A thrilling YA thriller that leaps from suburban England to the favelas of Rio.  The Truth & Lies of Ella Black has all the necessary ingredients to fly you through the pages and keep you wanting more. 

Ella Black is an ordinary school girl living in Kent with her two best friends. She's quiet and nice and often over looked when the popular girls are around. 

She kills small animals that her cat brings home because the voice in her head tells her to. 

The voice in her head is Bella, or Bad Ella. Ella has to work very hard in front of people to keep Bella under control. Not even her parents know about how bad Bella wants to be. So when Ella is pulled out of school by her parents and driven to the airport and subsequently lands in Rio de Janiero, she's certain her parents have found out her dark secret. 

Only, her parents have a secret far worse that they have been keeping from Ella. After the best night of her life with an American boy she met at the hotel, Ella's world tumbles apart. On receiving devastating news, and lashing out in violence, Ella flees and runs away to the favelas of Rio. What ensues is an intense rollercoaster of subterfuge and duplicity. 

The Truth & Lies of Ella Black is a dark force to be reckoned with. There's just the right amount of teen angst, romance and identity crisis without bordering onto Gossip Girl territory. The twist at the end was brilliant although I felt that the epilogue was unnecessary (no spoilers!).