REVIEW: One Of Us Is Lying

One Of Us Is Lying
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Rating: 4.5/5

Five students have detention one afternoon. There's Cooper, the golden boy and star baseball player trying to decide between college and the major leagues; Bronwyn, the class valedictorian who plans to follow her family's legacy and go to Yale; Addy, one-half of the picture-perfect couple and a homecoming princess; Nate, the bad boy, on probation for dealing drugs (and still selling them not so secretly); and Simon, the despised (and kind-of feared) creator of About That, Bayview High's gossip blog. They're all in detention for something none of them did, and they can't understand why the teacher doesn't believe them.



Before detention is over for the day, Simon is dead, and apparently, it wasn't an accident. It's not long before investigators discover that the next day, Simon was planning to publish posts  about Cooper, Bronwyn,  Addy  and Nate—posts which could potentially destroy all of their lives. Suddenly the four of them are the suspects in Simon's murder, and are pariahs among their fellow students, most of whom hated Simon until he died, then turned him into a tragic figure.


They all have secrets. Is any one of them lying  or somebody else got involved in Simon's murder.
All four of them who were not really friends are together in this. Are they all innocent ? But there is something they all are hiding.

I won't be surprised if this book will be turned into a movie, because its one of the best books of this year.
The author has done no doubt an amazing job with this, How she wraps up the whole story I just love it.

The actual plot was a thrilling and interesting one, but it was the characters who circled it that really compelled me to keep reading. 


I was guessing right up to the end who the killer was, and I never saw WHO it was coming. How it was planned was so awesome and creative.

The story was written so well and we are told through multiple first person POV. Having to switch POV didn't take away from the story, you could easily tell who POV you were reading.

Thank you, Karen M. McManus for such an amazing book and I am fan. I'll gladly buy anything she writes next.

All in all if you love mystery novels with twist and secrets please pick up this book, you won't be disappointed!


It was fun, cute, suspenseful and overall great!

Thank you so much Penguin Random House for sending me this book for review !