This was one of the book on my 'popular reads takedown' and I'm mad that I kind of enjoyed it. I was meant to be hate reading this book or reading it to the point that I can say "I gave it a shot and it's over-hyped" but fuck me, I guess. 

Through out the book, I kept getting pissed off because of the amount of lying (duh! Title says it all) and cheating. And I get it, it's a bunch of teenagers and nobody is ever the person they were as a teen, but still.

One girl gets her emotions and self worth sucker punched from both sides (From her mother and boyfriend. Seriously, fuck those people.), the other girl has burdened herself with responsibility to the point of barely knowing who she is without her achievements (family traditions and making up for her sister being sick), one of the guys I thought was going to be the alright character, but he's a cheater in the most typical way that makes me want to punch him, and the last guy just doesn't care about anything, which he got from his life being shit.

I've never been so angry at a book and so invested at the same time. I honestly would have DNFed it after chapter 5 for the cheating, but OMG does the author make it engaging. Although, the more I read, the less interest I had in the book to the point it was a struggle to finish it, but I was already most of the way through it.

I had a theory on who it was from the beginning (AuDHD pattern recognition), and I wasn't surprised at who actually did it.

It was sad but not unexpected, to me.

I'll make my highlights public but I pretty much figured it out before the end of chapter 4 or 5, which kinda sucks and is part of the reason I don't like mysteries as much as I used to. Everything follows the same pattern. Ugh. Just remember that the characters are TEENAGERS, which I had to remind myself of several times, and be prepared for the usual teenage angst stuff. Fairly fast paced. stereotypical characters. And reminded me of high school days when you had no control over anything in your life and hardly any spine to stand up for yourself.

The cops constantly interrogating the teens got on my nerves, despite knowing that they were just trying to figure out who did it. Honestly, this book could have been a hell of a lot shorter than it was and be a decent read, like a novella or something. In the end, it was a decent book, but not one I'd pick up again.