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The Lying Game by Sara Shepard
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The Lying Game (edition 2010)

by Sara Shepard

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Seventeen-year-old Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
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Title:The Lying Game
Authors:Sara Shepard
Info:HarperTeen (2010), Hardcover, 320 pages
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Rating:1/2
Tags:Read in 2011, Drama, Mystery, YA, Romance

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The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

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  laplantelibrary | Apr 7, 2022 |
I enjoyed the tv show better but still a good book. ( )
  Teri_O | Nov 11, 2020 |
Don't really know what I think. I liked it and want to see how this is going to go. But saw the first season of the tv-series first, and it feels like the basic story is different even though it's the same series. Shouldn't it be the same? ( )
  litetmonster | Jan 25, 2019 |
I understand now why everyone was telling me to read the book and not just watch the show. So I will tell all of you now...The show is TOTALLY different from the book!!
Sutton Mercer is the narrator in the book, and as you will find out from the beginning; she's dead. So there is the first major difference from the show. We still get that Emma is in foster care and her foster brother is a jerk. Emma finds out that she has a twin due to a video showed to her and her foster mother by her foster brother. Emma then finds her on face book of all places and sends her a message.
After a little while Emma receives a reply from who she believes is Sutton and then heads to Arizona, to meet the twin she never knew. Emma arrives and goes to the designated meeting spot, but there is no Sutton. Emma is instead found by Sutton's friends. Emma is dragged to a party where she steps into pretending to be Sutton.
Emma continues the "game" as Sutton, going so far as to go to her house and take up being Sutton. Emma goes to school as Sutton, plays tennis as Sutton and pretty much just takes over her life. A little bit into the book ( I believe a few chapters) you learn the truth that Yes, Sutton is dead, and who ever killed her knows that Emma is there and wants Emma to continue to play Sutton.
As I said, Sutton is narrating the story, so when Emma is going through the days as her, you get little flashes of Sutton's death as flashbacks from Sutton, but since she can't remember anything specific you never do find out who it was.
With the book being narrated by the dead twin, I found myself lost more than once. And really, I understand being dead and not really remembering anything, but you would think that Sutton would remember a lot of more thing than she does. Like really, how could she not know why she is friends with the girls that are her BFFs? All you get from Sutton is feelings and that she knows that she should know such and such about this person. I found the whole thing a little hard to believe, how would a sister, parents, best friends and even a boyfriend not know that the person they are talking to isn't who it should be? I like to believe that even if I had a twin, my family and friends would know if it was actually me or not.
While I wasn't too thrilled with the book in itself, I will be getting the 2nd and 3rd one in the series just so i can find out exactly who killed Sutton, and if anyone ever figures out that Emma isn't really Sutton. ( )
  chaoticbooklover | Dec 26, 2018 |
Katie liked that she was kept wondering what happened throughout the book.
  FinneytownSecondary | Dec 1, 2018 |
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Morris, CassandraNarratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Topalova, VioletaTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed

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