There Will Be Lies

Spoiler Alert: Don't trust the ice queen, she's closer than you think.

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By the same author as the last book, this book continues the common trend of messed up girls with messed up pasts. Although I did not love how the author approached the main characters trauma (every night in her sleep she went to a narnia-like land where there were metaphors for her own life, which in my opinion is a bit too science fiction-y but oh well) I got the idea. Although I predicted the final outcome, it was still interesting to hear this girl’s story. Ironically, it begins when she is hit by a speeding car due to the fact she’s deaf. After her hospital stay, she is visited by a mysterious creature called “Coyote.” He whisks her away in her sleep to “The Dreaming,” where she must save their land in order to save her own. Meanwhile, she can barely keep up in her own real life, where her mom finally lets them go on a road-trip together. The girl, having been sheltered all her life is experiencing many things for the first time, and isn’t sure if she even likes it. From trouble with the FBI, to her mom going insane, this book was entertaining and complete with many metaphors on the lies we tell ourselves in order to survive.

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Favorite quotes: “There are things that, when they break, they keep on functioning, just in some other, lesser way. Like an elevator: it breaks, and it's a room. An escalator: it breaks, and it's stairs. The heart is the same. It breaks, and you might not even notice, because you still feel things, you still have emotions.” ~~ “...she took away my yesterdays. But that's OK. Because now I am a person made of tomorrows.” ~~ “No one is too old for fairy tales.”