Free Little Library read: Seven Ways We Lie by Riley Redgate
Publisher: Amulet Books
Published: March 8, 2016
Pages: 356
Genre: YA/ Realistic Fiction
Review: Paperback
Seven students. Seven (deadly) sins. One secret.
Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. And like every high school, every student has something to hide—from Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage, to Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal.
When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame. For the seven unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change.
Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. And like every high school, every student has something to hide—from Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage, to Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal.
When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame. For the seven unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change.
Trigger warnings: student/teacher relationship/slut shaming/drinking
This was not my favorite book. It just felt like it was missing something. It felt bland. The characters really all seemed the same; there was nothing really that stood out. It all felt like the same tone of writing. Nothing made the characters stand out.
At times, when it was the Valentine's section, he would be talking to someone, and then I would have to go back and reread to see whether it was him or the other person who commented. It was little things like this that I dislike.
I guess the book felt too juvenile for me, and hey, I am an adult, so that could be the reason, but I am normally open to YA.
The whole teacher incident that happens... that just felt off. Once you read at then you might understand.
The plot was just normal. Not anything special or wow.
Riley Redgate is the author of SEVEN WAYS WE LIE, NOTEWORTHY, FINAL DRAFT, and ALONE OUT HERE.
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