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    The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
    The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
    The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
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    The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

    Written by Chelsea Sedoti

    Narrated by Jessica Almasy

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    Hawthorn Creely is searching for the missing Lizzie Lovett, but she might just end up finding herself Hawthorn Creely doesn't fit in, and that was before she inserted herself into a missing persons investigation. She doesn't mean to interfere, but Lizzie's disappearance is the most fascinating mystery their town has ever had. And she's pretty sure Lizzie'll turn up at any moment, which means the time for speculation is now. So Hawthorn comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too absurd to take seriously.at first. To prove she's right, Hawthorn hunts for evidence by immersing herself in Lizzie's life. Taking the job and boyfriend of a missing person might seem kind of dangerous, but it may just be the push Hawthorn needs to find her own place in the world.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 3, 2017
    ISBN9781501939013
    Author

    Chelsea Sedoti

    Chelsea Sedoti fell in love with writing at a young age after discovering that making up stories was more fun than doing her schoolwork. (Her teachers didn’t always appreciate this.) She now focuses that passion by writing about flawed teenagers who are also afraid of growing up, like in her novels, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett and As You Wish. She lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, where she avoids casinos but loves roaming the Mojave Desert. Visit her at chelseasedoti.com.

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    • 4/5
      The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti is a unique young adult novel with an intriguing mystery and a flawed but likable main protagonist.

      Hawthorn Creely is initially indifferent to the shocking news that former cheerleader Lizzie Lovett vanished during on a camping trip with her boyfriend, Lorenzo Calvetti. When the numerous searches for Lizzie turn up no new information, Hawthorn becomes obsessed with finding the missing young woman. With an outrageous theory about the possible reason for Lizzie's disappearance, she begins waitressing at the diner where Lizzie worked and she quickly befriends Lorenzo. With surprising ease, Hawthorn convinces Lorenzo to help her look for clues and evidence that will back up her theory about what happened to Lizzie and hopefully find the missing young woman.

      Hawthorn is initially a difficult character to like. She is rather self-absorbed, tactless and immature. Her insecurities are endearing and as someone who is always on the outside looking in, she is often a target of her mean-spirited classmates. Hawthorn had a passing acquaintance with Lizzie years earlier that ended in disappointment and she is surprised by her obsession with the seemingly perfect woman's disappearance. Her quest for proof that her speculation about what happened to Lizzie is correct leads to a startling friendship and romance that provides Hawthorn with unexpected insight about herself and her classmates.

      The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti is a surprising journey of self-discovery for Hawthorn as she tries to uncover the truth about Lizzie's disappearance. The storyline is rather unusual and although Hawthorn's theory about the reason Lizzie vanished is a tad far-fetched, it is quite fun watching her try to find the missing woman. Her friendship with Lorenzo is enjoyable but their relationship does venture into somewhat uncomfortable territory considering their ages. Hawthorn grows and matures as the story progresses and she soon turns into a character that is easy to like and root for. An enjoyable, insightful young adult novel that I recommend to readers of all ages.
    • 4/5
      The narration of this book was /amazing/.

      The book has a depth that, for me, was part charming, and part frustratingly YA. I'm the last person who can fault even a fictional character for over-reacting to things. That being said, Hawthorn is a bit difficult to like, even for me. The secondary characters were more appealing than the protagonist - although that might not have been the case if I had read this as a teenager :)

      Overall, I really did enjoy this one. I definitely want to read more from this author.
    • 4/5
      * ARC received from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review *

