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One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

91 reviews

soph22's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I liked it a lot more than I thought I would. It’s like teen show meets murder mystery in one book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Bullying, Cancer, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Outing

matilde66's review against another edition

challenging mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Outing

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Self harm, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, and Alcohol

emmanuella_n's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

It a great book with a strong twist but was a bit on the slow side 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Car accident, and Murder

anwenpullenxx's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

This book is so good! Loved it so much! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

mirjv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment

siennaflynn's review against another edition

mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Cursing, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Murder, and Gaslighting

Minor: Cancer, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Gun violence, Mental illness, Sexism, Transphobia, Car accident, and Death of parent

maytheseason245's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

It’s amazing and you never expect the ending

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Murder

Minor: Car accident

shinaa's review against another edition

hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I would have given it a 5 star rating if not not for the gay part.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Genocide, Murder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Hate crime, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Abandonment

Minor: Self harm and Suicide

I was really happy that

he was the one who killed himself because 1. It fits his character so well to be the one to kill himself and frame people out of spite of everybody and to "be creative" and 2. I liked all four of them and didn't want any of them to be murderers

savreads28's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Car accident, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

wild_mustang's review against another edition

medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes

3.25

It was fine.
Pretty much just teen drama - sex, drugs, alcohol and depression. Oh, and trying to stay out of jail - but to be honest there wasn’t heaps of focus on the murder mystery. At least there wasn’t until the last 100 pages or so.

Personally, I didn’t really care for the romance sub-plots either.

The writing was also in a more juvenile voice than what I normally read, which makes sense because it’s first person perspectives from teenagers, but it took me a little while to get used to. Additionally, many of the plots were very trope heavy and painfully stereotypical at times

However, if was a very easy read and only took like 7hrs so it gets an average 3 star rating. The extra quarter of a star is an appreciation of some of the authors writing choices and the execution of perspective narrations to reveal relevant things in the intended literary light and at the right narrative time.

I recently studied Reader-Response Theory and I think, in this light, McManus did a very good job at writing for the implied reader (so the rating is bumped up), however, I really don’t think that I am the implied or intended reader (so it’s still a fairly average rating).

To take a strategic leaf from Simon’s tumblr…
JT recommended this to me and I’m not mad I read it but I certainly don’t care to continue the series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Homophobia, and Violence

Minor: Addiction, Cancer, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Vomit, Mass/school shootings, Car accident, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail