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Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for: amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I’m gone—that I’m dead. To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad.
And my killer is watching her every move.
I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers, so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of games—games that ruined people’s lives. Anyone could want revenge . . . anyone could want me—and now Emma—dead.
Review by Kate
NEVER HAVE I EVER, by Sara Shepard is the highly anticipated sequel to her newest series The Lying Game. Emma is still playing Sutton but someone knows that she is not who she pretends to be. Lurking around every corner is Sutton's killer and the games he/she plays with Emma get downright dangerous.
This book was un-put-downable! Shepard has the talent for weaving intricate mystery plots that will make your head spin. There isn't too much I can say without ruining the plot, but Shepard did help eliminate some of the questions I had about who killed Sutton. But along with those eliminations came more suspects and a killer cliffhanger! I am anxiously awaiting the next book in the series to understand who really killed Sutton and why.
I loved that Emma and Ethan are getting closer. They are absolutely adorable and I love that Ethan is the only person who is constant in Emma's life and understands who she really is. I also liked getting a better background on how evil and manipulative Sutton was and how her 'ghost' is handling the revelations as well. Overall, this book is FILLED with heart-pounding suspense and action and I loved each second of it. Shepard truly has me hooked on this series!!
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"In The Lying Game, the author of the Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard, presents the classic long-lost identical twin premise—but with an interesting twist.
"The story is told through the perspective of Sutton Mercer, a 17-year-old girl who exists as a spirit and believes that she has been murdered but doesn’t remember many of the details of her life or her death.
"Sutton watches as Emma, a 17-year-old girl who has been in foster care all her life and looks exactly like her, discovers Sutton’s Facebook page. Emma’s foster brother had shown her a video of Sutton on the internet, and Emma noticed their likeness and immediately believes that Sutton is her long-lost sister. Emma sends Sutton a message, and Sutton responds quickly, inviting Emma to come visit her in Arizona—even though the real Sutton is no longer alive.
"The story unfolds as Emma goes to Arizona to visit Sutton. Expecting an emotional reunion with her sister, she is shocked to discover that Sutton’s family and friends believe that she is Sutton, and she is easily able to take Sutton’s place as Sutton herself is missing. At first, Emma expects Sutton to return, but eventually she realizes that something might have actually happened to Sutton—especially after she starts finding notes and getting text messages telling her that Sutton is dead—and that she will be next if she doesn’t “keep playing along” and pretend to be Sutton.
"While Sutton appears to have lived a charmed life of wealth and luxury, surrounded by beautiful and popular friends, as Emma gets deeper and deeper into Sutton’s life she discovers that everything was not as it seemed. Sutton was obviously the 'queen bee,' the leader of her clique of friends, and adored by many. However, she made a lot of enemies along the way, too—especially because of her infamous contest with her friends called 'the lying game.'
"As Emma puts together more and more pieces of the puzzle that is Sutton’s life, Sutton begins to regain memories as well, though she is still generally unclear about who her murderer might be. Emma and Sutton are both simultaneously solving Sutton’s murder, and the reader is able to attempt to solve the mystery as well, and is presented with many different suspects and pieces of evidence that could incriminate them throughout the book.
"While the book did not have a conclusive ending (much like many of the
YA novelist Sara Shepard (pictured, via) will add another four books to her Pretty Little Liars series. The first book will be called Twisted, and is scheduled for a July 2011 release.
The series was originally supposed to conclude with the eighth book. According to Shelf-Life, the decision to continue the series came because the ABC Family adaptation “has been a ratings success and renewed interest in the books.”
The series’ first season returns to television in January 2011. Shepard debuted as an author with the Pretty Little Liars series. Since then, she has released an adult novel, The Visibles, and started a second YA series, The Lying Game.
Publisher: HarperTeen (December 7, 2010) Hardcover: 307 Pages Genre: Young Adult Series: The Lying Game #1 Book from Publisher*
From Goodreads. 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?
Review
THE LYING GAME, by Sara Shepard, is an amazing start to a great new series. Sara Shepard is the author of the series, Pretty Little Liars (which I admit I still have not read, bad me!). Going into this new series with no previous stigma, I absolutely LOVED it! Shepard definitely has a way with words and she kept my fingers clinging to the pages until the very end.
