Review: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

Title: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
Author: Chelsea Sedoti
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Publication Date: January 3, 2017
Edition: Kindle (400 pages)
Genres:

• Fiction
• Contemporary
• Mystery
• Teen Fiction

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


High school is not a part of life Hawthorn particularly enjoys. She's conflicted between being herself and yet yearns to understand and possibly experience popularity. When Lizzie Lovett, a young girl older than Hawthorn, goes missing, Hawthorn becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Lizzie. She gets a job at the diner where Lizzie worked, and begins to hang out with Lizzie's boyfriend. She has theories about Lizzie, what happened to her, and where she is now.

I decided to read this book because it is the Big Library Read for October 2017. It is well written with complex characters. Maybe I'm getting too old to understand the world of teens today, but I found it very strange, down right weird, at times, and because of that, I gave it the rating I did. On the other hand, perhaps, that assessment comes out of my own teen experiences and not today's reality, so you will have to judge for yourself. One aspect of the book I found to be very educational, however, is the author's treatment of bullying which Hawthorn experienced as well as feelings teens and young adults must confront today.