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Jan 05, 2011
Even if this is only half as good as the Pretty Little Liars books were, it’s going to be amazing. I can’t wait to read this when it comes out!
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Jul 10, 2011
Trameka
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Ok, let me start by saying that I'm 21 years old and I started reading this series because I love the show Pretty Little Liars.
Cover: The cover is cute with the black background and the accents of pink. However, the images of the girls are quite juvenile, which should have been a hint that the book was most likely made for a younger age group.
Characters: I felt that the characters were introduced oddly. Names were just thrown around without any indication of w More...
Cover: The cover is cute with the black background and the accents of pink. However, the images of the girls are quite juvenile, which should have been a hint that the book was most likely made for a younger age group.
Characters: I felt that the characters were introduced oddly. Names were just thrown around without any indication of w More...
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Nov 15, 2010
Mandy
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I was absolutely addicted to the television show Pretty Little Liars this past summer. So,when I heard the author of the book series the show was based on had a new YA series in the works, I quickly added the new title to my “must read list.” The Lying Game does not disappoint. It is filled with just the right amount of suspense, teen angst, and awesome clothes* that teens are sure to love. Sara Sheperd’s latest series follows down on her luck Emma. Emma’s life in her foster home is unbearable.
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Oct 03, 2011
Anne Nikoline
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The Lying Game is usually not my kind of genre, however, I must point out how much better the story is than so endless many in this genre. I only read the book because I fancied the Danish cover which I found at the library earlier today.
What annoys me with the book is how the reader is still left with many unanswered questions. I'm aware that it's necessary for the author to leave some questions unanswered for the next books in the series, but come on! You only get to know very littl More...
What annoys me with the book is how the reader is still left with many unanswered questions. I'm aware that it's necessary for the author to leave some questions unanswered for the next books in the series, but come on! You only get to know very littl More...
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Oct 02, 2011
Jianne
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The Lying Game by Sara Shepard is a mystery-packed, thrill-suspense novel that will keep you guessing and thinking till your heads hurt. Oh yeah.
The story revolves around Emma Becker, who grew up to be a foster child. When she found out that she has a twin sister, Sutton Mercer who looks exactly like her, she went in search of her hoping that she will finally find her family. However, Emma learns that Sutton is dead. Murdered. So who has murdered Sutton? In order to find out her twin's More...
The story revolves around Emma Becker, who grew up to be a foster child. When she found out that she has a twin sister, Sutton Mercer who looks exactly like her, she went in search of her hoping that she will finally find her family. However, Emma learns that Sutton is dead. Murdered. So who has murdered Sutton? In order to find out her twin's More...
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Nov 19, 2011
Elisabeth
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I wish books like this were around when I was 13. YA is so much better nowadays and there's a lot more variety.
One thing I have a slight problem with is the POV. It switches between Emma and Sutton in a disjoined way that repeatedly took me out of the story where I had to remember which sister was the first-person narrative. It's not a deal breaker, however, and I was able to fully enjoy the story in spite of an awkward format.
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One thing I have a slight problem with is the POV. It switches between Emma and Sutton in a disjoined way that repeatedly took me out of the story where I had to remember which sister was the first-person narrative. It's not a deal breaker, however, and I was able to fully enjoy the story in spite of an awkward format.
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Aug 25, 2011
Olivia
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WOW! I liked it a lot! The characters were great and there was A LOT of funny parts. There are a few spoilers through-out, so be careful when reading this :)
The beginning was a little slow for me. I didn't get that interested until she went to meet Sutton and Sutton's friends kidnapped her to that party. I was suspicious of Laurel from the beginning. I wasn't too sure about Ethan, but I was almost positive he had nothing to do with what happened to Sutton. I liked the parts when Sutt More...
The beginning was a little slow for me. I didn't get that interested until she went to meet Sutton and Sutton's friends kidnapped her to that party. I was suspicious of Laurel from the beginning. I wasn't too sure about Ethan, but I was almost positive he had nothing to do with what happened to Sutton. I liked the parts when Sutt More...
