Book Review : What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
2 02 2009
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell
- A National Book Award Winner
Evie is a fifteen year old girl who lives in America. It is two years after WW II and her father has just come home. Her family takes a trip to Palm Beach where they meet an ex-GI Peter Colridge, who worked with her dad in Austria. She finds herself in an endless web of lies and recognizes them at a very slow pace. She soon realizes that everything she thought she knew about her family and Peter was a lie. How will she figure her way out of the mess? She’s only fifteen.
I thought this book was excellent. It is based on what can happen in real life. The story was intriguing and intelligent but also very serious. This book can take you to a world that you have never been to before. It shows you how life was back then and what situations you sometimes had to deal with. I recommend this book if you like mystery and romance.
-MR
I LOVED this book so much! Your review was very accurate!
~hl
Never read that book, but you made it sound very interesting, so I am going to read it soon!
-KB
Never read this, but I really want to read it now!
–LF
Wow. You make it sound so interesting. I would really like to read it.
That was a great and thoughtful book review. I thought it was also very interesting that the story happened a few years after WWll because the main character’s life would probably be difficult. I probably won’t read the book but you made it sound like a good book.