brittharper 's review for:

Nine Liars by Maureen Johnson

4.0

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3.75 stars. This was good! I will say it probably could have been about 100 pages shorter if it hadn't gone so much into Stevie's stressing out about not being able to figure things out and her stressing about David (and Izzy). Many of those parts just seemed to be filler and not quite necessary

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(especially the drama with the very end)

. I also would have loved more insight into Stevie's process in figuring it out (maybe further explanation of details), it just seemed like she had no idea then bam she knew everything. I think if there had been more back and forth between the storylines throughout the book, this could have been better/easier to do. I liked the idea of going back and forth between present day and the story in the past about the murders - it would have been cool to have spread the past's story out throughout the book, rather than just having that drop off until the very end when the ending was revealed. I didn't love that the "reveal" was told twice (once in the past POV and once by Stevie), but that again goes into my thoughts about spreading the past POV out throughout the book rather than just at the beginning. Overall, it was good, just some thoughts on how I could have enjoyed it a bit more.

I did not realize this was part of a series, until I started reading and realized that I had read book #1 (Truly Devious) and none of the other books in the series... oops! I don't think I missed anything in not reading boos 2-4, as the story did not require a lot of those details.