What an emotional read. Last Girl Lied To is an intriguing book that will leave you questioning  exactly how well you really know those in your life.  Last Girl Lied To is about the all encompassing friendship between Fiona and Trixie, and how Fiona reacts when Trixie suddenly disappears. The book does a great job weaving together past and present stories, making Fiona's back and forth questioning of reality feel real. You will quickly become invested in the characters and in finding the absolute truth.

Last Girl Lied To is an intriguing book that will leave you wondering just how well you know the people in your life.

Fiona and Trixie's relationship starts in an odd fashion and soon the relationship is all encompassing for Fiona.  So when Trixie disappears, Fiona doesn't buy it.  It makes her start to question everything that has happened between them.

The book does a great job with weaving past vignettes together with the present, which allows you to go along on the same ride as Fiona.  You will be quickly involved and invested in the book and want to the know the truth about everyone.

Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC of Last Girl Lied To by L.E. Flynn.  I had some trouble becoming interested in this book about two teenagers that disappear at different times and are presumed dead.  The story picked up and became interesting after quite a bit of reading, and then seemed to stall before becoming interesting again towards the end of the book.  There was a twist at the end of the book however, this was not a book that held my interest throughout.

Fiona was a cheerleader, best friends with the popular girls in school, skinny, and in love with Beau. Then Beau's brother vanishes into the ocean, her BFF claims Beau as her boyfriend, and Fiona walks away from her former life. She happens upon Trixie and a friendship blooms that interweaves into present day, when Trixie has vanished into the ocean as well. Fiona knows Trixie was acting odd over the summer. Changing her hair and makeup, always on her phone, and being secretive. Fiona befriends Jasper, Trixie's friend with benefits and the two of them search for answers on what happened to Trixie, because Fiona refuses to believe that Trixie went for a drunken midnight swim into the ocean.

The story was engaging with twists that I partially saw coming, although the book stretched out into a long time period: a year and a half covering Fiona's senior year in high school and her freshman year at college. There wasn't much of a mystery component and the big reveal didn't make sense. The police who investigated Beau's brother's disappearance (and then Trixie's) would have searched their emails (especially since both were ruled suicides, I think). And the emails provided the answers to everything, although it takes Fiona almost a year of hacking (and somehow not locking Trixie's email) until she realizes the password and discovers the truth. I also didn't like Fiona's relationship with Jasper, but she redeemed her character by not giving up on Beau, trying to save him from self-destructing into a young alcoholic. The story also fit the overused cliche of beautiful, skinny, loud girl befriends quiet, fat, loner girl which ultimately leads the protagonist into discovering that she's beautiful and amazing no matter what she looks like. 

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC; this book was a great read.

Trixie Heller walked into the ocean one night and everyone believes it was suicide except Trixie's best friend Fiona.
Fiona can't figure out why Trixie killed herself. She starts to investigate and finds out that maybe she didn't know her friend as well as she thinks. She also wonders how it connects to a previous suicide by a boy who had everything going for him.
The book is told in alternating chapters between present and past. There are several twists and turns in the story involving almost every character. I felt the ending was a little disappointing even if it was true to the story.

Toby and Trixie both disappear, no bodies for the funerals. Fiona is dead set that Trixie did not kill herself as people claim. She was her best friend after all-wouldn't she see it coming? Trixie was fierce, she was different, she was everything Fiona wasn't. Why would she walk into the ocean when she knew she couldn't swim? There has to be more to the story. 



Fiona begins a quest to try to find her friend, but he efforts lead to a whole lot of her past that she wanted to leave behind, but also a bit of her past she wished had never faded away. Will her refusal to accept her friend's death lead to finding Trixie, or will it lead to nothing but pain for Fiona? Might it possibly ruin her future?



L. E. Flynn has created a mystery that will keep readers turning the pages. I will admit I did not see the ending coming. I thought I did at a few points, but Flynn kept throwing curveballs to make me think otherwise. I will say the ending is utterly satisfying. 



Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC!

Great book. Loved the main character. The author really knows how the minds of teenaged girls work. I LOVED the ending.

This mystery has many twists and turns as Fiona tries to figure out what really happened to Trixie. Trixie supposedly commits suicide, but Fiona doesn’t buy it. She thinks of all the ways that Trixie set up her disappearance, but the question is why? Fiona and Jasper, Trixie’s ex-friend-with-benefits, try to answer that question. 

The answer will shock the reader when Fiona finally figures it all out.

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an eARC of this title for review. All opinions are my own.

Actual rating: 3.5 stars (this seems really nitpicky, but I'll get into my reasoning in a bit)

This book started off on a really high note. The writing was intense, with alternating chapters told in 2nd person, short vignettes about the past written to a girl who is long gone and whom the narrator is desperate to find. Then, as the book went on, there was less and less action and it felt like things were getting stuck, a Groundhog's Day sort of situation where time was passing, but nothing was happening and the narrator was just continuing to drone on and on to herself in a Holden Caufield-esque way (why doesn't anyone understand how awful it is to be me???). And then, BAM, at like 90% done, this thing ratcheted up quite a bit and ended pretty great. So, as I read, it went from a mental 4 stars, to 2, to 3, to almost 4 again, hence the awkward actual rating above.

Fiona's best friend walked into the ocean one night and hasn't been seen since. Everyone has ruled her death a suicide, but Fiona refuses to believe that Trixie would kill herself. She is determined to search for clues that point to Trixie still being alive and will not stop until she gets answers. Of course, the more she tries to learn about Trixie's past, the more questions she uncovers. How was Trixie involved with Toby Hunter, a boy who jumped off the pier a year ago? Was she actually dating Jasper, the boy that Fiona is now using to get information? Could Toby and Trixie be out there somewhere, starting over and living on the run? 

This book straddled the line of being a mystery/thriller about a faked death and being a realistic fiction book focusing on how relationships drift and change over time. It never fully landed in either spot. This is a second purchase type of book suitable for grades 9 and up.

WOW I just finished Last Girl Lied To by LE Flynn and I was blown away!! This book was amazing and I couldn't stop reading it. My heart broke to Fiona through her entire journey, The ending was everything I wanted it to be. GREAT GREAT BOOK! A MUST READ

Wonderfully compelling YA mystery.  Did Tricia die or disappear?  Her best friend Fiona tries to find out and learns that she may not have understood Trixie--or Trixie's reasons for befriending Fiona--at all.  I read this in one sitting because I just had to find out what happened!