I rarely review books here. This is largely because while in my anime/manga "reviews", I feel free to throw coherency to the wind and keysmash to my heart's content, with books for some reason I feel I should be more formal and actually, you know, review it, rather than just going "S:LDKFJ:SLKDJ THIS WAS AWESOME." I don't know why. But whatever, I should just get over it. It's my journal and I can gibber senselessly if I wanna.

ON THAT NOTE! A book that I have read! Later I will try to work up the motivation to write up the rest of everything I've read recently.

Liar, by Justine Larbalestier

First heard of this one because of the outcry that sprung up regarding the whitewashing shenanigans that were going on with its cover prior to release. Saw it in the store and went "!!!" and sat down with it to see if it was any good. I emerged 45 minutes later after it ate my head whole, and promptly bought it.

Guys, this book. THIS BOOK. It is really awesome. I don't want to say too much about it, because (and I say this as a spoiler monster who rabidly seeks out spoilers to everything) it really is better if you go in knowing as little as possible. Suffice it to say that the narrator, a senior in high school, is a pathological liar, and thus is about as unreliable a narrator as you can get. The boy she liked has just been murdered, and many people suspect she's the culprit, though she denies this.

The prose is very terse and spare, and creates this sense of uneasy quiet and space. It was like a high-contrast black and white drawing, all clean, thick lines in ink stretching across the page. The language itself was just, ffffnggg. It was really atmospheric and a joy to read.

tl;dr READ THIS BOOK