As a general concept, it works well, over all I just have to stop and reread occasionally when Sutton starts adding in her thoughts over Emma’s third person visuals.I can not believe I have to wait until this summer to finish out the case.

Just know that the series is picking up rather than falling into a slump, thank goodness.The only gripe I have with the books as a whole collection is that sometimes Sutton and Emma get a bit tangled in terms of voice, perspective and tense. He’s a hottie to hate, though, in this installment and I can’t say much more. Thayer is not my typical lit crush (I’m not one for the bad boy but he’s a total soccer playing hottie!) but his character is by far the best drawn out player we’ve seen so far. We’re getting to the deep bottom of Sutton’s memory and Emma is wrapped up more than ever in the drama of Hollier, for better or for worse.

Now, Thayer has resurfaced, alive if not quite shiny and new, and Emma has to figure out if he’s a lover in mourning or an ex-lover, licking his savagely cut wounds, before he outs her secret, or ends her whole game, for good.This latest chapter in the Lying Game series was far and away my favorite. He’s been gone longer than Sutton and rumor has it, the two were involved in some pretty risky behavior before either one went MIA. This time, their friend Madeline’s runaway brother and town bad boy, Thayer, is the prime suspect. Read moreĮmma and Sutton are back for round three, tangled up in clues and red herrings as usual. Hopefully, this is just a one-book stall, and Shepard is able to pick up the story again in Hide and Go Seek. Niether are bad, per say, they just don’t meet expectations. Harry Potter had Goblet of Fire and The Lying Game now has Two Truths and A Lie. True, there were still take-my-breath-away tense moments in Two Truths and A Lie, but it just didn’t enthrall me as it usually does. One thing Sara Shepard is really excellent at is playing with the reader’s head and emotion, using what the reader already knows against them, and Two Truths and A Lie does this several times throughout the book.I am hoping that it’s just personal tastes and that the next Lying Game book will be as enthralling as ever. An avid reader, as well as viewer of the TV show, I just cannot get enough of Emma and Sutton! True to form, Two Truths and A Lie had my attention from the first line up to the cliff-hanger ending. I anxiously await the next release starting a maximum of three days after the previous one is released, and so there’s quite a lot I love about the series.

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