      In the beginning, I didn't really like Hawthorn. I thought she was really annoying, self-centered, and behaved really immaturely for someone who is a senior in high school. As the story progressed, my opinion changed. Hawthorn continued to make silly comments and acted in an immature way but it was tempered with growing self-awareness of the way others perceive her. She stopped victimizing herself and became so much stronger. This whole story isn't really about Lizzie so if you are looking for some kind of thriller, you will be grossly disappointed. This novel is a coming-of-age story about a misfit who finally learns to love herself and appreciate her uniqueness. And for that reason, I loved the story. I could empathize with Hawthorn; I know what it's like to never fit in and deal with bullying on an everyday basis. I know what it's like to want to be loved and to have someone "get" you when no one else does. The author did a fantastic job showing how her desperation for these things leads to questionable decisions, and how she bounces back when things go south. The writing style also made this story an enjoyable read. With every word, I felt compelled to keep going, keep reading about Hawthorn and her family, and all the ways in which people are affected by tragedy. Overall, this is a great teen fiction story, and I can't wait to read more by this author!
    • 4/5
      This was an impulse borrow. I went to my local library's website to check on some holds I had placed (true fact: a watched hold never comes in) and saw this book being spotlighted as Overdrive's latest Big Library Read. I thought the cover was pretty, so I borrowed it.That ... is not the best way to pick a book, I admit. And halfway through this one I was thinking that it served me right, because it turns out this is Sedoti's debut novel, a YA offering whose narrator is Hawthorn, high-school senior and daughter of a hippie mom and a history professor dad who for those reasons and more has only one true friend and gets picked on constantly at school. Are your eyes rolling yet? Mine were rolling, because while I have the utmost sympathy for anyone's high-school nightmare scenarios (I had one of those myself) I am no longer at a life stage where I find such tales to be particularly interesting. And Hawthorn is written (to me) as a rather young 17-year-old. I would have bought the angst and such much more readily if she had been, say, 13 or 14 instead. And yet ...The plot revolves around the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett, a young woman who graduated from Hawthorn's high school several years earlier, and who was the epitome of everything Hawthorn hates about school. She was pretty, she was outgoing, everyone liked her, she had her whole life together. So when she disappears while on a camping trip with her boyfriend, Hawthorn becomes obsessed with figuring out what happened. She is convinced that Lizzie is a werewolf, who shape-shifted into her natural self and bounded away. And she really believes it, and goes looking for evidence to prove it. (Perhaps you can see why I had trouble buying that she was a senior in high school. She sounds like a seventh grader, doesn't she?)But then the book takes a turn, very much for the better. The Lizzie mystery is solved, but what it leaves behind is a young woman struggling to cope with the truth. This last third or so of the book is quite good, with some really thoughtful discussions and depictions of depression and guilt and the quest for life's true meaning, and in general the sort of complex feelings that late adolescents spend most of their time obsessing about. It felt very natural and real, and pretty much redeemed the rest of the book for me.Now, whether you want to wade through the first two-thirds of teen angst to get there, I can't say. But it was a refreshing twist to have a book end on a high note instead of the other way around.
    • 4/5
      First off, I’m way too old to be the intended audience of this book, so as I complain about it remember that fact. It’s a unique book with protagonist being a high school junior, Hawthorn. She’s misfit and as she tries to find the cause of an older girl’s death it becomes more and more obvious. It’s a unique look at the toll suicide takes on the living. I loved how Hawthorn’s relationship with her brother got stronger as the story ends. I kept wanting to holler at Hawthorn’s mother to pay attention to what she was doing. It was an interesting take on hippies and I enjoyed how Hawthorn turned to the hippies living in the backyard of her family’s home when she needed to talk. I am so glad I grew up in the 1960’s and didn’t have to face the mean girls of high school. I’m giving the book a high rating because any book that stays in my mind as long as this book has, is good writing about an important topic.
    • 5/5
