Five students with seemingly nothing in common are all in
detention one afternoon. Bronwyn is the scholar, the one
destined for the Ivy League. Cooper is a baseball star with
a secret. Addy is the girlfriend of the most popular guy in
school and lives it. Nate is the town bad boy who deals in
drugs. Finally, Simon, the runner of a malicious gossip app,
is the one who dies during the detention. When everyone has
something to hide, who is the killer?
A bit of a mixture of The Breakfast Club and a locked room
mystery, Karen M. McManus' ONE OF US IS LYING is a high
runner for one of the best mysteries of the year. As each
piece falls, the mystery builds at a breathless pace. As
much as I love a good whodunit, my favorite aspect of the
novel is the beautiful emotion underneath everything. Each
character becomes lovable, nuanced people, ones that by the
end feel like good friends. Readers are thrust into their
personal lives filled with heartache, ambition, and discovery.
While each character is well-developed, Bronwyn and Addy's
journeys hooked me the most. Addy's journey focuses
primarily on self-discovery and self-empowerment. For so
long, she has existed in the shadow of her psychologically
harmful boyfriend. Without him, she has to figure out who
she truly is. For Bronwyn, she feels constant pressure to
maintain a clean image for her family, but she also finds
herself falling for Nate. Their relationship is completely
swoony, and readers should be ready to board the ship
immediately.
ONE OF US IS LYING deserves all the hype it's received.
Karen M. McManus spins a thrilling mystery you won't want
to put down.
“Pretty Little Liars meets The Breakfast Club”
(EW.com)in this “flat-out addictive” (RT Book
Reviews) story of what happens when five strangers walk
into detention and only four walk out alive.
Pay close attention and you might solve this.
On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into
detention.
Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a
rule.
Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming
princess.
Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.
Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.
And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview
High’s notorious gossip app.
Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the
end of detention Simon's dead. And according to
investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he
died. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals
about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes
all four of them suspects in his murder. Or are they the
perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?
Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far
you would go to protect them.
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