AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: KAREN M. MCMANUS

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT: KAREN M. MCMANUS

"Karen M. McManus is the author of the New York Times and international bestselling young adult novels One of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep a Secret. Her work has been translated into 40 languages worldwide. Karen lives in Massachusetts and holds a master's degree in Journalism from Northeastern University, which she mostly uses to draft fake news stories for her novels."


Published Works:
One of Us Is Lying     2017
Two Can Keep a Secret     2019
One of Us Is Next     2020
The Cousins (expected publication date: December 2020)


https://www.karenmcmanus.com/
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Karen M. McManus surprised me. I had heard the hype surrounding One of Us Is Lying and wasn't sure I wanted to read it. I tend to ignore overly hyped books unless something about them jumps out to me. I'm not sure if this is a good way to approach books but it is what it is. I finally broke down and read One of Us Is Lying and loved it. I read Two Can Keep a Secret and One of Us In Next and I'm still intrigued. She writes characters that the reader roots for. They are complex yet seem approachable. I look forward to reading more of her work.


**Bio above is from her Goodreads page and is not my personal words.

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Lying By Karen M. McManus

Published by Delacorte Press

Published on May 30, 2017

Genres: Mysteries, Thrillers, YA

Page Count: 368

Source: Purchased

Format: Hardback

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Description: Pay close attention and you might solve this.

On Monday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.

      Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. 

      Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. 

      Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.

      Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.

      And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app.

Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Before the end of detention Simon's dead. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. On Monday, he died. 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. Or are they the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose? 

Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.

Hello Readers.

I ordered a copy of this book after it was recommended to me. I thought that I would give it a chance. It looked like it had promise. I could not stop reading this book! I had to stop because life but I thought about it while I was not reading it. Kept me on my toes. Found myself trying to guess the ending. Some mysteries have a way of exposing their secrets early on. This book was full of little breadcrumbs to lead us through the story but did not give too much away. 

I am rating this book Five Blue Books because it was a geniunely great read. Strong story, likeable characters, relatable, and surprising. It is one that I will be reading again. Will be looking into other works by this author. I strongly recommend it.

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