      REVIEW: Brilliantly captures the incongruity of hating someone for who they are and wanting to be just like them. 17-year-old Hawthorn is irritated, amazed, intrigued and horrified by the story of a missing girl. Her fertile imagination bounces through countless scenarios before she is inexplicitly drawn into the life of Lizzie Lovett. She works in the same café, befriends Lizzie’s boyfriend and tries to follow in her footsteps. What she finds only adds to the mystery. The story sucks you in all the way to the last twist. This book is well worth the time to read. This is my voluntary review of the book checked out through Overdrive’s Big Library Read. DESCRIPTION, NOT REVIEW: Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett, and Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment-which means the time for speculation is now.So Hawthorn comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory way too absurd to take seriously...at first. The more Hawthorn talks, the more she believes. And what better way to collect evidence than to immerse herself in Lizzie's life? Like getting a job at the diner where Lizzie worked and hanging out with Lizzie's boyfriend. After all, it's not as if he killed her-or did he?Told with a unique voice that is both hilarious and heart-wrenching, Hawthorn's quest for proof may uncover the greatest truth is within herself.
    • 3/5
      The Hundred Lies of Lizzie LovettChelsea SedotiMy Rating⭐️⭐️⭐️▫️▫️PublisherSourcebook FirePublication Date January 3, 2017SUMMARYThe perfect blue-eyed blonde 21-year-old Lizzie Lovett has disappeared from a campsite during the night, leaving her boyfriend, Lorenzo behind. Lizzie had been the most popular and talented girl at Griffin Mills High School. Hawthorn Creely, a quirky, imaginative teen, was never a member of the Lizzie Lovett fan club. But despite not liking Lizzie, Hawthorn thought that Lizzie was perfect, Lizzie had everything, and Lizzie was everything. Hawthorn couldn't believe that something like this could happen to a girl like Lizzie. Things like this never ever happened in Griffin Mills. Hawthorn really needed to uncover the truth behind Lizzie's disappearance. She has her own crazy theory of what happened that night. Hawthorn applies for Lizzie's waitressing job at the Sunshine Cafe, and befriends Lizzie boyfriend when his comes into the diner. Hawthorn tries just about everything to figure out what happen to Lizzie. REVIEWLike Hawthorn, this book is very imaginative and yet a little quirky. The book is about Hawthorn, and yet the title, The 100 Lies of Lizzie Lovett might lead you to believe something else. Not until you step back after finishing the book do you really get the reason for the title. Many of the characters in the book are very unique. Hawthorn's dad was obsessed with Edward IV, and her vegan mom's name is Sparrow, a take-away from her hippie days at Kent State. Coincidently, Sparrow's gypsy friends show up one day, in a caravan led by an old purple school bus, and camped in Hawthorn's backyard for the duration of the book. Very quirky! Sundog, the gypsy leader, surprisingly becomes Hawthorn's most-trusted confidant. He is the only person who could make her feel good about herself. There's a huge cast of characters in the book, yet each of them is well-developed and memorable. The author, Chelsea Sedoti's writing is very easy to read and the dialogue is very natural. It's perfect for the characters in this book. The 100 Lies of Lizzie Lovett is funny and emotional, but Hawthorn's unrelenting insecurity is a little frustrating at times. This book contains so many stellar one liners! "The thing about high school is that you have to pretend you don't care what people think, even though that's all you care about." was one of my favorites. "Happiness is living in the moment and not thinking about the future at all." is another. However, "When something starts out perfect, it usually lets me down." fits Hawthorn's character perfectly. It's a good first book for Chelsea Sedoti. The ending of The 100 Lies of Lizzie Lovett makes this unique book worthwhile. Thanks to NetGalley and Sourcebook Fire for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
    • 3/5
      I enjoyed the protagonist's voice in this novel-but had believability issues beyond the whole "Lizzie is a werewolf" thing (which seemed middle gradish to me.) For example, what decent parents (which is how these are portrayed) would let their 17-year-old daughter galivant around the woods with a 25-year-old murder suspect? Lots of subplots, some morals thrown in-easy light summer read.
    • 4/5
      When teenage outcast Hawthorn Creely finds out Lizzie Lovett, a girl she didn't really know at all but spent years both envying and hating, went missing while camping with her boyfriend, she decides to look for her. She becomes obsessed with Lizzie. She comes up with a wacky idea about what happened and winds up working her old job and hanging out with her boyfriend in an attempt to find her.

