Five students walk into detention, they have little in common, other than that they were all caught with phones in class, and all five claim that they were framed and that the phones weren’t theirs. But only four walk out of that detention alive. Number five is dead and the other four all have motive and opportunity. Who is guilty? What really happened? That is the story which unfolds in One of Us is Lying. However, it isn’t the only story that Karen McManus is […]
“I guess we’re almost friends now, or as friendly as you can get when you’re not one hundred percent sure the other person isn’t framing you for murder.”
My sister and I tend to Snapchat pictures of books we’re reading with “I’m bringing this for you to read next time I see you” to one another which has gotten me in the habit of reading books I don’t know the synopsis of going in. One of Us is Lying is one of those books. I worried at first that this was going to be a blatant rip off of The Breakfast Club “She’s a princess and you’re a jock,” he says. He thrusts his chin toward […]
The Breakfast Club, with Murder!
Imagine The Breakfast Club if the geek, jock, criminal and princess hated Ally Sheedy’s basketcase so much that one of them murdered her, and that’s pretty much the premise of One of Us Is Lying. Cooper (jock), Addy (princess), Bronwyn (brain), and Nate (criminal), all wind up in detention on the same afternoon. All swear they’ve been set up and don’t belong there, but the teacher isn’t interested in their excuses. Also there is Simon, owner of a notorious school gossip app. During detention Simon […]
YA and Fantasy Audiobook Splurge
One of Us is Lying 1/5 Over all this is an OK mystery. The setup is that five high school students have been given detentions after school because their teacher found cellphones in their bags. When they’re in detention, one of the group, a hated webmaster and content creator of a gossip website that all the other members of the detention have been involved with before and they all have their little secrets to be protected. Well he dies when he drinks a peanut oil […]
Like Breakfast Club, but with a murder
This was a book where the premise hooked me from the start. Five high-school seniors—a nerd, a jock, a rebel, a princess, and an outsider—are in detention together. One of them is murdered, but only someone in the room could have done it. I saw it on an amazon ad, and although it is not my usual genre, I flipped immediately to my kindle app and got the sample. By the time the sample was over, I was dying to know who did it. The […]
“I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to admit that sometimes they’re just assholes who screw up because they don’t expect to get caught.”
Last year, at my college reunion, I was lucky enough to spend some time catching up with Karen McManus. After we exchanged the usual pleasantries, she told me something unbelievably interesting: she had signed a deal with Delacourte/Random House, and had a YA book coming out in 2017. Amazing, right? So, I waited patiently for the book to come out. And the buzz was crazy, so I started to wait sort of impatiently. And finally, I stopped by my favorite local bookstore and bought it […]
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