Going into this book, I wanted to try and work out which kid was the representation of which sin, but I soon found myself so lost in the story that it didn’t matter after three chapters. After a morning assembly where it was announced that a student/teacher relationship was going on and there would be an investigation to discover who exactly was involved, we follow the students as they try to get on with their lives during the fallout of such an announcement. Seven Ways We Lie follows seven students at Paloma High School who are all connected in various ways. I was super happy when I got my hands on a copy and it was honestly such an interesting insight into the inner workings of people’s minds and how they want to be perceived versus how they actually feel. Someone on my feed had retweeted a picture of this cover saying how much they loved it and I had to agree with them so I had to find out more about the book itself.
I first found out about this book through Twitter. For the unlikely allies at the heart of it all, the collision of their seven ordinary-seeming lives results in extraordinary change. When that scandal bubbles over, and rumors of a teacher-student affair surface, everyone starts hunting for someone to blame.
And like every high school, every student has something to hide-whether it’s Kat, the thespian who conceals her trust issues onstage or Valentine, the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal. It’s got the same cliques, the same prejudices, the same suspect cafeteria food. Paloma High School is ordinary by anyone’s standards.
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