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Mar 14, 2011
Hannah
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What if someone had your face? What if they went missing? What if you were mistaken to live her life as your own? That is what happens to Emma, when she getts a message from Sutton, the girl with her face who ends up not turning up. Emma starts to fear for her own life as well as Sutton's. Then, a shy guy named Ethan realizes her secret. Is it a coincedence? or proof of a killer? No one is who they seem.
I have been dying to read Shepard's new series since I heard about it. I did not want t More...
I have been dying to read Shepard's new series since I heard about it. I did not want t More...
Oct 10, 2011
Anna
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I so wanted to like this book even more.
The Lying Game has become my new obsession TV show and I'm loving it. But reading the book has been a bit off. I kept trying to give characters in the book the faces and the attitudes of the characters in the show but it felt different.
The book tells the story of a girl living in foster care system who discovers she has a twin sister, tries to contact her but when she walks into her sister's life she discovers things are not as good as More...
The Lying Game has become my new obsession TV show and I'm loving it. But reading the book has been a bit off. I kept trying to give characters in the book the faces and the attitudes of the characters in the show but it felt different.
The book tells the story of a girl living in foster care system who discovers she has a twin sister, tries to contact her but when she walks into her sister's life she discovers things are not as good as More...
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Dec 26, 2011
Brittany
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Emma is a foster kid. She's been tossed around from home to home ever since her mother abandoned her. In her latest home, the mother agreed to let her stay and finish out her Senior year, even though Emma will turn eighteen soon. However the foster mom's real son isn't too keen on sharing with Emma and frames her for some money he stole from his mom. On top of that he found an online video of a girl being strangled, a girl who looks exactly like Emma, and the foster mom doesn't like this one bit
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Jul 01, 2011
I didn't know this was going to be a series.... I'm a bit confused how it's going to be stretched out over multiple books, because even when I had a chapter or two left, I fully expected everything to resolve, then... it didn't.
It was well written, and definitely intriguing, but I sort of feel like I'm not trendy enough for this series. A lot of the brand names mentioned I'm sure are supposed to be famous, but it did nothing for me because well, I don't spend money on things like shoes More...
It was well written, and definitely intriguing, but I sort of feel like I'm not trendy enough for this series. A lot of the brand names mentioned I'm sure are supposed to be famous, but it did nothing for me because well, I don't spend money on things like shoes More...
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Jan 08, 2012
Amy
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The writing in this book killed me. It really wasn't very good. The sentence structure was poor and repetitive. Just in general, the authors writing style ticked me off. I never experienced what the characters felt, heard, smelt.
I also noticed that this book was produced for this time, and will probably not survive into the future. If it does .. the readers aren't going to know what the author's talking about. There were a lot of current, specific culture references and mention of More...
I also noticed that this book was produced for this time, and will probably not survive into the future. If it does .. the readers aren't going to know what the author's talking about. There were a lot of current, specific culture references and mention of More...
Dec 21, 2011
Rebecca
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While I continue to read the Pretty Little Liars books, I have long since given up on the TV show. There were too many people and they all looked the same and I couldn't tell anyone apart. So far, not true with The Lying Game (though I did think the two blondes were the same person and it took me a moment to figure out that they were NOT the same, whoops!) so I decided to pick up the book. The book is quiet different from the TV show! I can't wait to see how it unrolls differently too. I am liki
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Dec 20, 2011
Joshua
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Promises are important.
In The Lying Game, the book starts off with the main character, Emma learning that her twin sister, who she never knew existed, has been murdered. Emma is now stuck in the life of Sutton. Only one person knows that she's lying and that is her sister's killer.
This book is phenomenal (you know there's a but coming...). The last half of the book kept me reading for two straight hours. The tension of a twin stuck in a world she's unfamiliar with and ass More...
In The Lying Game, the book starts off with the main character, Emma learning that her twin sister, who she never knew existed, has been murdered. Emma is now stuck in the life of Sutton. Only one person knows that she's lying and that is her sister's killer.
This book is phenomenal (you know there's a but coming...). The last half of the book kept me reading for two straight hours. The tension of a twin stuck in a world she's unfamiliar with and ass More...
Nov 21, 2011
Torieehs
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The characters in the Lying Game are very sly, snobby and rude. All the characters have their own ways in doing things. Some of the characters are flat and some are very well rounded. The main two characters, the twins are the total opposites. Emma turns out to be a huge trouble maker that people are afraid of and Hannah is this so called “goody two shoe”, but they all have somewhat of pure evil in them, they also have this to do not mess with me attitude.
