“Sweet little lies” is a novel written by Lauren Conrad and it was published in 2009. She has also published a few other novels and beauty books.
The book is about a girl named Jane Roberts who is no longer an average girl, because she and her best friend, Scarlett Harp, have started their own reality show called L.A. Candy. After wild photos are leaked to the press, she finds herself in the middle of a scandal. Jane turns to her new BFF, Madison, unaware that she is scheming behind her back. The two girls, Scarlett and Jane, become more and more distant from each other. And Scarlett has a scandal of her own. So the plot is full of drama.
The narrator of the book is mainly Jane Roberts herself, but occasionally it’s an omniscient narrator. I think the theme of the book is that “the lies are only as sweet as the people telling them” and that you can’t always believe what you hear or see. The author, Lauren Conrad, has had her own reality TV-show, and I have watched it so I can say that the book reminded me many times about the happenings in the show.
The topics of the book are typical and close to the girls my age, so the book was easy to read. The text was easy to identify with, and every once in a while I found myself imagine myself in the situations of the book and forgetting that I was reading English. Even though the author was quite young when she wrote the book, the text wasn’t too simple. But I liked the book very much, especially because I could immerse myself in the book without noticing the time passing by.
You can see some stereotypes in the characters. For example Scarlett is a girl who doesn’t date. She doesn’t fall in love with a guy. She gives a wrong name or a wrong number after she has spent a night with a guy. But Jane, she loves being in a relationship and she is maybe a little wide-eyed sometimes, because she likes to see the good in people.
Enough said, I want to recommend this book (and probably the other books of her too) to the girls who like drama. I myself love drama in books and movies. Especially when the characters are at the same age as me. You can tell that the book is written from a girl’s perspective, but you can still read it even if you’re a guy. If you want to.