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They are hiding a huge secret—they are really her grandparents. Charlotte might still be irked at Sutton for stealing her ex, Garrett…. Thayer Vega: Super-hot, Thayer is also tormented and brooding. Star of the soccer team, his athletic future has been up in the air since he disappeared last June. Everyone thinks he ran away—and that Sutton had something to do with it.

Ethan Landry: The cute, mysterious, if slightly nerdy boy who lives next door to Nisha. Emma worries this puts him in danger too, but Ethan is determined to help her. He has a not-so-secret fiery temper, but Sutton did have some nice times with him. Emma tries to stay in contact with her, the only link to the girl she used to be. But Emma is lying to Alex—she never told her that Sutton is dead and Emma is pretending to be her.

Emma Paxton discovers that she might have a long-lost twin sister when her foster brother shows her a video of a girl who looks exactly like her, being choked. Emma does an online search and reaches out to Sutton. Emma panics and ditches out on her own 18th birthday party, trying to hide from the Lying Game clique.

He corners Emma in the storage closet during the Halloween party and begs her to take him back. Sutton's Killer , is revealed to be Ethan Landry. He also killed Nisha. The morning after Emma came to Tucson the killer left a note for her on Laurel's car. Reading "Sutton's dead. Keep playing along Unfortunately, everyone's a suspect because of Sutton's naughty bad-girl behavior. The killer constantly reminds Emma to keep quiet or she'll disappear also. At the end of the first book, Sutton's Killer attacks Emma but to keep their identity unknown they corner Emma and slowly whisper in her ear to not be stupid, and going to the police was a bad idea.

The killer then chokes Emma with Sutton's necklace, the one she wore the night she died. The killer then runs out of the house before Emma can see who it is.

The main suspects were Mads, Char and Laurel, but they were later eliminated as suspects. Emma suspects the killer was the twitter twins because a light fixture almost crushed her, even after when she could barely see the killer wrote on a chalkboard in front of her "Stop digging, or next time I'll hurt you for real. The main suspects were The Twitter Twins but they passed as well. The book ends with the main suspect being Thayer. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister Each different in their own way, the four became inseparable and were notorious for playing the Lying Game, telling lies at every turn to both fellow boarders and faculty, with varying states of serious and flippant nature that were disturbing enough to ensure that everyone steered clear of them.

The myriad and complicated rules of the game are strict: no lying to each other—ever. Bail on the lie when it becomes clear it is about to be found out. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. Published July 25th by Scout Press first published June 15th More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about The Lying Game , please sign up. I don't find myself often yelling at a character in a book, but I am with Ms. Ware's latest. This question contains spoilers Did she mean keep lying about her loving Owen or keep lying about her being fine? Ronnett This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [ I think she loved Owen but equated truly loving him with being able to be truthful with him which she knew she could never be.

I think her hope was th …more I think she loved Owen but equated truly loving him with being able to be truthful with him which she knew she could never be. I think her hope was that she could start over with the new fabricated truth and hopefully build something true and lasting with Owen from that moment on. See all 50 questions about The Lying Game…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters.

Sort order. Start your review of The Lying Game. The Lying Game is a slow burning psychological thriller about four friends who are bound together by lies.

After a horrible event occurs leading to the expulsion of the liars, the game ends but the girls never stop lying. They make a pact to never share what really happened, and keep the secret buried for 17 years. Switch to the present, and Isa is a 32 year old attorney living in London with her newborn daughter, Freya, and partner, Owen. Kate, Isa, Thea and Fatima reunite, desperate to keep their secret under wraps. Isa shares a lot about how things used to be, and while the narrative shifts to the past we only get small glimpses of the friends time together, which hindered my ability to really get a full picture of their friendship.

This is one of the reasons I had trouble with this book. While it's very well-written, there was something lacking for me. Often, I was bored--but this might be because I figured out the mystery super early on. I received a copy of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. View all comments. Shannon McBride Disappointed in this one.

The friendships were not built out enough for me. I too was annoyed with Isa not being honest with Owen. And the last line, which part is she lying about. Four high school friends now in their thirties reunite after a terrible shared secret threatens to emerge and shatter their peaceful lives.

The Lying Game is awful - looks like Ruth Ware is Four high school friends now in their thirties reunite after a terrible shared secret threatens to emerge and shatter their peaceful lives. The Lying Game is awful - looks like Ruth Ware is a one-hit wonder!

I guess what they did is morally questionable but I thought it was going to be much, much worse than it was. Ware wastes more time on the impossibly mundane life of Isa, our narrator, who has boring quarrels with her husband - this, like too many passages clogging the narrative what did having a baby add exactly? The mystery itself is flimsy at best.

No aspect of The Lying Game was interesting or worth reading. View all 3 comments. Sep 27, Miranda Reads rated it it was ok Shelves: audiobook. They had a game - a wild, hilarious and crazy game - that bonded these girls together.

The biggest rule? Stick to your lie. A lie can outlast any truth. They awarded points based off of the most outrageous lie, who believed them and if they ever had to give up the truth. They were young, and wild, and free Something happened th 2. Something happened that night Now, years later, they can barely look each other in the eye but if one of them calls for help, they all come running. Because some lies Make the most of our lives, for the sake of the people who gave theirs.

Overall, it was good, but not that good. So, for the most part, I enjoyed this one. It was fun to piece together the puzzle and Ware scattered enough clues to keep me interested in the plot.

However and this is a BIG however , this is the third novel of Ware's where the plot completely circles around hiding the truth for no apparent reason But instead, they all have to lie, lie and lie some more which ends up stretching a relatively uncomplicated secret into a full-length novel.

