Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars It’s 2:55 on the afternoon of Monday, September 24th. Five high school students sit in Mr. Avery’s after-school detention: a nerd, a jock, a princess, a criminal, and an outcast who just so happens to run Bayview High’s most notorious gossip app. You think you know where this story is going; but then, one of them dies. At first it looks like a tragic accident, but soon enough the four remaining students are being investigated for murder. What follows next is a riveting mystery that slowly but surely untangles the web of lies and secrets that the “murder club” find themselves mired in. But the real question remains: which one of them did it? One of Us is Lying started off as a typical YA high school drama. The characters felt like caricatures with archetypal personalities and it was clear that the focus of the book was on the mystery. However, Karen M. McManus surprised me: as the story progressed, the characters did too. Even the most stereotypical characters revealed layers of depth and emotion that I never anticipated. I quickly found myself becoming hooked by the mystery and falling in love with the characters as I watched them fall in love with each other. I was thrilled to find that what I expected to be a straightforward and even somewhat trashy contemporary was actually a well-written and engaging example of YA mystery. The big reveal of the mystery may have been a bit predictable for someone more familiar with the genre, but I couldn’t wait to know what happened and I wasn’t disappointed when I found out. Like its four main characters, One of Us is Lying hides a deep story behind a seemingly-predictable façade and is definitely worth a look.
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