Emma goes to school as Sutton, plays tennis as Sutton and pretty much just takes over her life. Emma is dragged to a party where she steps into pretending to be Sutton.Įmma continues the 'game' as Sutton, going so far as to go to her house and take up being Sutton. Emma is instead found by Sutton's friends. Emma arrives and goes to the designated meeting spot, but there is no Sutton. Emma then finds her on face book of all places and sends her a message.Īfter a little while Emma receives a reply from who she believes is Sutton and then heads to Arizona, to meet the twin she never knew. Emma finds out that she has a twin due to a video showed to her and her foster mother by her foster brother.

We still get that Emma is in foster care and her foster brother is a jerk. So there is the first major difference from the show. Sutton Mercer is the narrator in the book, and as you will find out from the beginning she's dead. So I will tell all of you now.The show is TOTALLY different from the book!! I understand now why everyone was telling me to read the book and not just watch the show. There are quite a few mysteries going on besides the bigger mystery of Sutton and I'm excited to read the next one. The same goes for her friends and sister. She is such an enigma and I feel like there is a whole lot about her that has yet to be explored.

And the whole concept of the Lying Game that Sutton and her friends play. All of the characters are so well drawn that I can picture them in my head. But now, after reading The Lying Game, I do and I'm definitely reaching for the first one of that series. Having never read the Pretty Little Liars series, I didn't have any ideas of Shepherd's style. NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! It is a series so I guess I should have expected that. And then the book ended with no real answer. I was sucked in almost immediately and spent the whole book jumping from person to person as the suspect. This is a carefully woven tale of games people play, lies they tell and feelings that get hurt and the vengeful road that leads down. Figuring out that she must have a twin, she goes to the girl's hometown only to end up impersonating her twin sister, Sutton, while trying to figure out what happened to the real girl and who is out to get them both.Gossip Girl meets Desperate Housewives meets Lois Duncan. When she sees a disturbing video online with a girl that looks exactly like her, she wonders what is going on. The Little BookwormEmma is a foster kid bouncing from house to house.

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