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Black Lies breaks no new ground Posted October 29 2009
With the title Little Black Lies, Tish Cohen's novel had little hope of being anything other than typical teen chick lit. The book stars Sara Black, who enrolls in the elite Anton High School for 11th grade after a sticky separation between her culinary mother and OCD janitorial father. Not exactly prestigious parentage. No wonder Sara feels the need to tell a couple lies, deny a couple relations and reinvent her past. After all, her social life is at stake. The book contains typical chick lit characters: the popular guy, the popular girl, the popular girl's follower, the laid-back chick and the social reject. Though unoriginal in many aspects, it had some clever concepts, such as the petting zoo, a couch that all the popular kids would pile onto and then get frisky. The greatest pitfall of the novel was that it had too many subplots and not enough pages. What resulted were hasty resolutions that made the book seem as if it were stumbling over itself to end. —Adaeze Ajoku, College Academy @ BC |
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