So here is pretty much a summary of Perfect Lie. The book starts off with Trish and Lie going to a party as Lie trys to fit in with Trish and her crowd of douche bags. Lie meets Abel there, they smoke pot together, then they go play spin the bottle, Brock who is Lies supposed boyfriend gets brought up by Trish, and Abel kisses Trish instead of Lie when the bottle Lie spun lands on him. Lie gets all butthurt about it...after about 3 hours of knowing him tops...and what does she do?? Drugs!!! Pills to be exact. And guess what? She didn't even know what they were! But hey. If Trish does it...
Abel gets worried and has Lie stay the night in his room, then they go out for breakfast, Lie figures out Abel used to deal drugs, Abel invites himself over, and that's how Lie and Abel become friends. Trish and her merry band of douche dags talk Abel and Lie into going out, where shocker...Lie does more drugs because Trish did and they were offered. Abel takes her home and takes care of her blah blah blah poor Lie all helpless and needing saved.
One day Abel is over hanging out with Lie and somehow he and Trish end up setting up a date, then going out. At this point we notice the obvious feelings Lie and Abel have but Abel still thinks there is a Brock in the picture even though Lie was abandoned by this Brock guy somehow and so far that's all we know from Lies memories. After a few dates and over hearing Trish talking about something that once again hurts Lies feelings, Lie decides to barrow Skankzillas clothes and go out and get drunk and make more poor choices. Abel ditches his date and saves the day again. Lie stays with him, they hang out the next day, have a sexy scene on the couch that they actually don't even kiss in, Trish comes home, talks mild trash about Lie, then Abel goes with Trish to her room all while Lie pretends to be asleep. Abel tells Lie they didnt have sex. Abel and Lie fight. Abel then sleeps with Trish while Lie is in the next room. Which pissed me off to no end and I will explain why in a while.
After that things progress pretty much the same way, with Abel saving Lies ass after Lie tries to hook-up with a random dude at a party everyone's at, then Abel and Lie make up, we find out Brock is in prison, Abel parents are dead and that's why he won't go back home, and then Lie invites Abel to her see her therapist with her so she can tell him what happened. They're at the therapists office and she finally reveals that in Brocks messed-up way of trying to protect her he did a school shooting trying to kill all of Lies bullies. He told her to stay home but she didn't and she got shot.
Now for the real ending. It's a huge plot twist which I normally like but no. Not this time. You ready?? OK....here goes nothing...
THEY ARE ALL FUCKING DEAD!!!
She was actually killed in the shooting, she's in some weird afterlife place, and Abel knew the whole time that she was actually dead. Which brings me back to WHY EXACTLY DID HE HAVE TO SLEEP WITH TRISH THEN??? HE KNEW!!! HE KNEW SHE DIDNT KNOW SHE WAS DEAD YET AND IF HE COULD JUST LET HER FIGURE IT OUT THEN...POOF HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!! BUT NOOOOOO. Turns out Brock shot her, then shot himself, and now she's dead. Abel and Lie figure their shit out, and after she visits Brock in dead person jail to tell him she forgives him, her and Abel are able to move forward with eachother.
The end.
All done.
That's how it ends.
Yup.
Pissed me right off.
So that is pretty much it, I think it's a pretty accurate summary. Small things that were unimportant or had nothing to do with the story I left out but honestly you didn't miss a thing.
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