It's just frustrating that Ware is leaning on this lying crutch for the third novel in a row. And for some reason , we are constantly using this hugely and uselessly poetical language throughout the novel - which makes everything three times longer! I close my eyes, listening to the sound of the past, imagining myself back into the skin of the girl I once was, a girl whose friends were still around her, whose mistakes were ahead of her Oh good lawd girl, get to the point already!

Church provides an excellent narration It's so similar that I actually forget which novel I'm in! View all 37 comments. Jul 24, Felice Laverne rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley , brit-fic , author-liked-review-on-twitter , reviewed-on-amazon , cozy-thriller , read , contemporary-fiction , full-review. Once a place of refuge and harbor, the Reach has turned into a silent stomping ground for their greatest fears and will forever be a magnet of both dread and longing for each of the women in this sisterhood.

Kate, Thea, Fatima and Isa share a secret that bonds them together tighter than blood ever could. And it starts and ends with the Reach. The gentle suspense here was wonderful, but even it was heightened and magnified like a fly under a magnifying glass by the camaraderie that held these four unlikely friends together nearly 20 years after that fateful night—you could feel their anxieties, mistrust and the burn of their lies scorching your very skin as you read on.

Ware swirled so much unexpected goodness into these pages that I was amazed at her deftness and insight. This glimpse into their world was so much more than just that—it was the peeling back of the layers of humanity within ourselves and at the lengths that we will go to protect one of our own.

The town of Salten was embedded in true English culture, making the characters all leap to life on the pages, the values of this tight-knit society playing an important role in the unfolding of events. How dare you judge me? I do what I have to do to sleep at night. So do you, apparently. Ruth Ware gave her readers a phenomenal roller coaster of twists and turns.

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and would be happy to read more from this author any day! The setting was palpable, the sisterhood and kinship of these women SO relatable. The camaraderie was palpable, lifelike, believable and touching. There was no bow-tie happy ending here and I respected that, yearned for that, in fact. Ware had the guts to not put a ribbon on it for us, and her readers can only revere her for that. I loved every moment of reading this novel and I'm definitely a Ruth Ware fan from here on out.

The Lying Game easily earned itself a very strong 4 stars. I reserve that for the absolutely breath-taking works of writing, and this was not quite that, though it was exceptionally well done! View all 24 comments. The Turn of the Key : 5-stars 2.

The Lying Game : 4. One by One : 4-stars 4. The Death of Mrs. Westaway : 4-stars 5. In a Dark, Dark Wood : 3. The Woman in Cabin 10 : 3-stars Review: When Isa Wilde receives a text message from her dear friend, Kate, simply stating, ' I need you' , Isa packs her bag, her infant daughter and boards a train.

No questions asked. Her destination, the remote, idyllic coastal town of Salten. There she is reunited with her ole' boarding school chums, Kate, Fatima and Thea; think Mean Girls but meaner.

Recently, a local Salten woman out walking her dog came across a bone, most likely human, and Kate is petrified of what the repercussions of this find may be. She calls her old friends because they are the only ones, besides herself, who know the truth behind the recently discovered bone.

The ladies have a secret. A dark secret that they have been hiding for many years, but as we all know, secrets very seldom stay buried forever.

I can easily say I enjoyed this one the most out of the three. I think basically it boils down to the fact that boarding school stories are my jam. The fact that this had a present timeline woven together with flashbacks of boarding school days, was perfect for me.

I love boarding schools, I love mean girls fictionally and I love secrets that won't stay secret. It was like this story was made for me. I know it won't be for everyone, I can tell that from the ratings Lesson Learned: Never give up on an author, every work is different and everything deserves an honest try. View all 12 comments. So stoked for The It Girl!! This is an atmospheric and eerie psychological thriller from Ruth Ware. Take four teenage schoolfriends who set up a group that vies to create the most outlandish lies that they can get others to believe, and what you have is a recipe for potentially horrifying outcomes.

This is exactly what the author does, creating two time lines when something terrible happens that results in the four girls being expelled from their school, although this does not stop them from lying. Their one proviso is tha This is an atmospheric and eerie psychological thriller from Ruth Ware.

Their one proviso is that they must tell the truth to one another, however, when you specialise in lying, that may be a bit of a tall order. In the present, the four friends have not seen each other in years. Isa is now a 32 year old lawyer, with a partner, Owen, and baby daughter, Freya, she is a woman with everything to lose. She gets a text from Kate saying that she needs her.

The narrative is delivered from Isa's perspective, filling us in on their past and what is now happening in the present. Isa rushes to Kate, and they are joined by Thea and Fatima, they are tense and disturbed at the possibility that the secret that they have kept for seventeen years is about to emerge. We are slowly taken back to their schooldays at Salten, a boarding school.

We see their relationships build, and how their group was set up. Their Lying Game, which seemed so much fun at the time, creates divisions and isolates others, and the locals are none too happy either.

Then the awful event occurs and they lie their way through that. Are their secrets from the past now set to emerge? This is a beautifully written novel with both suspense and twists.

However, whilst we do get a clear idea of the characters of Kate and Isa, we are left more in the dark about Thea and Fatima, which is a shame. A great read that focuses on the issues of love, deception, trust and relationships. However, whilst I derived enjoyment from reading it, it did have too many strong echoes of her book, In a Dark Dark Wood. I hope the author does not keep repeating the same motifs in her future books and finds new territory to explore. View all 27 comments.

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