Lieable

by Ishita Agarwal

All Janya wants to do is survive the daily battleground that is 8th grade. She wants none of the complications that arrive with backstabbing ‘friends’, mind-boggling boys, or skipped classes. The universe, clearly, thinks differently. But surely there must be some reason she landed up with the bizarre ability to detect liars every time they give away a fib? As if being a teenager wasn’t hard enough already…

Ishita Agarwal was born in Panchkula and has lived in a number of cities before returning close to her birthplace, Chandigarh, where she is currently studying. She spends her free time reading, playing the guitar and blasting away the bad guys in MarioKart and Legend of Zelda on her Nintendo Wii. If she could choose to be gifted with one superpower, it would be flying, as she would rather soar in the open sky than in a claustrophobic aeroplane. Apart from closed flying contraptions, she is terrified of dogs. Her writing influences include John Green, Meg Cabot and Louise Rennison. She hopes that, in the years to come, Indian teenagers will have access to a wider range of books they can identify with. Lieable is Ishita’s first published work.

149 pages, Paperback

First published December 7, 2013

About the author

Ishita Agarwal has spent most of her teenage years in Chandigarh, India. A software engineer by profession, she is passionate about storytelling. She started writing her first novel as a lonely fifth-grader and has been writing thereafter. Her debut novel Lieable was published in 2013. Her hobbies include reading, playing video games (including The Sims 3, of course), watching in-depth fictional character analysis videos on YouTube and baking desserts. She hopes that Indian teenagers will have access to a wider range of books they can identify with in the coming years. Teen Machine is her second published novel.

Reviews

[Ishita Agarwal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Umm. I wrote this book. So I guess it's pretty much okay.
Hooray?

[Radhika Taneja · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was just so relatable; right from the school-life problems to the teenage attitude- everything was just perfect. The plot was also very unique and new. This book was rather like a personal diary which made it more interesting. All in all this had everything in it; however one issue-I feel- with the writing was the limited use of language. The author could have been more expressive by using alternative words. She could have taken the advantage of English having a very diverse vocabulury.

[Inas Grover · Rating 5 out of 5]

ITS AMAZING <3

[Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I didn't like the book but then my young teen tells me it's not written for me but for her and that she loved it. Hence the 4 star. Deducted 1 coz I didnt care much for it, I think a good book must have an universal appeal inspite of the age of the reader

[Samarth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Quick read.A story of a schoolgirl and her Teenage problems.

[Swapnil Patel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked the plot of the book where a young girl somehow gets the power of detecting people's lies. But she doesn't end up doing anything significant with that power. Also, I am a sucker for endings that make me think about life and stuff. I thought the girl would realize that having the ability to detect people's lies is doing more harm to her than good or something like that and she would rather not have the power... but nothing of that sort happens. This is a good book for someone of age 10; not exactly YOUNG ADULT.

[Arya · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was so relatable. My mind works in almost exactly the same way, and I really, really recommend it to anybody who is tired of reading books always set in the US or some other place, like I was.

[Areeba · Rating 3 out of 5]

cool...