We told six lies

Victoria Scott

eAudio - 2019

Remember how many lies we told, Molly? It's enough to make my head spin. You were wild when I met you, and I was mad for you. But then something happened. And now you're gone. But don't worry. I'll find you. I just need to sift through the story of us to get to where you might be. I've got places to look and a list of names. The police have a list of names too. See now? There's another lie. There is only one person they're really looking at, Molly. And that's yours truly.

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Published
[United States] : Dreamscape Media, LLC 2019.
Language
English
Corporate Author
hoopla digital
Main Author
Victoria Scott (author)
Corporate Author
hoopla digital (-)
Other Authors
Nicholas Mondelli (narrator)
Edition
Unabridged
Online Access
Instantly available on hoopla.
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Physical Description
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 22 min.)) : digital
Format
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781974946501
Access
AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Kirkus Book Review

In Scott's (Hear the Wolves, 2017, etc.) YA thriller, a teenager investigates the disappearance of his girlfriend.When 17-year-old Molly Bates goes missing, the police immediately identify her 18-year-old boyfriend, Cobain, as the primary suspect. He's a quick-tempered, weight lifting loner who dresses all in black and has a tattoo of a crow on his armand he genuinely has no idea what happened to her: "Molly is gone," he thinks, panicked, "and they're in here talking to me when they should be combing the streets, the woods, the mountains." Molly and Cobain had been planning on running away together, but she never showed up to their planned rendezvous. Now he needs to figure out what happened to the love of his lifenot only to reunite with her, but also in order to clear his name. The problem is that Molly is still very mysterious to him; she knows how to read and manipulate other people, but she keeps her secrets to herself. As Cobain questions the other people in Molly's lifeher parents, her friendshe can't help but wonder whether he's being manipulated himself. The story effectively leaps between Cobain's past and present, although after a certain point, Molly also becomes a third-person point-of-view character, adding further complexities to the plot. Scott's controlled prose perfectly summons the dramatic pitch of teenage thought; for example, in this passage, Cobain remembers his thoughts on the day of his and Molly's first meeting: "I may have hated you for smiling at me because it opened this horrendous hope inside of me, and it was impossible to push it back into place. It was a hernia, that hope. A rabid animal that needed trapping." Indeed, at times such emotional excesses may make it difficult for adult readers to take the novel seriously. Despite this, though, the book is a true page-turner with an enjoyable, serpentine narrative.A tightly constructed YA mystery. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

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