy Drew or even a vaguely constructive investigator, though! She's but a girl fumbling around while the police are doing the real piece of work. Hawthorn even grows disconcertingly close to Lizzie'south boyfriend, who was the final person to see her before she disappeared on their camping trip, and starts up a relationship with him. In an unwelcome connectedness to Creepy Joey, Hawthorn has decided Lizzie is a werewolf.

Yeah, this is what you're in for.

Though it sounds ridiculous, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is surprisingly emotional as Hawthorn comes to sympathize her own life and problems through Lizzie's disappearance into the forest. Rush is very aware of his sister'south obsession and does his best to look out for her. Another personal thing hither, but Rush'south clear desire to protect his sister made me tear up. It would be nice to have a brother similar him instead of the racist, securely bigoted Trump supporter my own blood brother is. (Another affair that would be nice: less mean girl bullshit, just a modest character named Mychelle Adler brings that in spades.)

The real trouble of the book is tied into a major theme that pops up throughout the volume via conversations Hawthorn has with other characters. The solution to a mystery is e'er a thwarting, they say, because it's much more mundane than they wanted it to exist. In a move of pretty obvious foreshadowing, the cease of The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is definitely disappointing. Just not because information technology's mundane! Nah, it turns this otherwise great novel into the usual Expressionless Daughter book.

Allow's be real, yous've read the Dead Girls books: all those novels in which the main character'due south entire arc revolves around a missing or dead daughter. You could easily name a few off the top of your head right now because they're pretty common! For instance, the i that got adapted into a bafflingly popular Netflix series and features a whole lot of triggering content like graphic scenes of rape and suicide.

Fifty-fifty if the actual point is that The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett actually is just another Dead Daughter book and not something greater like Hawthorn (and the reader) would like, it removes some of the emotional oomph from previous scenes as information technology hammers in the cliche bespeak that nobody has information technology perfect fifty-fifty if we retrieve they do.

The matter is that every i of us feels similar an outsider looking in, simply nosotros have no idea the house is empty. The silhouettes nosotros think we run into enjoying the perfect life aren't people at all, just a fox of the lite created when you turn on the lights and pull down the window shades. This is what The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett exposes for the reader. If you want to become dorsum in affect with your inner outsider for some reason, this is the book that will bring them out while bringing you to tears.

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