A review by shelf_love
The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge

3.0

The Lie Tree, the title and the synopsis are a bit misleading. Faith's father does not even die until you are about 120 pages into the story. The book does gets off to a good start, and then comes several chapters about how women should basically no exist, especially young ladies such as Faith. This is brow beaten into the reader for several lengthy pages. Granted, at the end those opinions and views do play into the story. It just would have been nicer to have little snippets spread throughout the book. Once you are introduced to the Lie Tree the story really starts moving along and it was a quick adventurous read. 3 stars are because it did take a bit to get started.