Review: The Lying Game by Sara Shepard

T h e  L y i n g  G a m e

Author: Sara Shepard (Twitter)

Release Date: 12/7/10 (Hardcover)
Other Works: Pretty Little Liars 

Publisher: HarperTeen

Age Group: Young Adult (14+)

Pages: 307

Source: NetGalley & HarperTeen (Thank you!)

Go Buy It: Amazon★Barnes&Noble 

Overall Feelings: Deeply thrilling, sickly suspenseful!

Synopsis- "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?" Goodreads»»

Quick Thinking: The Lying Game was a darkly, madly twisted and spine-chilling read with its captivating, fast-paced suspense and its sick, veiled killer(s) lurking in the shadows. TLG will keep you tied up in knots from concentrated, agonizing anticipation and anxiety, luring you deeper into this sickly thrilling tale of two unacquainted twins whose lives get turned upside-down, contorted every which way when one twin dies. . .more like, is murdered and the other is forced to assume the role of the deceased twin. Pick up The Lying Game and ride a rollercoaster of angst, suspicion, and "white-hot fear" with the heroine, Emma Paxton. 

My Thoughts In-Depth: *Warning: May not be spoiler-free.* In such a short time (and in a relatively small amount of pages) Shepard pushed me into the lives of Emma Paxton and Sutton Mercer, the tragedy of Emma's twin's horrifying kidnapping and murder, with ease and such skill...