      I really enjoyed the writing. The main character felt real to me. I almost don't want to admit how relatable I found her. At times the book did become long and drawn out especially towards the end. The thing I couldn't get over was how weird it was that Hawthorn and Lizzie's boyfriend were spending time together. But if that didn't happen we wouldn't have The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett, would we.
    • 4/5
      Pretty good young adult novel

      Just a girl trying to figure purveyors she is by wondering about a missing girl
    • 3/5
      A special thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Fire for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

      Hawthorn, an awkward teenager, becomes obsessed with solving the disappearance of Lizzie Lovett, a girl who mysteriously vanished while on a camping trip with her boyfriend. Her overactive imagination invents a crazy theory about what happened to Lizzie and in order to prove it, Hawthorn inserts into Lizzie's life, including taking Lizzie's job and boyfriend.

      Sedoti walks a fine line with such an unreliable narrator in Hawthorn. This coming-of-age story could come off as campy, but she pulls it off by giving Hawthorn some redeeming qualities that flesh out as the story progresses. It would be easy for the reader to assume that she is immature for her age, but in fact, it is simply lack of life experience given that she only has one friend and is therefore stunted when it comes to forming relationships.

      Without giving away the ending, the writing is raw and encapsulates what it is like to be a misfit teenager, or anyone really who is trying to find their place in the world. Sedoti captures Hawthorn's angst and emotion through her solid writing. Her character is multi-faceted from her sarcastic wit to her vulnerable interior and this is why the story can move on from Hawthorn's juvenile theory into a moving story.
    • 4/5
      Lizzie Lovett was out camping with her boyfriend when she went missing. Hawthorn Creeley, a misfit at school, becomes obsessed with finding out what could have happened to a popular girl like Lizzie. With a perfect life, why would Lizzie leave?
    • 3/5
      Hawthorn has had an interesting upbringing, with her formerly hippie mom and lost in history professor father. And while I think this works well as a piece about how it's ok to be yourself and have your own dreams. I didn't think it was successful because of how we got there. Hawthorn becomes obsessed with the disappearance of Lizzie, a girl she barely knew,that graduated from high school a few years ahead of her with her brothers class. Naturally, Lizzie's life looked picture perfect--cheering--boyfriends--looks--etc. But what Hawthorn discovers is that may have been just what Lizzie wanted them all to believe. Having her disappear while camping with her boyfriend was a great plot device, naturally everyone would suspect him. But when Hawthorn shows up at the diner where Lizzie worked and applies for her job, this is where things got muddied for me. It was weird having her insert herself into that life, on many levels.
    • 4/5
      I received an ARC of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This did not affect my opinion of the book or my review itself.Hawthorn is a teenager who doesn't seem to fit in anywhere, and who doesn't know what she wants to do with her life. So when popular Lizzie Lovett goes missing, Hawthorn sees it as an opportunity to finally live out a great adventure and solve a mystery Inserting herself in the life Lizzie has left behind, a life Hawthorn thought she so desperately wanted, she ends up learning about her own self on her quest for answers.What I Liked:First of all, the mystery is really intriguing. I wanted to know what happened to Lizzie right along with Hawthorn. Sedoti does an excellent job with the build up and resolution to the central puzzle.Sedoti also does a really good job of getting inside her characters' heads. No one comes across as a stereotype. From "mean girl" to "jock" to "loner", Sedoti makes each character three-dimensional and complex.I almost didn't get past the first few pages of this book, because I had a really hard time liking Hawthorn. But once I pushed past the initial chapter, and Hawthorn became much more of a complex character, I found myself beginning to get sucked in. Hawthorn did still irritate me at times, but she really grew on me as the story progressed.I would recommend this book. Just give it time, and don't get discouraged. To me, at least, it was well-worth the read.
    • 5/5
      Lizzie Lovett has it all: good looks, popularity, and plenty of boys lining up for her. Hawthorn Creely believes Lizzie was born with good luck and her whole life has been handed to her. Hawthorn fixates on her resentment for Lizzie as she tries to survive high school. But when Lizzie Lovett goes camping with her boyfriend and doesn't come back, everything, and everyone, changes.The story is told from Hawthorn Creely's perspective and the reader becomes very intimate with her every thought. Hawthorn is guarded, insecure, self-centered, immature, and jealous. These attributes are generally unpleasant, however, in this YA it is perfection. As an adult, I can look back on my teenage years and realize that I had these attributes sometimes in high school. Negative attributes aside, she also has a thirst for knowledge, wild imagination, a fierce independence, and a naivete that often gets the best of her. When Lizzie Lovett goes missing, Hawthorn is initially dry and arrogant. However, her fixation changes from resenting her to wanting to become more like her. She finds ways to assimilate into Lizzie Lovett's life in limbo. What I liked most about this book is the authentic nature of Hawthorn's experience. It is realistically honest and raw. She is not the hero. Everything does not go according to plan. Friends do not stay the same. People are not always what they seem. Life is not always sunshine and fairy tales. Disappointment will come, even when you work hard and try your best. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has gone through high school. Those in high school and younger may not understand (or believe) that people often change drastically after high school. High school is a time to grow into who you will be and that process is different for everyone. To whom it may concern: there is some foul language, sexually suggestive scenarios, and suicidal themes.Please note: An electronic copy of this book was generously provided for free by the Publisher via Netgalley.
    • 3/5
      Narrated by a tiresome protagonist and unnecessarily long, The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett is hard to get into. There's hardly any plot to speak of; most of the drama happens at the beginning and the end of the novel, and yet the story drags on for 300 pages in the meantime.