This contemporary young adult novel weaved elements of suspense and utter creepiness into it. Emma never had the dream family and when she stumbled upon her long-lost twin, Sutton, she was desperate to start again. After her Sutton's family only recognizes her as Sutton and a mysterious person tries to keep her real identity quiet, Emma puts together the pieces and realizes how much danger she is facing.
Emma was truly a fantastic MC and along with the 'ghost' of Sutton, they made a dynamic duo. I am excited for the continuation of the series to find out more about what happened to Sutton and why she is connected to her twin in this way. And I have to say I developed a crush on Ethan. Even though he was such a small part in Emma/Sutton's life, I hope that he will have a bigger part in her future in this series.
Overall, this was a pretty phenomenal book. I was disappointed that it ended before I got many questions answered but I still loved it!
*FTC Disclosure: I received this ARC from the publisher. I do not receive payment of any kind in exchange for a review. I do not receive monetary compensation from any book links in my review.
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Book Dads is proud to present our guest reviewer, Cameron from Teen Read. Cameron is an 8th grader in Western New York. Her favorite subjects are Language Arts and Math and she loves to read. She just launched her book review site and we’re trying to give her a little support and promotion here. Today she reviews the series, “Pretty Little Liars.”
In this series of eight books by Sara Shepard, four 17-year-old high school seniors face many problems each day. One of the problems they face is that their best friend, Alison DiLaurentis, disappeared in the middle of their end of seventh grade sleep-over in the Hastings’ barn.
Three years later Alison’s body was found in her backyard. One week before her body was found the four girls, Spencer Hastings, Aria Montgomery, Hanna Marin, and Emily Fields, started receiving threatening text messages that contained secrets only the girl who received them and Alison knew.
They thought Alison was back, and were officially spooked. All the texts were signed “A”, and said if they told the police or anyone else, the texter would tell everyone their secrets or hurt them.
Hanna found out who A was because A forgot to block her number and it was a number Hanna recognized. She asked the other three girls to come so she could tell them who A was, but as they were coming to meet Hanna, Hanna was hit by a car and ended up in a coma.
The police had their own suspect, but as the girls found out more information they were convinced the police were wrong. Later in the series, the girls thought they saw Alison, but police called the sighting, “smoke and mirrors.”
The four girls started to face more and more problems and later found out Alison had a twin, Courtney, that even Alison’s best friends didn’t know about. Eventually they started to uncover secrets about Courtney.
Could Courtney be the killer? You will just have to read this amazing book series and find out all the secrets yourself.
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What fun! I fondly remember Beverly Sills' specials with Carol Burnett, but didn't know she dueted (sp?) with one of my favorites, Danny Kaye. I wonder if anyone (of BookMoot's "older" readers) remembers a record Kaye made of Aesop's Fables stories. I listened to it religiously as a child (along with Vivien Leigh's recordings of the Peter Rabbit stories) and loved the song Kaye sang for the story of the fox and the crow ("I'm a Cheese Man"). Thanks for the delightful clip!
Camille said, on 7/5/2007 9:59:00 AM
I had a Danny Kaye storybook of Stories from Around the World or something like that. I think there even may be a record of him telling stories at my folk's house. I will have to check on that.
Kaye was another original. I used his "Vessel with the Pestle" bit from the movie Court Jester for notetaking lessons. It was important to me that kids today be introduced to his brilliance.
TadMack said, on 7/5/2007 11:10:00 AM
You know, you don't even realize who or what informs your ideas on what things are... I got the idea of what opera was from Beverly Sills being on re-runs of The Muppet Show. When we galloped around the house ululating and playing 'opera star,' it was she whom we imitated.
...despite the fact that for years I called her George Beverly Sills... having once heard the name George Beverly SHEA.
Camille said, on 7/5/2007 12:21:00 PM
I realized my youngest daughter had never seen her when we watched a concert and tribute to her on PBS earlier this year, and to think, my youngest is "the singer." I am so grateful we took time to watch the program and enjoy her joy of singing.
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Sweet post. Thanks again Chris. That was way too cool of you.
Guest posts by young readers. EXCELLENT IDEA! This should become smoewhat of a regular feature.
Great post Cameron!
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Thank you my friend – this is super cool and I don’t know why it took so long to think of it!
Thanks CD! Yes, I hope to have this be a regular feature.