The book The Lying Game had man More...
The book The Lying Game had man More...
Oct 04, 2011
Madison
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The only reason I read this book was because I read all 100 zillion books in the series "Pretty Little Liars." "The Lying Game" was very much like "Pretty Little Liars". It was a very difficult book to get into at the beginning and didn't really pull me in at all. The end few chapters in my opinion were the only interesting parts in the whole book. Her first series was mildly entertaining but her books are extremely repetitive. Please don't use the same kind of char
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Sep 29, 2011
Keysersozed
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I'm so angry at myself for getting sucked into another Sara Shepard series.
The premise however, was so interesting and I'm desperate for teen sleuthing/mysteries right now that I grabbed this and forgot all about what I learned from Pretty Little Liars - THE MYSTERY ISN'T SOLVED IN THE FIRST BOOK. Nor the second, nor the third etc etc etc
I gave up on Pretty Little Liars after Book #2 when I was still left without any major plot developments, strung along with only more and mo More...
The premise however, was so interesting and I'm desperate for teen sleuthing/mysteries right now that I grabbed this and forgot all about what I learned from Pretty Little Liars - THE MYSTERY ISN'T SOLVED IN THE FIRST BOOK. Nor the second, nor the third etc etc etc
I gave up on Pretty Little Liars after Book #2 when I was still left without any major plot developments, strung along with only more and mo More...
Sep 16, 2011
J.Elle
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This book completely confused me. I couldn’t figure out if it was the start of a series and I was just being extraordinarily daft and couldn’t understand what was going on, or if I couldn’t understand what was going on because the book was written poorly, or if I had somehow wound up with one of the latter books in a series. Obviously now, looking above, I can see that it's the first book in a series. Here is the premise: identical twins were separated at birth and never met. One of the twin
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Sep 13, 2011
Sophia
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I don't really know what I expected from this book. The concept was certainly very interesting, but I'm still not sure of how I felt about this book.
Sara Shepard's writing in The Lying Game was better than her writing in the Pretty Little Liars books, I'll admit, but even with that, it was still mediocre. Maybe I'm just so used to super phenomenal writing (such as Veronica Roth, Cassandra Clare, J.K. Rowling, etc.) but this book wasn't really memorable.
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Sara Shepard's writing in The Lying Game was better than her writing in the Pretty Little Liars books, I'll admit, but even with that, it was still mediocre. Maybe I'm just so used to super phenomenal writing (such as Veronica Roth, Cassandra Clare, J.K. Rowling, etc.) but this book wasn't really memorable.
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Sep 12, 2011
Jessica
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I was very disappointed with The Lying Game. Awhile ago I read the Pretty Little Liars Series and enjoyed it so I figured I would enjoy this one. However I don't think it lived up to all the hype. The Lying Game was anticlimaxtic and a bit sloppy. It was predictable. I saw everything coming, especially the ending. Also, I really think the super-secret-twin thing has been played out. Also while PLL kept you on the edge of your seat, The Lying Game just bored me. I didn't like the plot line or th
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Sep 11, 2011
Tiny Pants
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Really this one was like a 3.5 for me. You know I'm always a critic, so here's what I didn't like first...
I DID like that for once the series is set neither in preppy New England/New York (admittedly, where I'm from) nor in posh SoCal (admittedly, where I live now). But the geography is way off! They keep claiming they are in Tucson, namedropping U of A, etc... but then they toss in that Sutton lives in Scottsdale, which is next to Phoenix. Come on Alloy copy editors, you can do bett More...
I DID like that for once the series is set neither in preppy New England/New York (admittedly, where I'm from) nor in posh SoCal (admittedly, where I live now). But the geography is way off! They keep claiming they are in Tucson, namedropping U of A, etc... but then they toss in that Sutton lives in Scottsdale, which is next to Phoenix. Come on Alloy copy editors, you can do bett More...
Sep 10, 2011
Angela
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The main reason why I decided to read The Lying Game is because I watched some of the episodes of the new TV series based off of The Lying Game. The show was mediocre and cliched, but I was still interested. Too bad, the TV series is loosely based off of the novel and has a better plot.
