Two Truths and a Lie (The Lying Game, #3)

Two Truths and a Lie (The Lying Game #3)

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Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega. When the gorgeous and mysterious Thayer returns to town, Emma has to move fast to figure out wheth...more
Hardcover, 304 pages
Published February 7th 2012 by HarperTeen
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Bernardo
Lame.
Roline
OHMY! I absolutely loved The Lying Game and Never Have I Ever. I don't know but I noticed that this series is just like Pretty Little Liars. Someone was killed, Suspects, Secrets and stuffs...

So far I liked what I read so I'd like to watch this series (if it even becomes one (; )....
Aly
Apr 06, 2012 Aly rated it 3 of 5 stars
Shelves: ya, mystery





Is there a recurring pattern here or is it just me? Emma ("Sutton") picks someone to blame due to suspicious motives, the Actual Sutton ghost has a memory flashback, marking that person as the supposed killer. Outstanding evidence proves against that person and in the end....Its not them. They've been proven innocent by the continuation of the same memory Sutton Ghost had or something else.
Let's just hope for the sake of our sanity that Hide and seek is the last book in the series.
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Heidi Hardin
Jun 27, 2012 Heidi Hardin rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Anyone who loves Lying Game, PLL, or a good murder mystery
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Ok. I really loved this book. However, it had a very predictable ending. I mean, I am very familiar with Shepard's writing style bc of PLL, so maybe that was it, but I totally knew that Thayer was NOT the killer. It was obvious. I LOVED that she gave sutton visions from right before she was murdered. THAT was awesome bc we are getting to see how it all unfolds. I have my suspicious on who it is, so... we will see if I am right. Loved loved LOVED this book. :)
Elise
Well, I can't say that I ever expected much when I began reading this series.

I began watching the show when it first came out and I've since stopped watching, more due to my schedule than anything else. But I was bored one night, had a free copy of the book, and decided to read it and the following two out of curiosity. They're quick reads - four hours tops, maybe - and I was intrigued, given that they're pretty popular as of late.

And here's the thing: this is a series that does not need this ma...more
Ash
All signs point to Thayer in Two Truths and a Lie, the third installment in The Lying Game series. After Thayer's surprise "attack" and subsequent arrest, Emma tries to gather evidence against him to prove he killed Sutton. But did he? Or is it someone closer to Sutton who did the deed? Maybe her sister Laurel?

All dissenters beware! I actually like this series. Honestly, it isn't like Pretty Little Liars at all. It might actually be more simpler, albeit Shepard's thing with twins aside. I like h...more
Amy Wang1
It doesn't feel good to die and watch your long lost twin pretend to be you while you aren't able to do anything about it. That's just like a person replacing you to live with your parents, hang out with your friends, and go to your school. The thing is, your death revolves around a murderer who is close to your twin.
It's up to Emma Paxton to solve the mystery of her twin. One by one suspects get crossed out. Emma finds out that before her twin died, she had a secret relationship with someone...more
Jessica Suwala
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Tiny Pants
I just noticed on Goodreads that this series is on track to have at least three more books, which honestly surprised me. The only thing that got killed in this book was time (both in the sense of my time spent reading it, and within the fictive universe of the book itself). Even the way it kicks off with a recap that feels almost Babysitter's Club-esque (you know, how every one of those the second or third chapter is spent explaining how the club works and who all the girls are. "One night, Kris...more
Book Sp(l)ot
Thayer's back. The brother of one of Sutton's best friends disappeared, two months before Sutton's murder. leaving no one any clues as to where he might be.

Up until now he's been the one big unknown as Emma, Sutton's long-lost twin sister who has had to assume her identity, searches for her killer.

Emma has been able to work through Sutton's love life, tangled though it may have been, discovered what the Lying Game was - and is, found out some of the secrets Sutton and her friends were keeping, b...more
Majibookshelf Juhina & Farah
I am a huge fan of murder mystery/ psychological thriller novels, and I have been a fan of this series ever since I picked up The Lying Game #1 back when it first came out. Sara Shepard knows how to create this creepy, mysterious environment where everyone becomes a suspect and the chase for the truth becomes more like a game of hide and seek. This is not a newsflash since Sara Shepard is already famous for her "Pretty Little Liars" series, and while I did not read the books, the show is one of...more
Vanessa
This review is definitely affected by reading this book immediately after Never Have I Ever. Reading this immediately after finishing the preceding one, there are a lot of pretty large holes in the plot. For the first few chapters, I assumed that the author may just have made a mistake. Instead, all of the plot holes were actually Emma conveniently forgetting things that were relevant to the suspect of the book. Had Emma remembered everything she had conveniently forgotten, the mystery in this b...more
Shayna Gier
What I Loved

I have a soft spot for The Lying Game. I anxiously await the next release starting a maximum of three days after the previous one is released, and so there's quite a lot I love about the series. An avid reader, as well as viewer of the TV show, I just cannot get enough of Emma and Sutton! True to form, Two Truths and A Lie had my attention from the first line up to the cliff-hanger ending. One thing Sara Shepard is really excellent at is playing with the reader's head and emotion, us...more
Paula  Phillips
Review: Two Truths and a Lie - The Lying Game Book #3 - Sara Shepard - April 2012
I firstly have to admit for some reason The Lying Game hasn't captured fully my attention the way that Pretty Little Liars has , so I'm a PLL Girl. In saying that though, following both the TV Show and the books have been an interesting ride as they have taken a similiar but very different path. In Two truths and a lie , we have an inkling that Sutton is dead as Emma recieved a note saying "CONTINUE TO BE SUTTON OR...more
Pamela Kramer
'Two Truths and a Lie' by Sara Shepard takes the story of the twins-separated-at-birth and reunited at death (of just one of them) and continues with the still-living twin trying to find out who killed her sister, why, and whether she's next on the list. This is the third book in 'The Lying Game' series.

