This was a good novel but an odd one. It definitely kept my interest the entire time but I felt like it had random additions (werewolves, Mychelle's story line, Connor) that could have been developed more or just left out altogether. I wasn't sure how it would end but I was disappointed with Hawthornes character and how she treated Mychelle knowing what happened to Lizzie. The book definitely made me think and ponder over things but it wasn't anything that will stick with me for a long time.

A former high school "it" girl disappears. The whole town can talk about nothing else. Hawthorne, a high school misfit, becomes obsessed with finding out what happened. The whole book tanks when Hawthorne decides that the girl has turned into a werewolf. There will be a small niche for this book.

The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett was mysterious and intriguing. I really enjoyed reading this novel and I flew through it in just a few days. I suppose the ending was obvious from the start, but like Hawthorn, I wanted to know if there was more to the story of how Lizzie Lovett died. I also really liked that the story was about Hawthorn instead of the character who's name is on the cover. Of course, the novel is about Hawthorn digging into Lizzie's life and figuring out what happened to her in the woods, it's more of a story about Hawthorn's growth at such a crucial state in life. Hawthorn is a high school senior who doesn't know what to do with her life after school ends, she's also relentlessly bullied by the "popular" girls because Hawthorn has some quirky habits and characteristics. She believes in the impossible because it's better than knowing the truth. She hopes to find out where Lizzie is so she can prove that her crazy theories are more than just crazy theories. But in the end she has to accept that the things that happen in life can't always be explained in simple terms or by absurd theories. I thought Hawthorn's character growth throughout the novel was great and this novel gave a nice lesson about life in the end. Overall, I totally recommend this book! It's a unique twist on a YA murder case novel so definitely take a look at it next time you're at the book store. (Side note: when I got to the end of my E-ARC I saw that the author is from my home town so woo go Vegas XD)
My biggest criticism is that I really disliked the use of the phrase "maybe, probably" throughout the novel. Maybe, probably, this phrase didn't have to be on every page in order for us to understand the Hawthorn is a confused teenager who doesn't want to accept the truths of life yet. I get that it's there to give some specific thing that could be only Hawthorne's, but it really bugged me that it happened so often (sometimes more than once in the same paragraph).

Aside from that, I found that his novel was very well thought out. I figured Lizzie was dead the whole time, but I always assumed it would be a hostile act not a suicide in the end. I loved that the idea behind the whole book was that people may seem happy and perfect on the outside, like they have everything they could ever want in life, but they're depressed and completely unhappy in their seemingly perfect life. This something I have seen around me in life, someone I didn't know very well but thought was a happy girl with lots of friends just overdosed on pills by herself one night and no one had any idea she was having any thoughts of the sort. So this type of idea hit me quite a while back, and with my mom being a therapist, I understand that there is so much more to people than just what they let people see.

I was so interested in the way grief was portrayed throughout the novel, first with Rush being deeply affected when he learned that Lizzie was missing, and Hawthorn being depressed for weeks when she found out the girl she had tried to understand and find for 3 months had killed herself in the woods and had been dead the whole time. It frustrated me a little that Hawthorn had been so judgmental about her brother when she did the same thing a few months later. But in the end, the character development made me so happy because she and Rush were getting along and understanding each other a bit more. I like good sibling relationships because I like to think my siblings and I get along pretty well. Sure we get annoyed by each other all the time but we never really fight as badly as Rush and Hawthorn do. The hippies probably helped Hawthorn grow up a little too because she discovered that she needs to stop hiding her thoughts and feelings from everyone. She found a wise friend in Sundog and that really helped her to grow and discover what she needed to do.

Emily was an interesting character. I can't really relate to that kind of friendship since it's not a situation I have really been through. I wasn't bullied in high school, I have the fact that I went to a performing arts magnet school to thank for that (everyone was perfectly weird in their own way). I liked that even after fighting and breaking apart a bit, Emily was still there for her best friend and Hawthorn had figured out that she should reciprocate that support more. I thought Enzo's character was strange in a good way because every part of me was screaming that he was wrong for Hawthorn, but I also knew that she had to experience what she did with Enzo to really mature.

Overall, I enjoyed diving into this story and experiencing Hawthorn Creely's crazy small-town life.

Lovable, wacky, and too realistic!

Great story!
You'll easily become involved and get carried along.

