I wish I had done more research as I actually didn't realise this was a YA thriller and I am normally let down by those - they seem to be romance driven and just not very good, in my opinion. I personally wouldn’t have compared it to One of Us is Lying or This Lie Will Kill You but I guess that’s because they’re ya murder mysteries (but not very enjoyable ones in my opinion). I’d say if you like Dawn Kurtigah, Kat Ellis, Katherine Foxfield & Juno Dawson then you’ll love this book. In the blurb they said this would be like Clue meets Riverdale... Sounds great right? Color me intrigued!

I though this book was going to be a murder mystery, which I guess it was I just hadn't realised it was a supernatural one. Also if you are going to rip off Edward Cullen you should probably try and improve on the original but Shane was, if it's even possible, even paler. At other times, the voice sounded as though the teenagers themselves were narrating - we followed their thoughts, and there were expletives used as modifiers. An example is the insertion of the phrase 'nope, that wouldn't do' into the narration, which is vastly different in tone from the lyrical, poetic prologue.

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It has it's very excellent creepy moments to give the author due, porcelain dolls and suchlike but those flashes of brilliance got lost amongst the idiotic and very uninteresting characters.

Parker Addison is the school’s golden boy. He’s rich, good looking, everyone’s dream friend. But he’s also jealous and controlling, and obsessed with Ruby, even though she doesn’t want him as a boyfriend again. Brett Carmichael comes from a struggling family, too. His father was once a professional boxer, but now his hopes for a bright future have faded and it’s down to Brett to succeed where his father failed. Brett’s also Parker’s wingman and would do anything for him. Gavin Moon is the outsider, never part of the popular in-crowd at Fallen Oaks, despite being a talented writer and musician. Ruby needed to be loved. Maybe it was wrong, maybe she was supposed to love herself, the rest of the world be damned, but she couldn't stop waiting to be welcomed into the universe." Gavin…why is he in the book? Also don’t see a point. He’s just the guy that doesn’t fit in so naturally at this type of gathering there has to be someone in the group that isn’t really part of the group. Although it centres around the one event, a lie that has been covered up, the story progresses through all of them sharing their part in it and uncovering the truth. This Lie Will Kill You Synopsis There’s a good mystery at the heart of This Lie Will Kill You and I was able to push my questions about the set-up to one side and watch with interest as the events that led up to the first death in the woods gradually became clear. The only question became how many deaths would follow…

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Published: 27th December 2018 | Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Books| Source:Publisher via NetGalley She shook her head, crossing the room. If she was any kind of religious, it was casually Catholic with atheistic leanings. She just wasn’t sure she believed in anything anymore. Still, she’d always been fascinated with the idea of being God and Jesus at the same time. Of being inside your body and watching from high above. Maybe that was what it meant to have a body and a soul, to be at one single point, and everywhere, all at once. Additionally, her character is further dragged through the mud when she starts interacting with Tommy. Her constant gushing and over-exaggeration of how handsome he is, along with several painful head-turns at a party described by the author immediately makes him seem too good to be true. She starts off as an awkward, second-guessing mess around him, criticising herself for saying "hey", and mentally crying over every tiny social interaction. Then she performs a stellar "main-character-accidental-clumsy-trip-into-the-arms-of-the-male-lead". Towards the height of their relationship, she knows absolutely nothing about him apart from the fact that he is "just so flaming pretty" (pg. 186) and that he's... a poetic flower guy I guess? I honestly felt like I was reading some sort of Wattpad romance fiction from the amount of times she obsesses over his dimples, or his "toned, tanned stomach." (pg. 168), and it was honestly nauseating how she just accepts all of his romantic advances without much question. The fact that their attraction for one another - the very basis of their relationship - was formed purely based on looks rather than personality was seriously uncomfortable, which consequently undermined the believability of Tommy's innocence. She sank down to her bed. When her phone lit up again, she was surprised to feel her heart leap. How could she still have hope after everything that had happened? Her heart was a bruised and bludgeoned thing. A Pandora’s box filled with grief and regret. But somewhere, hidden in the darkness, hope was glittering. It caused her breath to falter as she read Ruby’s text. It centres around a small town with seemingly ordinary teens living their life but there is a lie that all of them share. A lie that is brought to the surface in a game I would compare to cat and mouse.