Despite the book’s heavy drama, the story has a prevailing optimistic message: that it’s okay to be different. It has a clever structure and is very readable, but also addresses many important themes: pressure to succeed, fitting in, bullying, friendship, love, teenage sexuality, loneliness and troubled family relationships.
While some of them are friends, others are on the fringe, but the scandal brings them together and forces them to face the moral question of what to tell.
The story is written from seven different points of view which the author has matched to the seven deadly sins: lust, envy, greed, sloth, gluttony, wrath and pride, giving the reader the task of figuring out which character fits which sin. In this debut novel, written by then-college student Riley Redgate, lies routinely mask the deep secrets and insecurities of students at a Kansas high school and, as the investigation continues, their secrets come out in painful revelations. Riley Redgate’s twisty YA debut effortlessly weaves humor, heartbreak, and redemption into a drama that fans of Jenny Han and Stephanie Perkins will adore.High school is no walk in the park for seven angst-ridden teenagers and friendships are stretched to their limits when Paloma High School officials receive an anonymous tip about an inappropriate student-teacher relationship. Together, they could save one another from their temptations-or be ruined by them. After Juniper accidentally exposes her secret at a party, her fate falls into the hands of the other six sinners, bringing them into one another’s orbits. Then rumors of a student–teacher affair hit the fan. Everyone knows she’s a saint, not a sinner but when love is involved, who is Juniper to resist temptation? When she begins to crave more and more of the one person she can’t have, her charmed life starts to unravel.
No one would argue that Juniper-obedient daughter, salutatorian, natural beauty, and loyal friend-is anything but perfect. But it’s Juniper Kipling who has the furthest to fall.
The juniors at Paloma High School all have their secrets, whether it’s the thespian who hides her trust issues onstage, the closeted pansexual who only cares about his drug-dealing profits, or the neurotic genius who’s planted the seed of a school scandal. In Seven Ways We Lie, a chance encounter tangles the lives of seven high school students, each resisting the allure of one of the seven deadly sins, and each telling their story from their seven distinct points of view.
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