The Lying Game

Over winter break I started reading a series of books called The Lying Game, by Sara Shepard. The books are about a girl named Emma who has a twin sister named Sutton, but does not know it. One day, she is going to Tucson, Arizona and sees a video of a girl who looks exactly like her. She knows it is not her because she didn’t make the video. When she gets to Tucson, people start to call her Sutton because she looks exactly like Sutton. Earlier in the day, she had gotten a message saying to meet somebody in a forest and the note said not to tell anyone because it might be dangerous. So, she did not tell anyone. When she got to Tucson and people started calling her Sutton, she got scared and was afraid to tell anyone that she was not Sutton due to the note. The next day, when she is going to school and pretending to be Sutton, she gets another note saying, “Sutton is dead, keep playing along.” She is really nervous. Emma, pretending to be Sutton, is having a hard time figuring out what is what, who is who and so on. She figures it out and is good at pretending to be Sutton.

Later in the book, Emma realizes that Sutton has several friends who are all in a group called the “Lying Game”. This is a group of girls who all pull pranks on each other. They pull very big pranks, such as Sutton and her friends playing a prank in Nisha, a girl they did not like. They had a fake cop tell Nisha that he had to investigate her locker. This really scared Nisha. Sutton’s friends asked Emma (pretending to be Sutton) when are you going to do a really big prank? This made Emma wonder if Sutton is just playing a prank on her to get her to Tucson.

Then, throughout the book, Emma is trying to figure out who murdered Sutton one person at a time and whether this is all one big prank on her. I really enjoyed this book because it kept my attention through the whole book. The reason I picked this book was because the description on the back caught my eye. It said “I had a life anyone would kill for, and then someone did.” I thought this sounded like a really good book and it was. There are also two other books after The Lying Game in this series and the fourth one is coming out this spring.