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One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
May. 31st, 2020 11:00 pmThe Blurb On The Back:
Five students walk into detention.
Only four leave alive.
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond.
Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime.
Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again.
He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it’s no accident. All of them are suspects.
Everyone has secrets, right?
What really matters is how far you’ll go to protect them.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Karen M McManus’s YA murder mystery is a pacy, clever read that combines THE BREAKFAST CLUB with CLUEDO while trying to give the traditional High School tropes more depth (although I think this worked best with Addy as the others are a little stock). McManus does well in slowly un-peeling the different secrets and motives and although I did guess who did it and I think the ending was overblown, it held my interest from beginning to end.
Only four leave alive.
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule.
Sports star Cooper only knows what he’s doing in the baseball diamond.
Bad boy Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime.
Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life.
And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won’t ever talk about any of them again.
He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude it’s no accident. All of them are suspects.
What really matters is how far you’ll go to protect them.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Karen M McManus’s YA murder mystery is a pacy, clever read that combines THE BREAKFAST CLUB with CLUEDO while trying to give the traditional High School tropes more depth (although I think this worked best with Addy as the others are a little stock). McManus does well in slowly un-peeling the different secrets and motives and although I did guess who did it and I think the ending was overblown, it held my interest from beginning to end.
