And then there will be truth...
Oh Nick Lake you have done it again! That is all I could
think whilst reading this book. I have only read one other book by Nick
Lake and I had the same thoughts about that one as I did about There will Be
Lies. For some reason I find Lake’s writing style a bit of a chore to get
into. Like In Darkness it took me a
really long time to get through the first few chapters of this book but once I
had made it halfway I was flying through it. Part of me enjoyed it but part of me was just so desperate
to understand what on earth was going on that I could not put it down. I had to
know.
There will be lies is nominated for this year’s Carnegie Award.
Unlike The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge which I adored this one has been a
real battle for me to read. Shelby Cooper has lived a very sheltered life. Her mum has wrapped her up in cotton wool shielding her from a normal life. She doesn't have friends, she is home schooled and she follows the same routine with her mum week in week out. All this changes when
For me the style of first person writing was not to my
taste. I
felt Lake really tried to make Shelby almost too teenage so a lot of the
time some of what she says felt garbled and nonsensical and there is definitely a thing as too much sarcasm. I found it irritating. The story jumps between Shelby going on the run with her mum and going into a place called The Dreaming. I really struggled with The Dreaming, I found it tedious and an unnecessary distraction from the thrilling part of the story. For a good three quarters of the story I was pretty lost
(much like Shelby). Frustratingly though I had to keep reading. I could not put the book down as I just had to understand what on earth was happening.
I know many people who loved In Darkness and I think would
love this too as it’s very quintessentially Nick Lake in style.
Not my winner but at least I finished it!
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