![]() ![]() The book as a whole is well-crafted and the writing style engaging. And by giving both girls their own voice, the writer makes it hard for the reader to tease out the truth from the girls' individual first person narratives (for those of you who like unreliable narrators: there are, potentially, two in this book). Piper and Quinn occupy alternating chapters and the writing is such that the reader's transition from one voice to the other is effortless throughout. As with all good supernatural stories, there are hints of witchcraft, hounds of death and family curses. We follow their journey as they discover each other and reveal the complexities of their shared family, their terrifying dreams and sinister non-human abilities. The story starts when identical twin girls (the charmingly named Piper and Quinn) are reunited as teenagers, having been separated at birth. ![]() But it also has another element: the supernatural. ![]() As teenage fiction Book of Lies has all the usual themes -confused sense of identity, relationship troubles, difficult family backgrounds. ![]()
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