I enjoyed this YA novel. The flow of the book was fantastic and I flew through it. I enjoyed how Hawthorne grew throughout the book.

Fantastic YA book! Teenage girl, Hawthorn, tries to unravel the mysterious disappearance of popular, have-everything Lizzie Lovett, while also struggling to find her place in the world. Full of romance, bullying, friendship, family relationships, this book has it all! Hawthorn was a very relatable character, who drew me in.

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This book was kind of all over the place, but I liked it! Hawthorn, who the story is really about, doesn't know what to think about Lizzie Lovett's disappearance. Truth be told, she's had very little interaction with her, and the little she has has wasn't exactly positive. But her apathy slowly grows to intrigue, which turns into an obsession. She goes as far as taking over Lizzie's old job and befriending her boyfriend in hopes of learning more about her.

I have to say, as cooky and frustrating as Hawthorn could be, I found myself so endeared to her. I love a person that struggles with their filter and can't help but be apologetically who they are, even if it means being isolated from time to time. There were a few aspects of the story that got a little tired (maybe Lizzie turned into a werewolf? let it go!) but overall I loved how she learned so much about herself in the process.

There is a touch of the paranormal in this YA suspense, yet what becomes Hawthorne’s theory of why a popular high-school graduate disappears in a city where nothing exciting EVER happens is not the only product of her investigation. She also discovers the assumptions and misassumptions in her own life.
While at times Hawthorne’s whine about how everyone is important but her grates on the reader’s nervel. Still, this book is still well worth the time and reading of a young girl’s coming to age.

This was an incredibly interesting idea of a plot-line. I was a little skeptical going into the story, because I'm not a fan of werewolves, but Sedoti really hit on coping mechanisms of the different characters, and I think that is vitally important to a story like this. I think Lizzie is a little ridiculous, but when I think of her age/experience, it sounds just about right. This story was a little outside-the-box, which is what drew me to it in the first place.

The worst thing a mystery can do is not be mysterious at all. I saw that ending coming from a mile away. Good writing, though. I'll read the authors next book for sure!

I read this a few months ago but Goodreads deleted the review. I loved this book so much. It reminded me of what Highschool was like and the difficulty of family, friends, boyfriends. It's truly relatable.

I couldn't get very far in because the main character was so incredibly annoying.

This is one of those books that has a great story but you want to tell the character to listen to the adults. I understand her fascination but that doesn't mean she should put herself in some of the situations she did. The story would've been much different if she did though. It was kind of a sad book but I appreciate the feeling of possibility.

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.