A review by jennifermreads
Liars, Inc. by Paula Stokes

4.0

Selling forged permission slips and cover stories to fellow high school students proves lucrative for Max and his friends Preston & Pavrati. But when one little cover story turns into a great big mess for Max? Well, let’s just say the truth would have been better – but what is the truth?

I started reading this at 1 a.m. – thank you insomnia. Four hours later, I was still reading and finding my adrenaline pumping. This was most definitely not a book to help me fall back asleep! To say I thoroughly enjoyed the story is an understatement. I was drawn into Max’s mess and consumed by a desire to see him come out of it. I was intrigued by Pavrati: lying for her classmates seemed to come so easily to her

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who knew how well she could lie to even those she claimed to love

! I was enchanted with Preston: what a great friend and an atypical big-man-on-campus. And the lies? Oh boy, what was real, what was fake? What was true, what was a lie? Around and around it goes. Though, I must admit that

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I knew Preston would be Adam as soon as Max found the picture in the book

, I definitely did not see that

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Preston/Adam would still be alive nor how vengeful Adam would be

. I am glad that I let a story carry me, particularly mysteries, rather than spend energy trying to figure out where the author is going or who-dun-it. This was an excellent ride that kept me up until the very last page …. And then some as I contemplated what I had just read! Yup … definitely not the book to pick-up to help lull oneself back to sleep!