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What I saw and how I lied, was a phenomonel book. It had the perfect amount of mystery and romance, and a twist you would never come to happen. All in a simple book.

This book takes place in the 1940's and tells a tradgic tale of Evie Spooner, a fifteen-year-old girl living in Queens, a small yet nice town. A child of Bevery Spooner, and a man she never really met, her life was never full...antil now. Previous to WW II, Evie's mother had married a charming man, named Joe Spooner, quite a catch fo him, Bev's a dish. Well, Joe's moping lands the happy family in Palm Beach, Floida...in the off season. They had landed in a ghost town, and this is already a bad start. It's amazing how you can go from being not bored at all, to bored out of your mind in the time it takes to tie your shoe.

But soon, Evie meets a "hunk", an ex G-I named Peter Coleridge. He's gorgeous, loaded, and older. Soon though, there's an awful happening, and Evie is surrounded by lies. Someone has to be redeamed, someone betrayed...but who?

What I Saw and How I Lied is a real page-turner, and will have young readers reading through the night. It has a great theme, though I found it too short. I would have liked about 300 pages more, but, it's not my choice. All I can say is, I loved this book, and it kept me reading for endless moments, and with dashes of almost all genres, is sure to keep anyone interested. The ending is a knockout, a surprise...and to find out, I guess you'll just have to read What I saw and How I Lied and see what I mean.