      Former star of Griffin Mills High School Lizzie Lovett has gone missing. Seventeen-year-old Hawthorn Creely (narrator of the story) is bored but also intrigued. She makes tactless jokes about Lizzie's disappearance, shrugs off others' concern, and yet proceeds to investigate Lizzie's life, long after everyone else in her community has gotten over Lizzie's disappearance. Hawthorn starts working at Lizzie's old job. She becomes friends with Lizzie's boyfriend, the mysterious Enzo rumored to have killed her. Convinced that Lizzie became a werewolf, Hawthorn manages to alienate nearly everyone around her — her best friend, Emily; her brother, Rush — and faces increasing ostracism at her school, where her strange theories don't help endear her to the reigning bully, Mychelle Adler.

      Once I got through the first third of the book, Hawthorn became less grating. The plotless plot grew more interesting, now that I had gotten to know the characters, quirks and all. Eventually some romantic subplots emerged to keep the story moving. But, really, I'm not sure what the buzz is about. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett didn't blow me over with its story, its writing, its characters. I grew to like Hawthorn and her messy life by the end of the novel, but the novel did not live up to the hype.

      Some notes (quotes may not reflect final version):
      —Did the novel really need to offer tacit approval of a relationship between a 17-year-old girl and a 25-year-old man?
      —I enjoyed the assorted werewolf lore Hawthorn scattered throughout
      —A few great lines, like "embarrassingly optimistic high heels"
      —Enzo: "[Lizzie] doesn't overthink anything [....]" Hawthorn: "It doesn't sound awesome. It sounds like being in a relationship with a robot."

