Book Review: The Lying Game

                                                       The Lying Game Review

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard, the author of Pretty Little Liars( I’ve watched the TV series and I love it and plan on reading the books) is about a girl named Emma whose a foster kid who discovers that she has a long lost twin named Sutton who was adopted by a wealthy family. When Emma goes to meet her she discovers that Sutton’s been killed and that killer wants Emma to be Sutton. Through out the book we get more clues about who could of killed Sutton but in the end Emma still has no idea who killed Sutton.

I found Sutton and her friends to be extremely cruel with the lying game which is a series of a whole bunch of over the top pranks that are mean spirited. Because of the lying it looks like just about everyone has a reason to want Sutton dead and we later discover that all of Sutton’s friends also have a reason or two to want Sutton dead which makes it really hard for Emma to solve her murder. Also one of the pranks for the lying game was Sutton’s friends all teaming up to together to strangle Sutton so basically none of those girls are nice.
I liked Emma she seemed like a nice fairly normal person who was put in a really weird situation and is trying to do the right thing and to keep alive at the same time which is kind of hard in this book. I found Sutton in flash backs to bitchy in a kind of awesome way( like she’s entertaining but you’d hate to know her in real life). Most of the other characters I didn’t really like expect for Ethan who I like a lot he’s this guy who’s a bit of loner and he’s a pretty normal person and I got happy each time his character was around. I really liked the relationship that developed between Emma and Ethan they have this connection and have quite a few things in common(likes to look at the stars, make faces with their food, like poetry and are the most normal people in the book) and also by the end of the book he knows Emma’s secret.

This book is told from Sutton point of in first some of the time since her spirit follows Emma around but for most of the time it’s in third person limited were it only goes into Emma’s thoughts unless Sutton’s adding her thoughts but dead Sutton is pretty boring. I really liked the flashbacks that were inserted in the books because they gave us the feel of who Sutton really is.

I overall enjoyed this book and had a hard time putting it down and I will defiantly read the next book and watch the upcoming TV series. Please tell your thoughts on the book or the upcoming TV series.