Seventeen year old Hawthorn Creely doesn't fit in well at school. She has one real friend, Emily, who is making other friends now and Hawthorn feels left out. Other students make fun of her and she hates school and the people there except for Emily. When Lizzie Lovett, a girl who was a senior when Lizzie was a freshman, goes missing, Hawthorn decides to find out what happened to her. She always saw Lizzie as the perfect girl, you know, cheerleader, beautiful, happy, popular. But as Hawthorn looks at things, she begins to see that perhaps Lizzie was not what she had appeared to be. Hawthorn gets Lizzie's old job, and boyfriend, and has many learning and growing experiences. I really enjoyed the book and I think others will enjoy it too.

I enjoyed the book but I felt it was an unusual one because it was very difficult to relate to the main character especially at the beginning. It didn't deter me from continuing to read it as I enjoyed the story.

I wish I could say I liked “The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett,” but that would be telling my own lie.

There were a few secondary characters I would like to know more about, but unfortunately their potential was wasted. Instead we have to suffer through one of the most annoying and least self-aware young adult characters I have ever encountered. What is supposed to be quirky is actually creepy, and her love interest is someone who did nothing but enable her. Not to mention the fact that he is someone you would not be surprised to find on an episode of Dateline. Those characters took me out of any interest I tried to develop in the plot.

I appear to be in the minority with “The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett.” If it sounds interesting to you, then by all means give it a read.

I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.

When Hawthorn Creely hears that Lizzie Lovett is missing, she isn’t worried. Nothing bad ever happens to beautiful, lucky girls like Lizzie. She can’t stop thinking about Lizzie’s disappearance, though, and Hawthorn ends up with a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and starts hanging out with Lizzie’s boyfriend in an attempt to prove her theory about what happened to Lizzie.

This book was different than I expected it to be because Hawthorn’s idea of what happened to Lizzie is so off the wall. Hawthorn was very immature and had a one track mind. I think this is a YA book that is best geared toward teenagers, not one with strong crossover appeal to adults. It wasn’t a bad story, but it didn’t hook me, either.

There were a few twists and turns, and for a good part of the book I had no clue where we were headed, which kept it fresh and interesting. Hawthorn was quirky and odd, and I loved reading her. Her friends and relationships were realistically written and made me remember what I loved and hated about high school.

Potential in this one, but fell on the execution. Like a gymnast on the bar, just couldn't stick the landing. And the routine was mostly Hawthorne trying to get momentum, but could only swing back and forth while dangling.

Lizzie Lovett disappeared and no one knows why. They think she was too good for the town. Killed herself. Murdered by her boyfriend. Hawthorne thinks she turns into a werewolf and ran off into the woods. Who knows. But Hawthorne is off to find the truth--Did Lizzie really run away? Was she murdered by her boyfriend? Did she really turn into a werewolf and now roams the surrounding woods?

Hawthorne is obsessed with Lizzie. Her disappearance has her snooping around the life of her. Working at her old job. Hanging around with her boyfriend. Dating her boyfriend. People are talking. Hawthorne is not listening. She is consumed with Lizzie. Her life. Her disappearance. Her everything. The more convoluted she ventures into Lizzie's life, the more Hawthorne becomes a faux Lizzie. Even to the point when the mystery behind where Lizzie went is finally concluded.

I did and did not like this story. Hawthorne is a stick in the mud. Her character is dull as rusty razor blades sitting in the shower caddy. And when she subsumes Lizzie's personality, she has lost her purpose. Unreliable, unlikeable, and unimpressive, Hawthorne does not do justice as the protagonist to this book. Lizzie should be the true star, yet we are dumped with Hawthorne and her crackpot ideas surrounding Lizzie going missing. Why am I reading a story about a character unreliably becoming another character? I don't know. But the act of Hawthorne trying to find her own place in the world by putting on a Lizzie Lovett morph suit is not a story I found appealing.

I was given a copy of this book through NetGalley, thank you whomever approved me.

Have you ever had that one mean girl encounter with someone and then obsessively hating them for the rest of the life you've lived so far? Okay. Maybe not that second part, but Hawthorn Creely did. Hawthorn Creely finds herself immersed in the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett, the girl who ruined her. She gets her job, and then her boyfriend ? You know what comes next: And then a whole bunch of other things happen.

