Adding myself to the list of fellow Cannonballers who have already reviewed One of Us is Lying recently (a few of said reviews made me want to push it further up my to-read pile!) and I must say, it was quite enjoyable! A little mystery involving a setup of various high school students from different groups all ending up in detention together, when suddenly one of them dies and the rest are now suspects in his apparent murder. Right from the start you get a […]
“I know what it’s like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth.”
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 […]
And You Thought YOUR Junior Year Was Rough
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a jock, a homecoming princess, a brain, a stoner and a gossip get stuck in detention, only four of them walk out…because one of them is murdered. And get this, the four living detainees, all have motive for killing the dead kid. But which one was it?? I saw many different reviews for this book on Cannonball Read for a while now and every time, I thought it looked like it was right up my alley…and it was. […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]