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Sutton Mercer is a bitch--at least used to be. I'm sorry, but there's no better word to describe her. We start The Lying Game with Sutton finding out she's dead--well, actually, she's a ghost. A ghost no one can see or hear but us. She wakes up in the middle of a bathroom and see a girl who looks exactly like her. Soon, she learns this is Emma--and it seems Emma and Sutton are sisters, twins, actually--and Emma's life is nothing even close to Sutton's.
Sutton can't remember a lot about her own life--but she does remember she doesn't know about her lost twin sister--, and now she's following Emma wherever the girl goes. Emma's in trouble when her foster brother steals money from her foster mother and puts it into Emma's purse. It is just another foster home, Emma's been in tons of them, and soon she'll turn 18 and won't need to keep trying to fit into any other family. But when the boy shows her a video of a girl being strangled--a girl who looks exactly like her--, she starts wondering if it's possible the girl is her sister.
With the internet's help, she finds out the girl's Sutton, and send her a message on Facebook. Soon, there's an answer--asking her to meet Sutton on the day after. There's only one problem--that Emma has no idea about it--, Sutton has never got that message, because she's dead. Period. Sutton's ghost is pretty sure about it. Things go crazy when Emma is waiting for Sutton and Sutton's friend show up, calling her Sutton. It happens that Sutton has asked Emma to not tell anyone about each other, so Emma tries to be nice and plays along when Sutton's friends drag her to a party. Soon, Emma learns that Sutton isn't around--actually, an anonymous note tells her Sutton's dead, and if she doesn't keep pretending to be her twin, she's gonna be the next.
Confusing, isn't it? Well, it gets worse. Emma soon realizes that Sutton wasn't the best person, or the best friend someone could ever had around. Her lost twin and her girls have what they call The Lying Game, some kind of game where they make pranks. The problem is: they make it to other people, and they make it to each other.
Emma knows she's in danger, whoever killed Sutton has been watching her. She can trust nobody--and she can't tell anyone who she really is, although she's tried, nobody believes--, and she needs to keep lying to everyone, she needs to pretend she's someone she's never met before. Sutton had everything Emma always dreamed about: she has a family that loves her--even though they know Sutton isn't the best person in the world--, she's popular, she's a boyfriend and a group of friends--who're as bitch as Sutton, but, well, they kinda deserve each other, in my opinion...
We see the entire story through Sutton's ghosts eyes, although we're always following Emma's steps. Sutton's ghost gets some flashbacks from some things Emma sees--so there are a few flashbacks chapters--, and we clearly see how different the sisters are. Even if sometimes Sutton's ghost questions things about herself as Emma learns more about her, it's there, you can see it.
The Lying Game did not reach my expectations. I was expecting much more of this book--I haven't read anything from Shepard before it, but I saw people saying it's way much better than Pretty Little Liars. I've watched the TV series, but it never really got me, so I was kind of expecting the book to do it. Unfortunately, it didn't. Probably because I found myself frustrated with the ending: it kinda got you nowhere...
I always try to avoid spoilers on my reviews, and rereading this one to make sure I haven't tell anything that compromise the reading, I found myself asking what I didn't tell about the story. Honestly, there's only one twist that I haven't mentioned here--and that's it. I'm going to read Never Have I Ever, the second book on this series, in hopes that this story will get better.
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