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The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

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Aug 01, 11

bookshelves: 2004-10
Read in August, 2011

** spoiler alert ** Emilia - My mind has been so caught up with dystopian novels of future worlds that I forgot how we live nowadays. My mind was thinking things, like I wonder when we will get robots, or when zombies are going to rule the earth. Would I be prepared to fight either of them? Yeah, I even had a couple of nightmares between the two.

I’m glad Ivy sent this book to me. I only read one book of Sara’s, and that was Pretty Little Liars. That book had so many questions and few answers. After reading this book, I starting to think maybe I should start reading the Pretty Little Liars series. I have seen the show and know that it is different from the books. I also know ABC Family is making The Lying Game into a show, but it is also going to be different from the book. This makes me sad since, the book was FANTASTIC the way it was. Why change it?

Anyways, the book starts off with Sutton Mercer waking up in a bathroom, not knowing how she got there. In walks unknown girl named Emma Paxton, who looks exactly like her. Sutton yells at Emma but soon finds out that Emma can’t see her. Because Sutton Mercer is dead.

The book switches off between Emma being in third person point of view, and Sutton’s commentary on the side, which is in first person. It is not that hard to follow, actually a pretty easy read. I read it in like four hours.

Continuing with the story, Emma is a foster kid living in Las Vegas. She gets blamed for a crime she didn’t commit and her foster mom kicks her out. Emma doesn’t know where to go until she receives an email from her twin sister Sutton. Sutton wants to meet Emma, and Emma can’t believe her luck. But when Emma arrives where Sutton lives, everyone confuses her for Sutton. She plays along thinking Sutton will step out any second now. That is until she gets an anonymous letter saying Sutton is dead., and it tells her to act like Sutton or she’s next.

Emma is determined to find out who the killer is, while ghost Sutton is trying to figure out how she died. But when she discovers what The Lying Game is, and how Sutton played pranks on almost everyone, anyone can be a suspect. Even, Sutton’s best friends and sister are suspects.

I loved the story and I am now continuing the story with its sequel Never Have I Ever. You should definitely read the book before the TV show comes out, I think its better than it.

Question: Does anyone else suspect Charlotte’s father to be a suspect? He seemed suspicious.

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