I love this series. They engage me more and more with each new installment and I wait the seconds for the next.

It's been seven months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. As Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; and Sam against Drake, who is back from the dead and ready to finish where he and Sam left off. And all the while deadly rumors are raging like the fire itself, spread by the prophetess Orsay and her companion, Nerezza. They say that death is a way to escape the FAYZ. Conditions are worse than ever and kids are desperate to get out. But are they desperate enough to believe that death will set them free? Lies was a good midpoint for the series as the events are getting much more complicated, which I liked. I don't think folks are generally going to look to a review of the third book in a six book series to help them decide whether or not to give the series as a whole a try, but in case you are that person who really wants to know if their investment is going to pay off: it will. I can't speak for the rest, but so far this has been my favourite of the series. The elements of the preceding books — the social unrest and horror in these kids' lives, the relationships they've developed, the new abilities they possess, and how the Big Bad factors into and manipulates all of these things — all reach a sort of equilibrium that serves to tell a very solid and affecting story. I loved the morally grey character choices and the character developments for the major and minor characters.

Read this review, and many more on my blog October Tune! After reading Hunger, and not liking it very much, I was very reluctant to read the rest of the series. Still, when I was in Amsterdam and I saw Lies on the discount shelf at American Book Center, I decided to take it with me just because. I have to admit, I wasn't really looking forward to reading Lies, mainly because Hunger had disappointed me a bit. But I can't stand it when I don't finish a series, so eventually I just got myself a copy of Lies because I really wanted to know how the story goes on. I got through Lies a lot quicker than Hunger and I liked it a lot more as well. Maybe it had to do with the fact that Lies was a bit thinner than the previous two books (Gone had 558 pages, Hunger had 590 pages and Lies only 446). The writing was very good, as usual, I just enjoy Michael Grant's writing a lot, but personally I would have loved a bit less POV's in the series. Especially since every book has new characters that weren't there in the previous books. In Lies, we're introduced to five new characters who live on one of the islands trapped in the FAYZ. I liked reading about them, but I was just a tiny bit annoyed because there were another five characters I needed to remember in the upcoming books. Of course, there are also still the original characters; Sam, Astrid, Little Pete, Quinn, Caine, Diana, etc. And I liked reading about them (okay I hated reading about Caine, but still). They all have issues, like the fights Sam and Astrid have, the fact that Caine and Diana and the other Coates kids are nearly starving to death; and I liked them for that. They weren't perfect, Astrid wasn't the perfect 'genius' that she was supposed to be, Sam wasn't the perfect hero that everyone thought he was, but that didn't matter. I liked them. And honestly, it would pain me to see any one of them leaving (yes, even Caine, though he's just a pain in the arse). Lies is also the first book in the series, where we hear about people on the outside of the FAYZ, which made me really happy. I do kind of hope we'll be hearing more from them, but for some reason I think that's not going to happen, oh well, a girl can hope! I was also very annoyed by the Human Crew in this book. It reminded me a lot of those people inside the bus in the Midnight episode of Doctor Who. It shows you how horrible humans can be during a situation like this, and I think Grant did a VERY good job at it with the Human Crew. Every time I read about them wanting to kill the 'freaks' I cringed and wrote down I wanted Zil to be punished. In the end, I am really happy with Lies because it means I will probably be less reluctant to finish the rest of the series. I definitely recommend this series to anyone who wants to read a nice dystopia story that isn't a trilogy!

I find these book to be very entertaining. They're fast paste and have good individual stories; at the end it's interesting how the author pulls them all together. I do find all the books to be the same, in a way, not much surprise at the end of the books. I feel they can get long, and I end up putting them down for a while. However, when i'm in the mood to read them they're amazing. But Caine and Diana need to get there shit together. I wanna see them as a real couple so badly. urg.

This series is crazy. And I love it.

So, is it all a lie?

This book I loved 10x more than Hunger and Gone. I found this plot and characters a lot more interesting then in the pervious books. In Hunger and Gone I struggled to read the books and then ended up in reading slumps, but I thought I would give this book a chance and it blew me away. Definitely going to finish the series now!

Another great addition to the series. I don't have much to say here except that Grant has crafted a very good story, particularly because the series comprises many books. I don't feel like the series is slowing down, and all of the characters are becoming more interesting. The book posed a bunch of new questions, and I'm looking forward to exploring more of them.