All of the kids at the summer camp have lost someone close, but is bringing them together such a good idea? This was skilfully done as the author would have had to walk a very thin line to keep the plot focused on recovery rather than making the storyline all about the villain of the piece.

The main plot kinda fizzled to nothing and then the actual climax was over and done with a little too quickly. The book’s central mystery was resolved much earlier than I was expecting, and instead giving way to an ending that was more dramatic and tense. Loved this book - it's officially a Young Adult title and it's a very long time since I was a young adult, but the engaging central character and the twists and turns of the plot kept me reading. Many of these themes are reasonably hard-hitting, but they are handled in an accessible way that is ideal for a young adult audience. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.This makes me sad because I really did get into it and enjoyed the first portion, I wanted more from it and it unfortunately didn't deliver.

She won The Woman’s Prize for Fiction First Chapter Award in 2013 and has gone on to win many other awards for her young adult thrillers, the first of which, Lying About Last Summer, was selected for the WHSmith/Zoella book club. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. It's quite difficult to explain, you get lots of snippets into what's happened before the death, and you can already see what's happened, the building up to it was slow, and I honestly felt bored reading it.Lying About Last Summer is simultaneously a carefully plotted page-turning thriller with a suitably dramatic, and largely unexpected, climax. Fast forward one year and Skye’s mother is packing her off for a summer getaway at Morley Hill Activity and Adventure Centre for six days and five nights of back-to-back activities all fully-funded by a charity for bereaved kids. Supposed to be Skye’s opportunity to gain ‘closure’ she sees it more as an escape route from being hassled by her overcompensating parents and a grateful distraction from the memory of Luisa’s death. I liked the choice of setting too, a bereavement camp for grieving teens allowing to put several teens in one place making each one a possible suspect. Não achei que fosse bem um thriller mas sim um livro que nos mostra como a dor de uma morte pode ser ultrapassada e os caminhos que são percorridos para que esta seja ultrapassada.