I can't say that I enjoyed every part of this book, as the three stars (3.5 I'll give it) is mainly because I spent way too long of a time to read it, and it's not just because of my schooling.

I honestly really didn't like Hawthorn at first. She was complicated, pretty lazy at times, and I knew that she wasn't really someone I would want to be around. But then I read on and found out that I could relate to her very much. It was like i already had an understanding of the concept, but I was never able to put it into words like she could. ANYWAY, I ended up respecting her as a person. The way she interacts with others is surprising. Like the way she first spoke to Enzo and Romana I think was her name?

I found the way Hawthorn views Lizzie to be interesting. I didn't hate Lizzie as much as Hawthorn said she did, but then again, it happened to her so I can't really say too much on that. Hawthorn was obsessed with everything Lizzie Lovett. I even went on to sympathize with Emily for having to be the one to listen to this. I find it funny that Hawthorn went from criticizing her brother for his reaction to Lizzie's disappearance to her own reaction when she was found (ohohohohoho not saying anything). I don't think Hawthorn actually resented Lizzie, but that she was mad at how horrible she was, and then continued to be mad because in a way there was some part of her that admired her. For her perfect life? Maybe maybe not, but I have confidence that Hawthorn at least admired her.

I found the romance between Enzo and Hawthorn to be a little weird, but okay (oh come on, you already knew that this was going to happen). Enzo seemed to really get Hawthorn and even if she didn't voice every single thought she had, i think she understood him in a higher extent than others. The way he handled everything after they ended though pissed me off (and there goes A spoiler). Like seriously? Mychelle? If he actually cared about Hawthorn, he wouldn't have lowered down to Mychelle. I can't be too mean on this because he did find out about Lizzie's death (might as well just go off now that I have the spoiler button on) and somehow that just ended his and Hawthorn's relationship.

CAN I JUST TALK ABOUT CONNOR AND HAWTHORN FOR A SECOND? FOR JUST A MILLISECOND? (Lowkey slip in a Hamilton reference Bc why not) No doubt I saw this coming. I mean, who cares about the Rush's best friend? Of course, that and his small conversations with "Thorny" really made their upcoming romance obvious. Add the advertised romance with her and Enzo, and you just know that whatever it was that they were having, they weren't going to have it. I didn't realize that Enzo was going to stand her up until a few moments into her waiting, and then who else but cONNOR COMES. I was pretty excited just reading the interactions between them. I even like that when the author established their relationship, it wasn't some random sappy love. It was just the beginning of something that was going to happen for sure.

This brings me to the part that I enjoyed how real a lot of things were. The part where Hawthorn talks about losing her virginity, the way Enzo just left her there, and of course how the author established that Connor and Hawthorn were going to have something happen between them. Nothing was overly sappy, not everything was too pessimistic, everything was just... real.

I'm just happy I was given the chance to experience this book. I enjoyed most of it!

Hawthorn gets carried away with her imagination, and when local it girl Lizzie Lovett goes missing, she has a theory of her own, that Lizzie has turned into a werewolf. This theory brings the derision and often anger of others who are struggling with their feelings of loss, except for Lizzie's boyfriend, who Hawthorn begins to have feelings for. As Lizzie's mystery unravels, Hawthorn will have to seperate her own life from Lizzie's and find her own path.

I love books with unlikeable characters, but even Hawthorn was a bit much for me sometimes. Very interesting read.

Great read! The author tells a great story. I look forward to reading more from this same author.

This book is one of the most genuine, honest teenage narrations I have ever read. There are no points during our time with Hawthorne (who we experience the story through) that I thought weren't characteristic of what a teenage would think or do. Kudos to Chelsea Sedoti for capturing that teenage brain and thought process so superbly.

I didn't really love this book to start with, it was okay, writing was good enough however to keep going. I'm so glad I did. This is a case where a YA book is truly written for YA audience. Most adults are going to roll their eyes at some of the absurdity of this book; like werewolves potentially being real...and yet not really real. But I think many of us that enjoy YA books need to remember that we are not the target audience; and shouldn't be.

There are so many great awkward moments in this books including the loss of virginity, coping with death and grief, coping with bullying and overall coping with not knowing who you are or what you want to do. These are all moments we've all experienced. Some of us more recently than others of course (lol); but for those who are living those moments everyday, right now as teens I believe this book may speak to them and for that reason alone it should be in the library of every high school in the world. These tough topics are not dealt with in an overly sentimental, flowery way; instead they are handled in a real life, uncomfortable, uncertain, despairing way. Just the way the real world is.

