Review: See How They Lie - Sue Wallman

Review: See How They Lie - Sue Wallman - March 2017

Recently, I read Lying About Last Summer by Sue Wallman and enjoyed the read and wanted to give her other books a go. This one I feel followed a bit of a similar trend but not. What I found similar was that both books are set in a psychiatric-type facility - Lying about Last Summer had our main character at a camp for grieving teens and they had to attend therapy. This one is an actual facility with all walks of life. Our main character Mae lives with her family at Hummingbird Creek as her Dad - Dr. Hunter Ballard owns the facility. They live via strict rules and regimes and everything is a token base. Follow the rules and there are no problems, don't follow them or slightly step out of line and that is a whole different ballgame.

The book starts with Mae helping Jenna the receptionist out when Jenna walks away, Mae answers the phone to hear that it's her Uncle Frank and to pass the message to her mum that her Mother has died. This surprises Mae as her mum doesn't have any family that she knows of. Soon Mae will start to ask questions but will see walls put up and eventually when a new teacher starts, it helps her to question everything she has ever been taught. Is anything about her life, real or is someone controlling their every move at the facility? During the book, Mae will become more and more suspicious and with the help of Noah and Miss Ray, she will reach out to the "real world" and discover not all is as it seems. When a patient dies at Hummingbird Creek and her mum gets sick, can Mae uncover the dark truth before anyone else gets hurt? Find out in this YA psychological thriller - See How They Lie by Sue Wallman. Though this book is set in the US, due to the author being from the UK it is written very similar to books based in the UK - that slow-paced thriller style rather than the US's faster-paced stories. Overall, Sue Wallman is a great author for fans of YA thrillers.

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