The Lie

by Grace Netanya

The Lie, book one of The Zero Sum Game series, is a groundbreaking mixed media project from prodigy artist and author, Grace Netanya. This completely hand drawn graphic novel contains over two hundred fully illustrated pages interspersed with over forty pages of traditional written fiction. Meet Elizabeth Montclair, a girl living in the most peaceful, orderly era in history. One People. One religion. One God. Except, she sees the truth. She has spent her entire life in hiding, in fear of being found out for what she really is. But when a mysterious man drags her into a game of revenge with human souls at stake, Liz finds that there may be many more secrets to her dark past then she ever imagined. Trapped between two worlds, a united society bent on destroying her and an alternate reality entrenched in a supernatural war, Liz races against the clock to reveal life to those who are dead...… While there’s still time.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 4, 2016

Reviews

[Bren Ahlstrom · Rating 4 out of 5]

The illustrations are superb. Being an English teacher, I am impressed by the diligence taken by a teenage girl to write this. It was beautiful!