Yes, pleasant, breezy summer nonsense is always welcome, but a little bit of darkness now and again is most welcome and Lying About Last Summer explores a safe amount of darkness without becoming inappropriate for younger readers or betraying the nature of the story. Skye is the narrator, and although there are times where she seems a little unfriendly, she generally came across as fairly likeable, and I was definitely rooting for her towards the end. I also loved the way that you get a sense of what each of the characters back grounds are and what they get from being at the camp is really evident as the book nears the end. Not only, Skye has to contend with her new roommates Fay and Danielle, and that comes with its own set of issues, but she now is receiving text messages from Luisa, from beyond the grave.

The messages that the book was based around i found creepy at the beginning but then i got used to it. In January 2007 I decided to stop faffing about From eight to eighteen years, I lived in Highcliffe, Christchurch, on the south coast of England. Clued-up Skye tells herself that messages via the internet are simply generated by a real-life person typing a message and someone is playing a nasty game, yet part of her also wants to believe in the miracle that these messages could really be from Luisa. I don't want to go to much into the characters through fear of spoilers, but I as well as Skye suspected everyone throughout the book! Wzruszyłam się na końcu i uważam że jest to książka o takiej tematyce że większość osób powinna to przeczytać.E Lockhart paints a vivid portrait of the Sinclair family, spinning an addictive tale of first love, friendship and family that teens will find impossible to put down. At the heart of this novel is a heartbreaking event and Skye's journey throughout, and her coming to terms which what happened, was portrayed in a haunting and realistic way. However, once she is at the camp she starts receiving text messages from someone pretending to be her dead sister. 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. This book explores a very wide range of themes, which are extremely prominent throughout, and act as an effective series of underlying messages within the overall plot.

But when she arrives, Skye starts receiving text messages from someone pretending to be her dead sister. Skye emerges as a good heroine, it is full of teenage characters who all have their own personal stories to tell. Kłamstwo minionego lata” to pasjonujący, emocjonujący kryminał dla młodszej i starszej młodzieży, dzieciaków, którzy szukają dreszczu emocji, ale wciąż jeszcze nie są gotowi na brutalne, bezlitosne powieści detektywistyczne dla dorosłych.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? And while this book does have a thriller/mystery element to it, what this book does really well is explore grief. Disappointed that I had to struggle through 200 pages to get to a good bit but it was a very good bit.

With it based in a camp for teenagers grieving it caused the setting of the book to really intrigue me as i havent read anything like that before. Skye is looking for an escape from the reality of last summer when her sister died in a tragic accident.however being in a camp for teenager grieving just be careful of anything that may trigger anything. You may think that this piece has all the ingredients of your typical young adult thriller novel, however I personally feel that it is more a story of courage. Yes, there are some people there that Skye dislikes and some of the activities remind Skye too much of her sister. Debut author Sue Wallman has created an appealing teen lead with an authentic voice that draws us immediately into the story and refuses to let us go.

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. If it hadn't been for my pesky day job forcing me back to reality, I would've read in a single sitting – I was that hooked. Having read and enjoyed Sue Wallman's other two YA novels earlier in the year, I always expected to like this one. All of the kids at the summer camp have lost someone close, but the last thing Sky wants to do is think about the past. There's something addicted about this book, and I can't put my finger on what it was that made me speed through.Lying About Last Summer is the debut YA psychological thriller by former journalist Sue Wallman and was selected for the Zoella Book Club in autumn 2016. And as someone who has gone through grief/is going through grief (depending on how you look at me/it), it's refreshing to see a book that looks at grief and shows that every person goes through this very differently. I got into this quickly, to be honest I have to be fair the introduced part with her sister and all that was good, but come on, you seriously wouldn't think anyone else was in the house- did she even own it? This YA thriller really kept me going to the bitter end, and I found the second half to be fast-paced and simply impossible to put down where Skye becomes more paranoid of everyone around her at the activity camp, and comes to wonder if they're responsible in some way.