The story is narrated by Sutton. Yes, she's dead, but she's also stuck in the afterlife following her twin around and trying to remember who killed her. Not that it would help anyone even if she...more
Elissa
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Yogini Jhingan
I love the Lying Game series and was eagerly awaiting this book. I like how the story unfolds here and we get to see even further into Sutton's memories. Although I'd wish the next books brings even more answers and flashbacks. What I really like is how dimensional all these characters are, specially Thayer. This is by far my favorite Lying Game book till now. However, in this book I feel there was something really off about Ethan. I know how it's being shown towards the end that Laurel might've...more
Kelly Hager
Emma is still trying to figure out who killed her twin sister, Sutton. It's also getting increasingly difficult to continue to pretend to be Sutton, especially without anyone figuring out what's going on. But if she doesn't do a good job of being Sutton, she knows she's going to be the next to die. So who's behind it? She's already pretty sure it's not Sutton's sister, Laurel, or one of their friends. The current suspect is Madeline's brother, Thayer. He's been missing for a while and it turns o...more
Danielle Wood
The author's purpose in writing this book was to entertain the reader. Since this was a fictional book, there was nothing that the author was trying to teach the reader but, it was very entertaining and kept me interested the whole time. I guess you could say the purpose for writing the book is simply to tell a story about a group of friends in high school that make some bad choices and the end result is a disaster. Even though this story is not true, it could happen in any high school in any t...more
Kayla
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Marta
Emma sucht weiterhin den Mörder ihrer Zwillingsschwester Sutton. Bis dahin muss sie deren Identität annehmen, da sie sich vor einem anonymen Bedroher - dem Mörder? fürchtet. Nur der Außenseiter Ethan weiß um Emmas wahre Identität. Oder doch nicht nur er? Was macht plötzlich der verschollene Thayer in Emmas Schlafzimmer, mitten in der Nacht? Weiß er wer sie wirklich ist? Hat er Sutton umgebracht?

Diesmal im Fokus der Verdächtigungen steht der Ausreißer Thayer. Doch nicht nur damit hat Emma zu käm...more
Tereza S.
Tahle série se stala mojí novou posedlostí. Jak už jsem někde psala, knihy si obvykle nekupuju. Je jenom pár vyvolených kousků, které jsem prostě doma musela mít stůj co stůj - jako třeba Vampýrskou akademii. A právě jsem objevila další sérii, kterou bych si chtěla pořídit.

Je to zvláštní, ale sama nevím, čím si mě knihy získaly. Jakmile dočtu jednu, hned se pouštím do dalšího pokračování. A přitom, upřímně, není to vůbec nic převratného. Prostě takový obyčejný příběh ze života teenagerů, ale já...more
Dina M.
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Sarah
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Reina
whoa... sensing a love triangle with Emma(Sutton), Thayer, and Ethan! Except that Thayer is in love with Sutton and Emma's not Sutton. The Host love triangle anyone???
Anyway, I find Ethan to be quite a dull duck. I don't really like him, and honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Emma either. They're both rather flat characters and Ethan is can be kinda cheesey sometimes. However, Sutton and Thayer are the most intruiging and interesting characters in the story so far and therefore the flashbacks are...more
Jami
To tell you the truth, each time I start reading one of the books in this series, I can't figure out why I'm doing it. I don't love Shepard's writing style, and it often bugs me how changeable she makes her characters. One minute they act this way, or are characterized a certain way, and the next minute, they're acting completely opposite. Maybe Shepard has been inspired by the flip-flopping of current political candidates?

Another thing I don't love about Shepard's books is how she drags out the...more
Anna Serra i Vidal
Quick guilty pleasure that is starting to feel a bit repetitive because of the formula Sara Shepard is using in this series. At the beginning we find a new suspect and follow all the leads to clear him or her off.
This time it's Thayer Vega's time. He's Maddie's brother and way darker than he is in the TV show. He has violent outbursts and might be the last person to see Sutton alive. Or didn't he leave her alive?
Sutton's memories in the middle of the book got me distracted as they did add up b...more
Rebecca
Another book in the Lying Game series. While I thought the first two books in this series were actually okay, like the PLL series, I am finally getting board here. But since these books are such easy reads, you know I'll pick up more of them. Anyway, I just read a recap on Amazon to refresh my memory and I so agree with one of the reviews in that this book was a total retread of #2, which is why I found it so boring. I am a sucker for plot devices in these books though. I like the mix up in angl...more
Clementine
How does this book have such a high average rating? Who the hell is reviewing these things? This wasn't even good in a "this is such a guilty pleasure" sort of way. The action was totally contrived; it wasn't exciting at all; compared to the show, the characters just fall so flat. It's ridiculous. Sara Shepard is obviously running out of exciting plot twists, judging by the way this series is going, as well as the latest Pretty Little Liars offering.

I cringed the entire way through this book. Th...more
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Sara Shepard graduated from NYU and has an MFA from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Sara's Pretty Little Liars novels were inspired by her upbringing in Philadelphia's Main Line.
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