Review - Two Truths and a Lie by Sara Shepard

Title: Two Truths and a Lie
A Lying Game Novel #3
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publish Date: Feb 7, 2012
Hardcover, 304 pages

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I really was looking forward to this next book, but it didn't tell me a damn thing. Darn it! What is up with that? I haven't read her Pretty Little Liars series, though I have seen a few shows, but does it do the same thing? Leave me wanting to know what I have been reading about for three books now and getting nowhere? Please give me a hint!! A real one!!

Sigh, beside that I really enjoyed this book. It is entertaining. And I love that Emma is making things right for Sutton. I like that Emma is kind and considerate. I like that she finally knows what it is like to live a good, rich life when she grew up in broken foster homes. I like that she has friends, albeit crappy at times, but she does find comfort in them. I like that in this book she finally stands out from Sutton. (oops was that a spoiler?)

Check out my reviews of her other books in this series - The Lying Game and Never Have I Ever.

Next in the series,
Hide and Seek,
expected publication date
July 2012.




Summary (followed by a spoiler alert) -
Sutton Mercer watches from the afterlife as her long-lost twin, Emma Paxton, takes over her identity to solve her murder. But after ruling out her early leads, Emma still hasn’t found Sutton’s killer. A lot of people wanted her dead—but one name keeps popping up: Thayer Vega. When the gorgeous and mysterious Thayer returns to town, Emma has to move fast to figure out whether he’s back for revenge…or if he already got it.

Set in a town where friends can turn into dangerous enemies and everyone harbors dark secrets, The Lying Game is a juicy new series that fans of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series—and the hit ABC Family show—will love.

SPOILER ALERT: Do not proceed to read unless you have read this book.

Okay here is my what I think will happen. I think Sutton is in a coma and is somehow using her mind to follow Emma. I am really hoping she is not dead because she deserves a sister and a family. I think it would be awesome to find out they will live together as sisters. I still have no clue who the murderer is, but I have a feeling it will be Ethan. He is the underlying suspect as he is in the know, is close to Emma and has some past experience with Sutton. I have no idea why or how, but that is my thinking. I hope not, as they are really cute together, especially in this book, but hey, a girl can hope.

Review - The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

Title: The Lying Game
The Lying Game Series #1
Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: Harper Teen
Publish Date: Dec 7, 2010
Hardcover, 307 pages

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This is the first book I have read of Sara Shepard's and gotta say, I am so impressed. For a teen book, this really takes the cake. I can't give away the end, but she leaves more than a few things unresolved which normally would tick me off, but I was so enamored by this book that I really don't care. I can't wait to read Never Have I Ever.

Sara Shepard did such a phenomenal job getting into the head of Emma, her sister and their mean friends. I could not get over how truly fun this book was, though I couldn't believe how horribly mean these girls were. The pranks they pulled are disgusting and they're going to grow up to be criminals no doubt.

Emma is a character I would love to meet and be friends with. She is kind, smart, considerate, honest and has not had an easy life moving from foster home to foster home. She is in a home where the boy who lives there is incredibly fond of her and to get her in trouble (and himself out of trouble) he shows his mother a youtube video of Emma being strangled. Emma finds out she has a long lost twin sister. She goes off to find her and ends up becoming her in order to figure out what is going on.

And that is all I want to tell you because seriously, this book was oh so yummy!!

I wouldn't have even probably picked it up if it wasn't for IHeartMonster's read-along. I am so sorry. I tried to wait and read the chapters as you laid out, but I suck. I couldn't wait to finish it. This book was oh so fantastic!! But without IHeartMonster, I would have missed this great book. So go visit her blog and tell her I said hello!!

Summary -

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?

From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars books, comes a riveting new series about secrets, lies, and killer consequences.

Let the lying game begin.