I'm not a big crier with anything really (you can psycho analyze that later), but I really don't like books where the point is to make you cry near the end. The great thing about The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is that I didn't feel like I was supposed to cry. I felt many emotions for our characters but not once did I feel like things were so awful that I should cry for them. This way of writing the story and experiencing it was very honest to me. Some of you who are big criers will have your possible moment (or two) but for those like me that avoid the 'make you cry' books I can honestly say that while it feels like maybe this would be one of them it really isn't.

Overall I believe Sedoti has created a voice in the YA section that most teens will understand and relate to. That alone would be enough for a good review from me, but the fact that she has also instilled some learnings, understandings and reminders that are in the best interest for teens to adhere to is the icing on the cake.
Buy this book for a teen (especially a girl) that you know, they won't know it but maybe in ten years they will realize it made an impact and that it changed their life in small, important ways. That's what kind of book this is; one that unassumingly validates what you feel and then gently suggests a better way to view it or cope.

Lizzie Lovett is missing and Hawthorn Creely needs to know what happened. Hawthorn doesn’t even really like Lizzie, but that’s exactly the point – how could a girl so beautiful, so popular, so happy, just disappear? The girls went to high school together, but Lizzie was a senior when Hawthorn was a freshman, so it has been years since they crossed paths. Lizzie had moved on after graduating, left town to live with a 20-something-year-old boyfriend, Enzo, a hipster artist type with a crappy apartment and no car. This new Lizzie was so different from the Lizzie that Hawthorn knew, and if she could morph to a different person, maybe she really hadn’t disappeared but turned into a werewolf and left her human life behind. Hawthorn takes on Lizzie’s life, working her old job, dating her old boyfriend Enzo, while trying to figure out what makes Lizzie better and what makes them the same.
I’ll be honest, I enjoyed The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett, and if I read this book at fourteen years old, I would have enjoyed it even more. It reminded me of a teenager’s Gone Girl, with the beautiful, mysterious missing woman, the life of questions, the brooding boyfriend/husband, the different identities. Sedoti has a great talent for writing multifaceted characters and natural dialogue, which immediately drew me in.
The most impressive part of the book is the main character, Hawthorn. Already I’ve been seeing reviewers say how relatable she is, but that is not what I like about her. What I find impressive is that I don’t like her. Well, at least I didn’t at the beginning of the book. She started off as being a petty, selfish jackass. She pitied herself, drowned in her own low self-esteem, and went around being bitter, closed off, and angry. As she investigates what happens to Lizzie, she lets herself be vulnerable and leaves her teenage bubble, opens to experiences and changes. That’s where it gets interesting. She grows, which makes her human and therefore relatable. I could picture myself doing, or wanting to do what she did when I was a teenager, like following a mystery, getting a job and dating an older, artistic guy.
That said, I thought that Hawthorn’s response to finding out what happened to Lizzie seemed strange. I couldn’t understand her being so distraught and depressed over a person that she has never met and who affected her life only briefly. Everything that she thought she knew about Lizzie wasn’t right, so to be so attached to her was odd. Also, Hawthorn sounded younger than seventeen, maybe fourteen or fifteen, especially when it came to her odd fantasies of Lizzie being a werewolf. That fantasy was dwelt on a little too much.
I enjoyed the book and I think it is a great example of a young adult mystery. I just wish that it delivered on the title. It’s not really about Lizzie Lovett and her “hundred lies”, which I found disappointing. Still, I think this book should be on everyone’s “to read” list this year, especially for YA fans.

An enjoyable read - good characterisation and descriptions of life as an unpopular girl in high school. A really good main and side characters who have faults any high-schooler can relate to.

Hawthorn lives in the tiny town of Griffin Mills where nothing seems to happen. Hawthorn isn’t popular, she is “different” and she wishes to fit in and be someone else prettier than herself. On what seemed like a usual day Lizzie Lovett the most well-known girl in town vanished without a trace. Hawthorn thinks that Lizzie is going to turn up quickly but after she doesn’t takes it upon herself to start a search mission for Lizzie Lovett.

