Sara Shepard

Strait lying

Hannah Yang

The Lying Game is about two long-lost twins leading very different lives. When Emma, our protagonist, finds Sutton and reaches out to her, she is unaware that Sutton had been murdered. Now, it's up to her to piece together who her twin's murderer is, while pretending to be Sutton. However, Sutton clearly was very different from her, and she struggles to keep up Sutton's b*tchy facade.

I read this book after randomly coming across it in a school library, and I knew it was on my to-read list. I had a lot of hope for the plot. It sounded like it would be really intense and intriguing, with suspense at every corner. Well.. it was alright, but nothing special. I will most likely only read the sequels if I have nothing else to read, which is probably not going to happen. I felt like the premise was rather shallow and one-sided, and there were some overly dramatized moments? It just didn't do the trick for me.

However, I'm sure this is a book that teenage girls and fans of Pretty Little Liars will enjoy. It just wasn't exactly for me!

Kimber Severance 

I thought this book would be kind of lame in the stereotypical, "modern teen drama" kind of way. But I found myself getting rather absorbed in the mystery, and craving to find out "who-done-it" ;)

Lysha Taynish

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this. It wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t good either.

Destiny J Tamayo

I read this after i watched the first episode. They are not similar at all. But the book is still really good, but the show has more betrayal.

Jade Flynn

“Sutton's dead. Tell no one. Keep playing along... or you're next.”

Samantha

I really liked PLL, and honestly, I really liked the Lying Game, too. Books like these are generally my guilty pleasures.
I only watched one episode of TLG halfway through reading the book, and the show was completely different (in the show, Sutton was alive and Emma actually got to meet her. 

The premise of the book is really interesting. The story is told through the first person POV of Sutton's ghost/subconscious? whatever you want to call it, since she is dead. The only thing that annoys me about this is the author occasionally wrote something along the lines "I watched as Emma went through Sutton's closet" instead of writing "I watched as Emma went through my closet." She would usually do everything in first person possessive, but other times Sutton referred to herself in the third person, which was really weird. 

Overall though, I liked it a lot

Zoe Smolen

Definitely another addicting series from Sara Shepard! I wasn't sure how I would feel about these books. But the first in the series was a great read and threw me many different twists and turns! I can't wait to see wait the sequels hold!

Elad Schulman

This book was a complete guilty pleasure. It was super creepy, but I enjoyed the intensity of it all. The way the book was narrated was new and interesting, and it added something to the book. I can't wait to see how the series continues in the next book.

Sina

Irgendwie ist kaum was passiert, aber gleichzeitig gefällt mir die Idee auch. Muss mir noch überlegen, ob ich mir die ziemlich große! Reihe wirklich antun will...

Jessica 

Blog | Twitter | Instagram | "I understood we used to be close. But they were like books I'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I couldn't tell you now what they'd been about."

In true Sara Shepard fashion The Lying Game is filled with style, wit and mystery to the highest degree. All made simple in its fast pace and entertaining tone. Armed with her easy-to-read and suspenseful style, Shepard glides through the first installment of her under appreciated series smartly and leaves readers with a heavy, dark and vivid image of what is yet to come.

Much like Pretty Little Liars, the series starts with a spooky and mysterious tone: death and possible betrayal is at a high. Sara Shepard will fuck with your mind and pull the rug out from under you every time you think you've got it solved. For The Lying Games, our narration is split into twos: Emma’s thoughts in life and Sutton’s in the afterlife. It’s a refreshing twist to her writing and Sara covers ground pretty well with both girls thoughts.

Emma Paxton is a kind, intelligent, sarcastic and down-on-her-luck teenager who is fast approaching her eighteenth birthday. Ever since her mother, Becky, left her to fend for herself at the age of five she has bounced back and forth between foster homes. 

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