Micah changed...more than we expected

Right now I do not like this book. At first it was a great novel, but I did not expect to be reading a fantasy novel. I liked her before she was a “werewolf”. Now she is just another fictional character that has been badly put together. I personally think she is lying about this too. She has lied to us before and there is not way she can ACTUALLY be a werewolf. I don’t know, it is just so annoying to have a book change genres on you midway through. Does anyone agree?

Now to get to the actual assignment. Ha ha. Micah went from being a liar to a werewolf in the middle of our novel. I think this change has affected her life a lot since she was younger. I mean, imagine being locked in a cage for three days! I cannot go one day without a shower, so I feel for her when she said she felt gross when she got out. When she changes in the summer she mentions she likes it, but misses Zach. If she misses Zach so much, then why wouldn’t she tell him about it? I think she did. I do also stick to my theory that she killed him. She does mention that another werewolf killed him, but how would she know that unless she was there? I think this change (a very physical one) puts too much stress on her and when she lies she feels so much more comfortable.

Week 5

First I would like to start out by saying that this reading assignment is not like most. This assignment is very fun and relaxed. The last book I read for school, or was supposed to read, was A Tale of Two Cities. I refused to read any books throughout high school that a teacher passed out, not because it was boring, but because the teacher would rip the story apart word by word. It pained me to read something and then hate it just because every time I saw it after that class I would think of what the symbolism meant or the satire in it. This reading assignment I am actually enjoying. I can relate to the character because she is in high school and doesn’t fit in, like I didn’t (and still don’t, but never will). This is a novel rather than classic literature too. I would rather read a newer book than something from the 1900s. As I wrote in my first blog, I like to read mystery books; which this one is, and I like to read something interesting. I do understand that interesting is different to each person, but to me, interesting is the unknown and the known clashing. What we know is that Micah is a liar, but we do not know what she is lying about. We know that Zach is dead, but who killed him and how he died is a mystery. I cannot wait until we find everything out, but I want it to keep my turning the page to the very end.

Week 4, Liar

The title of the book Liar by Justine Larbalestier was significant because Micah, the main character in the story, is a compulsive liar from the start. She is trying to quit lying, but she cannot seem to shake the habit. I feel bad for Micah because she cannot stop lying. It’s like she needs to lie to make her life better. I think it’s too early to criticize or praise her; therefore, I am indifferent. I do know that at the end of this book I will still show sympathy for her because that’s how I treat all my book characters. There is one point in the book where I feel like I was “stabbed” by the book. That was when they were in the counseling circle and someone mentioned that Micah was not Zach’s girlfriend, but Sarah was. That’s when I stopped trusting the book and started trying to guess the lies before the truth was revealed. Because the main character lies, I do not know if what she says about other characters is true or not.

I think that the big shock in the middle of the book is that Micah murdered Zach (I have not read ahead yet, so please do not ruin it by telling me if I’m right or wrong). Not only because she hated him, but I think she wanted him to love only her and he would not so she murders him.