Liar meets Romeo and Juliet in this Shakespeare-inspired young adult novel about whether to trust yourself when everyone is telling you your instincts are wrongβfor fans of Holly Black, Laini Taylor, and Black Swan , by New York Times bestselling author Jacqueline West.
Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented, and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy who she feels like she knowsβbut that's impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Night's Dream , in which she's starring, she lies to her sister, her mom, and her doctorsβsheβs fine, she says. Sheβs fine, sheβs fine, sheβs fine. But then on her first day back, she takes a seat in class . . . next to the mysterious boy. Queasy with anxiety ("I canβt see you ," she hisses at him, "because youβre not really here "), Jaye realizes this boy is, in fact, real. And he has no idea what she's talking about. Caught between this fascinating, empathetic new kid and her childhood friend turned recent love interest, Jaye begins to notice unnerving similarities between her circumstances and those of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays. Tingling banter and clandestine meet-ups give way to darker, muddier incidents. As things escalate to a frightening pitch, how much of what's happening is real, how much is in Jaye's head, and how much does it matter as she's hurtling toward a fateful end over which she seems to have no control?
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