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The Book of Lies Hardcover – October 10, 2017
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In this suspenseful, gripping novel, teen twin girls raised separately meet for the first time at their mother’s funeral. Quinn has been trained to never tell a lie. Piper is a practiced liar. Narrated in both voices, the story of their quest to learn truths that have been concealed from them is shadowed by a dark spell that beckons them to run at night with a pack of murdering ghost hounds. Suspense, menace, mystery, witchcraft, family secrets, mistaken identity, and romance are interwoven in a brilliantly written page-turner that will grab and thrill teen readers.
- Reading age12 years and up
- Print length384 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 - 9
- Lexile measureHL570L
- Dimensions5.5 x 1.29 x 8.25 inches
- PublisherClarion Books
- Publication dateOctober 10, 2017
- ISBN-100544900480
- ISBN-13978-0544900486
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"A great addition for those who enjoy thrillers or fantasy fiction." –SLJ "With elements of gothic literature (and a few references to Wuthering Heights), this story could serve as a bridge to gothic classics. Thriller readers may simply enjoy the creepy mystery." —Kirkus "Compelling female leads, an atmospheric setting, and short, quick chapters make this a good choice for reluctant readers looking for horror lite." —Booklist ". . . [The Book of Lies] is a juicy story of twins gone . . ." —Bulletin —
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QUINN
There are things you know you shouldn't do. Like standing on the tracks when the train is getting close. Or holding your hand over an open flame'?I can wave it across fast and be fine, but something inside makes me hold it there a second longer, then another, and another. Train tracks and mothers are much the same as flames: too close, too long, risk pain.
If I sat and made a list of all the things I shouldn't do and put them in order, starting with the worst, being here today would be near the top. But I'm drawn to things I shouldn't do. Is it just to see what happens, who it will hurt? Maybe.
So, no matter how much that inner voice of caution, of reason, said stay away; no matter how I tried to convince myself or lose my bus ticket and deliberately didn't wear anything even vaguely acceptable, I was never going to be anywhere else, was I?
I'm shivering under leafless trees on a hill above the crematorium, my coat a splash of red in a colorless dark day. Considering my options.
It starts to rain, and I'm glad. She hated the rain. Not just how most people grumble if they're caught in a shower or their garden party is ruined'?she properly hated it. Almost like she was made of something that would wash away, not sinew, muscle, and bone.
Maybe she was afraid rain would wash away her mask'?the one she's wearing in the newspapers, smiling, with a man I've never seen before. Smiling? I wonder if she smiles in her coffin, if they arranged her features into a pleasant lie for the afterlife. If they hoped it'd persuade whoever's in charge to open the pearly gates, instead of giving that final push for the long slide down. Or maybe there wasn't enough left of her face.
Cars start winding up the road. The first is long and black, a coffin in the back. When it pulls in front of the crematorium, it seems right that the rain goes from steady to more. It thunders down in sheets, and lightning splits the sky.
Even as I hang back and think about the things I should and shouldn't do, about how close to get to the flame, it's almost like the storm has made the decision for me. It says, Quinn, you must step forward. You must seek shelter.
But that's just the excuse. The truth is that I'm here to make sure she's really dead.
PIPER
The wind howls, rips the umbrella inside out as soon as I step out of the car. Cold raindrops pelt my face, my hands. In seconds, the wind whips my carefully arranged hair to a wild mess. Hard and furious drops sting my skin, and I focus on that pain, to avoid all the others.
Another umbrella is rushed over both of us as Dad emerges, but all I can think about is how the rain must pound on her coffin lid. Does it echo inside? Will she bang in protest, yell, Oi, make it stop? She who lived for sunny days shouldn't have her last outing like this.
The pallbearers take short, measured steps despite the freezing onslaught, and I want to yell, to shriek at them to hurry, to get her out of the rain. Dad's cold hand seeks mine, and I grip it a little too tight. Dad and I follow the coffin'?follow her, follow Mum'?inside.
One of Dad's aunts clucks and smooths my hair, and I'm pulled toward the row at the front, but like the rest of this, it doesn't really register.
I try the words on again inside my head. My mother is dead. My world is different; everything is different. I know it, but I don't know it in my guts. The coffin has been placed to one side at the front'?dry now. Did somebody dry it? She's inside it, but it's not really her: just what is left.
Knowing all these things didn't prepare me for any of this. Something is shaking deep inside me; panic is building.
I want to scream, Stop this, it isn't real! Stop pretending that it is!
It can't be.
Focus on breathing: in, out, in, out.
They all think it's real. It's in their eyes'?those that meet mine, those that shy away.
Breathe, Piper: in, out, in, out. I can't lose it. Not here, not now.
Focus on something else.
