Book Review: The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

I had a life anyone would kill for.

Then someone did.


The worst part of being dead is that there’s nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It’s enough to kill a girl all over again. But I’m about to get something no one else does—an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet.

Now Emma’s desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me—to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she’s the girl he fell in love with? Pretend to be a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep up the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?

From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.

Let the lying game begin.

I always wanted to read The Pretty Little Liars, but quickly my sister and my friend spoiled the whole ending for me, so I just stuck to watching the television show which I love.

When I heard that Sara Shepard was coming out with a new book series, I automatically wanted to read it. I knew that I was not going to find out who exactly was the killer in this book and such, but I had high expectations for this book.

It was a good book. It basically just introduced all the characters and all the different situations going on in Sutton's life. I did expect it to make me want to keep reading and me being on the edge of my seat, but it was not really like that for the most part. There was only one or two parts that really creeped me out, but that was about it.

I thought Emma was the only character with a true personality and the rest of the group of friends were just bland. I did find it werid how Emma tried to pretend to be Sutton as some parts. Like one minute she was acting like her normal self and then the next she tried too hard and called her friends bitches. That was a little weird for me, but I digress.

The ending part did make me want to continue the series, though. What we find in the beginning of the book to be the main concept of it really wasn't at all and that kind of threw me off knowing that there was something entirly different behind the scenes. So, I did enjoy it and I will continue the series and hopefully the books get better along the way.

Oh and I give it a 3.5 out of 5 stars. :]