Honestly, I thought it was a waste of my time. The premise was off to begin with. (Is she telling the truth? Is she lying? You never really know.) Second, I (the adult, not the teenager) came away feeling mineral and sullied. I think literature should uplift and educate, and I felt like this book did just the opposite. There are so many good books in this world, I'd rather my child read something else. I would hardly encourage a friendship with Micah, at least one where you listen to 384 pages of her lies (some pretty disturbing). Why would I want my child to sit through that?
While LIAR is pretty much the best YA book of 2009--in my opinion--it has frequent language, violence, and occasional descriptions of sex. If you can handle that though definitely read it--it's amazing.
This is a really good book. I am reading it right now. The concerns I do have is langue and sex (it doesn't describe it). It has a lot of cuasing in it though. Micah can be concidered a bad role modle because of all the lieing she does.
i liked the book. i thought it was fun finding out wheather she lied or not and all, but the language they used was innapropriate. I'm pretty sure it had every bad word there is in the world in it at least twice
I had the bad luck of choosing "Liar" off the library shelf. I was halfway through when the innapropriate content rose sharply and I looked up this review. I was shocked at was I was reading / would have read. It was a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME and way too confusing to figure out. I have no desire to finish it; Micah is probably telling the story from an insane asylum. It would have been fun to figure out, but the BAD DEFINITELY OUTWEIGHS THE GOOD. I will never read another book without at least looking at the recommended age.
I am 16. I did not enjoy this book at all.
I am an avid reader and I have always finished books, but this was the first book I was absolutely unable to finish.
I thought it had an interesting premise but the writing was awful. Asides from the plot there was nothing compelling. I disliked the main character who was telling the story, and wasn't attracted to her in the slightest.
I tried to give this book a chance. But once I got to part 2? I just could not allow myself to read further. I mean I had taken the book thinking it would be a good mystery but once the bit about her being a werewolf was mentioned? It was entirely too much.
This is the only book that I can think of to date that I have nothing good to say about. It's a waste of time. Give your teen Hunger Games and leave this on the bookshelf. :)
I have not read this book. However, I was considering allowing my 15 year old read this book, but now that I have read the reviews shown on this website, I would not want my 15 year old reading this.