The Kari AnnAlysis

Emma’s mom left her one day at a friend’s house and never came back to get her. Since then, she’s been in and out of foster homes, but that’s all about to change. Her ratty foster brother found a video of a girl that looks exactly like her getting strangled. Emma finds the girl on Facebook and realizes this girl has to be her sister. She sets up a meeting, excited to possibly start a new life, with her real family.

When she shows up to meet Sutton though, something happens. Sutton’s friends think that Emma is Sutton, but it doesn’t take Emma long to find out Sutton is dead.

It also doesn’t take her long to find out that Sutton is the ring leader of a little thing called The Lying Game. Sutton and her friends prank the rest of their classmates, but sometimes it gets very dangerous, including the night the video was taken, that could have possibly been the night that Sutton was killed.

Emma is threatened to keep the secret of her twin’s death, but she also needs to find out who killed her.

If you liked the Pretty Little Liars series, you will love this. There are twists and turns and anxiety pushers and intense hold-your-breath moments throughout the book. Just when I thought I knew who killed Sutton, I was proved wrong, and I hated it I cannot wait for the next book in this series. Shepard really stepped her game up for this one.

Now, I was a little disturbed about this book. The pranks that these girls pull on the others are a bit, extreme to be nice. When I was in high school, I was a bit of a partier and a rebel, but would never have thought about doing something like this. One of the things I’m looking forward to most about the next book in the series is to hopefully learn more of the games that Sutton and her friends played on other people. This book teased a bit about the awful things Sutton did. I want to now what they are!

I give The Lying Game 5 bookmarks.

ISBN: 978-0061869709
Published: December 7, 2010
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Kari got this book from NetGalley