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In the Blood by Lisa Unger
5 Stars
From The Book:
Liar, liar, pants on fire . . . College senior Lana Granger has told so many lies about her past that the truth seems like a distant, cloudy nightmare. But she meets her match when she begins babysitting for a volatile, manipulative eleven-year-old boy. Soon after Lana takes the job, her close friend Beck mysteriously disappears. Lana instantly begins fabricating stories - to friends, to police, to herself. Why doesn't her account jibe with those of eye-witnesses? Lana will do anything to bury the truth about that night ... and about her life. But someone else knows her secrets. And he's dying to tell.
My Thoughts:
You won't get very far into the book before you know that you have a winner in your hands and you might as well prepare for late, late nights of reading. Well we all have to make sacrifices you know:)
This author is a master at creating psychologically damaged characters....and Lana is no exception. Narrated from Lana's perspective... we soon learn that she is seen as a compulsive liar. By her own descriptions of events it soon becomes clear that she can give "mentally unstable" a completely new meaning... and It doesn't stop there. Many of the other characters fall into the "unstable" category. Luke is eleven years old and is way beyond his age with the knowledge he would be expected to have... and his behavior is so off the wall that he has been asked to leave almost every school he has attended. If two aren't enough for you we have Professor Langdon Hewes. He comes across at first as kind and caring but before long the hairs on the back of your neck let you know that all is not as it seems. Even the missing girl is manipulative and abrasive.
It's a book that will remain with you long after the last page is read and these psychopaths are once again safely enclosed between the covers of the book.
