Lying Game #1

I was a huge fan of the Lying Game TV show, and when it was cancelled (ABC Family always seems to cancel the best shows without a conclusion to them), I decided that that best thing for me to do was to get the entire series and read them, that way I could at least have some idea of what the writers of the show were using as their basis for plots. As of yet, I have only read the first novel, and it was decent. Obviously written for a middle school (or less) reader, but that doesn’t make the story any less intriguing.

Emma couldn’t believe it when her foster brother showed her a YouTube video of her doing unspeakable things, and after the viewing her foster family kicker her out. Freaked about the look alike, Emma went online to find the girl, what she found was more than a look alike, she found a twin sister, separated from birth. Excited beyond all reason Emma heads to Arizona to meet her sister, only her sister never shows. Everyone in town is calling her Sutton, her sister’s name. Emma keeps waiting for her sister to pop up and yell surprise, only she never does. That’s when Emma starts to get strange notes and emails, telling her to keep her mouth shut or they’ll kill her to.

Emma is scared, and trying to fit into the mold that her parents and friends expect of wealthy, well-to-do Sutton. She can’t tell anyone what is really happening, but one person realizes she isn’t Sutton. A boy from the wrong side of the tracks, who Sutton had a secret relationship with, knows that Emma isn’t who she ways she is. Emma enlists his help is trying to figure out what happened to her sister, but at what cost?

I loved the show, and at least as of book one, it seems to somewhat follow the shows first episodes of season one. The only thing that I don’t like about this book series so far *****SPOILER: is that Sutton appears to actually be dead, and is seeing through Emma’s eyes and provides a somewhat annoying commentary throughout the book.*****

I will defiantly continue this series, when I have more time. Some week when I have nothing to do and can plow through a novel a day.