I turn and search the faces behind us, skipping over most of them. Dad's family, his work colleagues, his and Mum's mutual friends. Not many. No one from Mum's family. No one from her past, from before I was born seventeen years ago.
There is a good-size contingent of friends from my school. Apart from but near to them is Zak. His steady gaze echoes his words last night: I'm here for you. Anything I can do, anything, just ask and I'll do it. No matter what. And the touch of his eyes soothes me now, as it did then. The panic eases, just a little. But it's enough.
The service is about to begin when the doors at the back open, and the rent-a-vicar pauses to wait. A latecomer? I hear a disapproving tch under the breath from one of Dad's aunts behind us. I hazard a glance backwards. A slight figure, a girl in a red coat and muddy boots. She's moving toward the empty row at the back. A rainbow scarf covers her head, pulled low over her face.
Who could it be? Could it . . .
No. No way. Not here, not now. My pulse quickens.
Product details
- Publisher : Clarion Books (October 10, 2017)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 384 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0544900480
- ISBN-13 : 978-0544900486
- Reading age : 12 years and up
- Lexile measure : HL570L
- Grade level : 7 - 9
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.29 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,064,957 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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About the author
Teri Terry has lived in France, Canada, Australia and England at more addresses than she can count, acquiring four degrees, a selection of passports and an unusual name along the way. Moving constantly as a child, teenager and also as an adult has kept Teri on the outside looking in much of her life. It has given her an obsession with characters who don't belong or find themselves in unfamiliar places.
She writes thrillers for both adults and a YA audience. Her first adult psychological thriller, The Patient, was published in February 2024 with Bookouture. Her many YA thrillers include Scare Me, the Slated trilogy, the Dark Matter trilogy, Mind Games and Book of Lies. Her books have won over twenty regional and national book awards,
A full time writer, Teri has also been a scientist, a lawyer, an optometrist, and worked for schools and a charity.
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I was a bit confused most of the time because it's all so mysterious. You hardly get any answers and have to wait almost until the very end in order to grasp what the hell is happening with all the creepy dreams, the role of dogs in the story, the lies, deceptions, the secrets withheld in the Blackwood family, the truth behind their mother's death. There is a lot in the past to dig up. In the end, it all makes sense and you can see how great the idea is as a whole. It just takes some time to get there and untangle things.
I liked how big a role lies play in this book, how dangerous they turn out to be. It makes you question not only the character's motives, makes you doubt their good intentions, but your very own behaviour as well. To lie or not to lie? Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth. Well, a bad taste remains, the fear of the lie being discovered one day, the corresponding consequences. Will they be worse than having told the truth in the first place? In this book, more honesty might have prevented things turning into disaster, as would have coming forth with crucial information instead of withholding it. The sisters would have been more prepared. But they are teens, rebellious; the outcome might have been the same or even worse. We will never know, but I like the speculating that goes on even after being finished with the story.
Another aspect I liked was the whole good sister and bad sister thing that turned out to be not quite so black and white like it seems at first, although I knew pretty quickly which sister I liked more.
I only wish I could have emotionally connected with the characters more. They seemed to keep their distance from me, not letting me get in too deeply.
All in all, the book is full of surprises, although of the dark kind. If you are looking for something to cheer you up, well, it might not work so well for you. There is a lot of secrets and lies to wade through. You get the creeps quite often in form of sinister and sometimes bloody dreams. It's different and creepy but fascinating as well. Just see for yourself.
I've read other twin books that were much stronger in story arc and characters and so this really paled in comparison. The only part that kept me reading was honestly just seeing how the author would wrap everything up. And again I was disappointed in the direction that was chosen. I am sticking with my 3 stars because I feel this was written well and the author did make the story sorta interesting. I just wish this would have been marketed differently. If it had been my expectations would have shifted I might have had a different reading experience. As it stands though this was just okay for me.
Oh and I hated the characters for the most part. I couldn't find any redeeming qualities in any of them and that was another bummer for me.
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Don't get me wrong, this is a great story--and I LOVED that it was set on Dartmoor as that's where I live. The incorporation of Dartmoor myths and legends was also a nice touch.
The only thing that made me struggle a bit with this book (well, I 'struggle' but I still read it pretty quickly) were the twins--although they had clearly distinguishable personalities, I did keep getting them a little mixed up as their first-person narratives didn't vary that much in terms of the actual writing. I kept having to flick back a few pages to check which twin it was. I also didn't particularly like Piper, or find her relatable. Quinn was much better!
But the ending! It was this that definitely 'redeemed' the book for me (again, I say 'redeemed', but I still did love this book--I know I'm sounding negative!). It was the perfect ending--and really, it couldn't have ended in any other way.
It would have been nice to find out what happened after the end.. Like an epilogue of sorts - whether it worked out for her, or not, with Zak.
Still, amazing work, the first I've read by Teri Terry, it certainly won't be the last!!