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Nic
Honestly, I don't think they're similar at all. If you mean that a limited number of suspects was locked in or trapped with the victim at the time of the murder, that is an incredibly common setup. But the setting, the characters, and the crime itself are very different between the two books.
If you like YA mysteries with this setup and want to try some more, you might enjoy:
- Ten by Gretchen McNeil
- The Rules by Nancy Holder
- Party Games by R.L. Stine
All of these, by the way, came out before One Of Us Is Lying. It's just a really common setup for a murder mystery, like I said. In fact, it's one of my favorites! :)
If you like YA mysteries with this setup and want to try some more, you might enjoy:
- Ten by Gretchen McNeil
- The Rules by Nancy Holder
- Party Games by R.L. Stine
All of these, by the way, came out before One Of Us Is Lying. It's just a really common setup for a murder mystery, like I said. In fact, it's one of my favorites! :)
Amethyst Majestorye
Why should she be? For using a concept that's been done over and over and over and over by many different authors throughout all of time? Are you so ignorant to think that One Of Us Is Lying was original?
This book is a commission from Hasbro, the rightful owner of Clue. This is what this book is about, the board game come to life in a format of a YA book, y'know, just in case you didn't understand what that copyright on the cover meant.
This book is a commission from Hasbro, the rightful owner of Clue. This is what this book is about, the board game come to life in a format of a YA book, y'know, just in case you didn't understand what that copyright on the cover meant.
Jessica
Hasbro contracted her to write a YA trilogy based on the Clue board game. They likely gave her characters and tropes and "clues" that needed to be included in this project, and the deal would have probably taken place before One Of Us Is Lying even came out. Publishing is slow. And accusing someone of plagiarism for using a common genre trope (locked house murder, in this case), is lazy.
Jaksen
The more books you read, the more tropes you 'discover.' Themes and ideas that are reworked, re-invented, redone, etc. etc. Ideas can't be copyrighted either, otherwise we'd have only ONE book about a charmed child in a weird school doing crazy stuff. Instead, we have dozens ...
Roberta
This is a standard mystery plot -- Agatha Christie used it many times in the 1920's and 30's with a group of people isolated in a country house, snowed in at a hotel, or famously, stranded on a train. BTW Kirkus Reviews criticized One of Us is Lying, saying that " the author's use of language and the plot border on cliché".
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