Simon Kelleherĭespite his secret desire to be popular, Simon still views himself as an outcast by punishing those who won’t accept him. If people didn’t lie and cheat, I’d be out of business. He has made a name for himself by shaming the people who don’t like him. He does not want the blame and rather says, They also introduce the main antagonist, Simon Kelleher, who is the creator of the app ‘About That’. The setting of the story and the characters’ backgrounds foreshadow the harmful effects of social media and gossip. The book opens with Bronwyn logging in the ‘About That’ app to check the weekly update. Throughout the book, we don’t have a narrator, it is written giving the point of view of these four characters. Cooper Clay- the star of the baseball team. Addy Prentiss- the prom queen, who is holding the cracks in her life. Nate Macauley, a drug addict, the one with previous criminal conviction. It is a young adult suspense novel which brings us across the lives of four high schoolers- Bronwyn Rojas, a geek, who has publicly never broken a rule. The book was New York Times bestseller for 129 weeks. Published in 2017, One of Us is Lying, marks Karen McManus’s debut novel. McManus doesn’t allow you to easily guess who committed the crime, and also keeps you guessing until the end. Scroll down for one of us is lying book review.
The book is short and doesn’t have a lot of story lines, so you want to keep reading to find out who killed the person. In “One of Us is Lying,” which is written by Karen McManus, five students at a high school get locked up together. She has a master’s degree in journalism.Modern mystery books are just as interesting as classic novels. McManus is the bestselling author of the young adult thrillers One of Us Is Lying, One of Us Is Next, You’ll Be the Death of Me, Nothing More to Tell, and Two Can Keep a Secret. I know what it’s like to tell yourself a lie so often that it becomes the truth. Things’ll get worse before they get better. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose?Įveryone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them. But on Tuesday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. Before the end of detention Simon’s dead. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.Ĭooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.Īnd Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.īronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.Īddy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess.
Pay close attention and you might solve this. Audiobook Length: 10 hours and 43 minutes
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