      Note: I received an ARC from the publisher through NetGalley.
    • 5/5
      I've never identified with a character more than I did with Hawthorn Creely.
    • 3/5
      Hawthorn Creely, 17, feels like she is a high school misfit and is jealous of everyone else, especially Lizzie Lovett, a girl in her older brother Rush’s class who always seemed so popular and happy. As the story begins though, Lizzie has gone missing after a night camping with her boyfriend Enzo. Hawthorn becomes obsessed with Lizzie and finding her, convinced somehow that Lizzie is okay, and in fact more than okay - she has become a werewolf. Hawthorn wants to be Lizzie so much that she gets Lizzie’s former job as a waitress, and even takes up with Lizzie’s former boyfriend. When Lizzie is found, Hawthorn has to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about the world.Discussion: Hawthorn is self-centered, self-absorbed, immature, and jealous of anyone who has what she wants, even though, as most of the other characters point out, she never tries to do anything to change her life. In fact, she almost perfectly fits the profile of ISIS terrorist recruits, except that her thoughts of revenge are more suitable to junior high kid rather than an ISIS recruit, not to mention a 17-year-old. For example, she fantasizes about a mean girl: ““I wished Mychelle’s hair would get tangled in her homecoming queen tiara. I wished she would always weigh two pounds more than she wanted to.”Her obsession with Lizzie and devotion to the werewolf theory is beyond ridiculous, again, as everyone tries to tell her. Most of all, though, they try to shake her out of her self-absorption:Rush to Hawthorn: “When have you ever wanted to known about [my life]? I can’t say anything without getting insulted by you.”Emily to Hawthorn: “You want me to help you on your missions and listen to your thoughts, never stopping to think that maybe I have my own.”Enzo to Hawthorn: “Hawthorn, you’ve got it in your head that I’m supposed to, I don’t know, be the hero of your story. But I’m not. Life doesn’t work like that, OK? You need to let people be who they are, not who you want them to be.”One would have hoped that there could at least have been some sort of epiphany at the end, but there wasn’t much of one. This lack didn’t do much to solve the mystery of why anyone had anything to do with such a brat, much less care as much about her as did her brother, his best friend, and Hawthorn’s best friend.Evaluation: Overall, I found this to be a bizarre and unsatisfying story with a very unlikeable main character.
    • 5/5
      Hawthorn Creely has never fit in or that is the way that she feels. When Lizzie Lovett disappears while camping with her boyfriend, Hawthorn jumps at the opportunity to solve the mystery. From bizarre theories to taking over Lizzie's job and becoming involved with Lizzie's grieving boyfriend, Hawthorn is forced to face life and her own place in it.Honestly, this was a very hard book for me to read. There was nothing wrong with the book but Chelsea Sedoti is so very good at describing those awkward and lonely teenage years. She did such a good job that I could relate to Hawthorn on so many levels and wished I could go into the book to let her know that she was ok and everything would be ok. This is a beautifully written coming of age story and it is one that I will be recommending and talking about for some time to come.I received a copy of this book from the publishers for free in exchange for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      So this book.It’s hard to write a review about this book. It was fresh and excellent, but sometimes I couldn’t keep up with the main character and just skipped pages.Hawthorn Creely is a seventeen years old student which thinks she is not the typical high school girl therefore is left alone. When one of her former schoolmates which happened to be a very popular girl is gone missing, Hawthorn starts a theory about what really happened to her. To prove her theory and to overcome her long lasting jealousy and somehow hate toward that girl she starts to work when she worked and know her boyfriend so maybe she see the world as she saw and feel what her amazing life would feel.Hawthorn is strong but at the same time so vulnerable. She can’t see what she has and how other people could be interested in her if only she let them. She only thinks about how perfect Lizzie is and even when somehow she recognize the opposite she doesn’t accept it again.*Generally I enjoyed this book and thanks NetGalley for providing me an e-copy.*
    • 4/5
      Hawthorn is aptly nicknamed Thorny by Connor, her brother's best friend. She's a difficult person. When Lizzie Lovett, a girl who was several years older and seemed from the outside to live a charmed beautiful life, goes missing. Hawthorn becomes obsessed with her story. She develops a werewolf theory, she gets Lizzie's old job at a dinner, and befriends her boyfriend, Enzo. All the while she's dealing with friendship drama, bullies at school, and hippies setting up a fall camp in her back yard. Hawthorn is trying to find her way. Hawthorn gains some wisdom, grows up, but she doesn't really get any less prickly or complicated - which is good, it is what makes her interesting and a little bit endearing.