Lying Out Loud by Kody Keplinger #Bookreview

Title: Lying Out Loud
Author: Kody Keplinger
Publisher: Scholastic
Published Date: April 28th 2015
Genre: Contemporary, YA
Page Count:309
Format: Hardcover

My Rating: ★ ★ ★

Goodreads Summary: 
Sonny Ardmore is an excellent liar. She lies about her dad being in prison. She lies about her mom kicking her out. And she lies about sneaking into her best friend's house every night because she has nowhere else to go.
Amy Rush might be the only person Sonny shares everything with -- secrets, clothes, even a nemesis named Ryder Cross.
Ryder's the new kid at Hamilton High and everything Sonny and Amy can't stand -- a prep-school snob. But Ryder has a weakness: Amy. So when Ryder emails Amy asking her out, the friends see it as a prank opportunity not to be missed.
But without meaning to, Sonny ends up talking to Ryder all night online. And to her horror, she realizes that she might actually like him. Only there's one small catch: he thinks he's been talking to Amy. So Sonny comes up with an elaborate scheme to help Ryder realize that she's the girl he's really wanted all along. Can Sonny lie her way to the truth, or will all her lies end up costing her both Ryder and Amy?

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 My Review

“Paper cuts are like battle scars for the academic...I, on the other hand, am best friends with Wikipedia.”

Lying out Loud is the Companion novel to The Duff a.k.a two side characters in this book were the main characters in that one. 

Just like with the Duff I had some problems with this one. The main problem I had with this one was how the lying just got worse and worse the longer things were going on. Now having said that I did like the friendship that Sonny had with her bestfriend and the guy that she was interested in. 

I loved the chat aspect of it and just wished it was a little different so that everyone knew the truth. Also can we just talk about how good of a friend Amy is, and also her parents were so kind as well. This is the type of family we need more of, and I hope that teenagers who are struggling with their parents in the same way that Sonny was have a support system like this one. 

“Sometimes people surprise you, if you let them.”

Overall I'm still a little iffy on this book, just because I don't want to glorify lying to this extreme. Yes things were a little different by the end I was so glad to see that (and it helped me be able to give this book three stars).  One other I want to mention is how real this book felt when it came to talking about colleges and the struggle that most kids have that know they can't rely on their parents for financial help for it. So few books actually deal with that, and it was nice to see that for a change in a YA book.