I had so many high hopes for this book. I saw the cover when browsing Netgalley last year and this is what drew me in at first. It was so bright and stood out for me so I decided to give the synopsis a read. This got me quite interested so I decided to request it. After being lucky enough to receive the book I was quick to begin reading it. This is where the problems started. It is a very slow paced read which is something that I struggle with in books. I like having fast-paced books that I get very quickly caught up in and don’t want to put down. I had preconceptions that because this book was a mystery it would all be fast-paced instead the storyline developed slowly which is why it took me so long to read.

This book wasn’t all bad, I did love most of the characters in this book. Hawthorn being my favourite character in the book. The fantastic imagination that she has made me smile throughout this book. I think a lot of teenagers will be able to relate to Hawthorn because she is “different” and doesn’t fit in. She is bullied a lot throughout her time in high school and has trouble making friends which are both things I can relate to myself. I adored the family characters in this book. You don’t get too many books that include as many family aspects as this book did. The conversations around the dinner table that the family had were a highlight for me. I wasn’t a huge fan of Enzo’s character and his relationship with Hawthorn but I guess some people will enjoy the awkwardness between the characters.

Although Chelsea Sedoti’s writing style was something I loved, the book just didn’t have a brilliant plot. It had a lot of potential to go places but it just sticks in one spot and doesn’t ever get to reach its potential.

I had to take a few days before I reviewed this book in case my feelings changed but they didn’t. This book just didn’t live up to the potential I thought it would do. The plot is too dense for me. But that isn’t to say I hated the book, I did enjoy the characters and the relationships in this book.

Overall, I would have to say if you like overactive imaginations and a slow-paced mystery this is your book. It touches on a lot of issues and is a good book to read in your teenage years. You just should stick around with the rather dense plot to get to the real story.

Thank you to Netgalley, Chelsea Sedoti and Sourcebooks for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I really liked the blurb for this, but the reality (for me at least) was an annoying teenage protagonist who is self obsessed, self absorbed and whiny. I completely understood why she didn't really have many friends - although obviously, bullying is bad. But Yeesh. Anyway, there was too much setting up and not enough plot and it just generally didn't work for me. But then I'm not an angsty teenager person. Never mind.

I really enjoyed the voice of this story and liked how it was different from a lot of stories I have read. This is a great story about being unique and figuring out life and herself.

After that, I started to get fascinated by the whole situation, mostly because I noticed a bunch of weird stuff. Which was how I figured out Lizzie Lovett’s secret.
The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti follows Hawthorn Creely, with all of her quirks and insecurities, as she delves deeply into uncovering the reason behind a local girl's disappearance. Determined to leave no theory unexplored, Hawthorn takes to the woods where the disappearance occurred to satiate her need for answers.
Lizzie Lovett went into the woods and never came out. But I would. I would come back with all her secrets.
Lizzie Lovett appears to everyone, especially Hawthorn, as the eptiome of perfect highschool popularity- pretty, well-liked and stuck-up. She is the opposite of Hawthorn in every way. However, as the story progresses, Hawthorn learns this may not be quite true. A complicated love interest, developed as a result of her investigation, helps her see that.
Lizzie was… magnetic. But once you started talking to her, you realized there was no substance. She’s the kind of person who can be summed up in one sentence. You’re strange and complicated and sometimes really frustrating, but that’s what makes you interesting, Hawthorn. Doesn’t that mean something?

As the plot move along it becomes more about Hawthorn finding herself in the midst of finding answers to the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett. As she learns more about Lizzie's life post-high school she quickly sees life doesn't revolve around popularity and cliques. She learns that you are not defined by people but rather by yourself.

I would never have the guts to walk away from everything and everyone I knew. I thought of Lizzie, of course. Like Sundog, she shed her old skin and became someone new, started over from scratch. I wished I had their courage.
Hawthorns theories about Lizzie take both sinister and fantastical turns satisfying her need for adventure and mystery. Eventually she comes to learn the truth and is left with the stark realization that things, and people, aren't always what they seem.

There was no shapeshifting involved. Hers was a much simpler story than that. Afterward, everyone nodded and said of course, of course, as if they’d known what happened all along. But they didn’t. How could they have known? Their guesses were as good as mine.
Sedoti has crafted a solid coming-of-age tale that will be easily relatable to anyone who has ever felt to be a little outside of "normal".