Book Review

The Lying Game

By Cort Witt

I am reviewing the book The Lying Game written by Sara Shepard.  This is probably the best fiction book I have ever read!  This book was most likely the most addicting book I have ever read and I wasn’t able to put it down.  I was up late and woke up early reading this book.

This story begins in a foster home where Emma was unhappy yet again.  Her perverted brother came up to her and showed her a video of a girl that looked exactly like her being strangled!

Emma knew it wasn’t her in the video so she went on Facebook and searched frantically for this twin.  Low and behold, there she was.  Her name was Sutton Mercer.  She was a rich and privileged young girl that looked exactly like Emma with the exact same birthday, too!  

Emma quickly messaged Sutton and told her about this amazing discovery.  Sutton quickly responded and told them where they should meet each other.  Emma replied and accepted.

What was really crazy was that Sutton was watching the whole thing from above.  She was now a ghost floating Emma at all times.  Emma had no idea that Sutton was in the room with her.  She thought that she was a couple thousand miles away.

The really weird thing is that even Sutton herself had no idea why she was with Emma or how she even became a ghost.  Sutton was also shocked that somebody responded to Emma in her Facebook.  If Sutton is a ghost and she didn’t write that e-mail, who did?

That night, Emma ran away from her foster home.  She was in search of this long lost sister that she thought was alive.  She left a note with her foster mother telling her everything that she is doing.  

It was a long bus ride.  When she finally arrived there, she went to the park where Sutton had told her to go.

About an hour had passed since she had arrived, still no Sutton.  Then, out of nowhere, someone grabbed her and holds a gun to her back.  Emma willingly went along with the people in hopes that she wouldn’t be shot.  Her plan worked.  

I love this beginning part of the book.  The reader is not really sure how Sutton became a ghost.  Was she brutally murdered or stabbed?  No one really knows, not even Sutton herself.

It is very sad that Sutton can’t talk to Emma and tell her that she is behind her.  Now Emma will never even know this long lost twin that she has found.  I think that it is crazy that Sutton was adopted by rich people and she is extremely privileged while Emma is bouncing around from foster home to foster home.  Emma and Sutton seem to have nothing in common besides their looks.

Now Emma is forced to live in her own sister’s shoes so that nobody knows that Sutton is really dead.

I think that this was an amazing and somewhat sad book.  I would highly recommend this book to everybody I know.  You will not want to put this book away.  It is dramatic and sometimes scary.

I loved the pace of this book as well.  I wasn’t too fast or too slow.  This book flowed along very nicely and I wouldn’t change a thing about the pace.  

However, it would have been nice if Sara Shepard would have told the ending.  I know that it is a sales booster, but it is sort of mean as well.  When you read a book, you expect to have a conflict and a resolution.  Well this book left me wanting more.  The writer was sort of leading us to believe that it was Sutton’s best friends.  We never find out.  This book, of course, is a part of her new series so she wants you to have to read the next book to find out what happens.  When you read this book expect a dramatic ending and you will go straight to the store, when you are done reading, to by the next book!

Before I read this book, I hadn’t really liked to read.  Then, after I started reading this book, I began to enjoy reading.

I have now since bought another one of Sara Shepard’s books from a different series.  I love this book almost as well as I did The Lying Game.

The Lying Game  is part of Sara Shepard’s new series and I can’t wait for the next book in the series to come out!