I admit that this plot is not very original. I have seen media with a similar plot released a year or two before The Lying Game was released. An example is Arisa, a manga by Natsumi Ando. In this series More...
I admit that this plot is not very original. I have seen media with a similar plot released a year or two before The Lying Game was released. An example is Arisa, a manga by Natsumi Ando. In this series More...
Sep 04, 2011
Sara
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Quick, easy read. I did not read Pretty Little Liars, but I have seen the show. What made me read this was because I've been watching the Lying Game on ABC Family, and I have to say that in this case, the show trumps the books. Sara Shepard's writing style here is just a little too quick -- no chance to become really invested in Emma, weird ghost Sutton who narrates, or Laurel, or any of them. It seemed Shepard and her editor compiled all the "exciting" or "suspenseful" momen
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Sep 03, 2011
Reina
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I have not read Sara's hit series, Pretty Little Liars, so this was my first taste of her writing.
I liked it (hence the 3 stars) and actually, although this isnt exactly about the writing, I find the covers really appealing ( and those of the PPL series too).
This is some good, quick, light reading.
The characters are slightly 1 dimensional (the most interesting characters for me are probably Ethan and Sutton herself- probably because we're trying to figure out wh More...
Aug 27, 2011
Initially I was pretty wary of this book, rolling my eyes thinking “really Pretty Little Liars, and now The Lying Game?” While I’ve gone a bit backwards with the Pretty Little Liars series, forgoing the books to watch the tv show that departs from the books’ plot, I couldn’t find much of reason to read this new series. It just seemed like an echo of Pretty Little Liars. But after a friend of mine recommended it, I decided to give The Lying Game a chance.
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Despite the glaring similariti More...
Aug 10, 2011
Sarah
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I really don't watch much TV (I'd much rather read books), but some of the new ABC Family shows look good, including the TV show based off of this series of books. I wanted to read The Lying Game before the first episode airs in a couple of weeks, though now that I've finished the book and have seen a couple of previews for the show, it looks like the book and the show will be very, very different.
The narration of this story really threw me off at first--in fact, I had to go back and r More...
The narration of this story really threw me off at first--in fact, I had to go back and r More...
Aug 10, 2011
Stacy
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I started reading The Lying Game by Sara Shepard because I am a big fan of the Pretty Little Liars series. I wanted to read something similar but not what I was watching on tv. I wanted a new scandal and a new set of scandalous teens.
The plot of the story intrigued me, even after reading the book I still believe the story to be more interesting then Pretty Little Liars.
The structure of the story didnt leave me bored however the frustartion rang when just as you are coming to the clima More...
The plot of the story intrigued me, even after reading the book I still believe the story to be more interesting then Pretty Little Liars.
The structure of the story didnt leave me bored however the frustartion rang when just as you are coming to the clima More...
Aug 02, 2011
Didreams
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I think more appropriately 3.5 or an 7.5/10.
I was a bit closed-minded when I first picked up this book because I was expecting it to just be some really trashy "Gossip Girl"-esque type novel. However, once I started getting into the plot, the mystery and suspense Shepard manages to subtlely add was a clever touch. It was enjoyable reading something that was a typical high-school drama based novel, but with a touch of something different.
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I was a bit closed-minded when I first picked up this book because I was expecting it to just be some really trashy "Gossip Girl"-esque type novel. However, once I started getting into the plot, the mystery and suspense Shepard manages to subtlely add was a clever touch. It was enjoyable reading something that was a typical high-school drama based novel, but with a touch of something different.
Because of the high-school s More...
Aug 01, 2011
StorySeekers
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Jul 27, 2011
Danielle
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I haven't read any of the Pretty Little Liars books, but when I went to a book evailuation I thought this book looked interesting. I started to read it and then I put it down for a while. I wasn't in the mood to start a series and then have to wait and wait for the sequal to come out to find out what happens. Once I finally continued to read it I was happy that I did.
Sutton and Emma are identical twins who know nothing about each other. Sutton was adopted by wealthy parents and Emma More...
Sutton and Emma are identical twins who know nothing about each other. Sutton was adopted by wealthy parents and Emma More...
