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Hide and Seek by Sara Shepard

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rory18's review against another edition

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dark emotional 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? Yes

4.5

dowryofbooks's review against another edition

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4.0

4 / 5 stars

literally anyone: has the slightest negative interaction with emma
emma: spirals into paranoia thinking that person killed sutton and is waiting around every corner to kill her too

I think it’s funny (although slightly annoying at times) that Emma will take the smallest crumb and turn it into hard proof to make any person fit the profile of the killer.

I’m still having the most fun reading this series. It’s so fast paced and the suspense is heavy I’ve been nonstop binging the whole series. This book might be my favorite so far, so much new information was uncovered I feel like we’re actually getting somewhere now. I am LOVING all of the Thayer/Sutton and Thayer/Emma angst. In the show Ethan was my favorite, but book Thayer is something else... whew. I need Emma to have a heart to heart with Thayer and let him in on the secret, I’m hoping for that in the next book.

I also have a pretty solid prediction on who the killer is and I’m just itching to know if I’m right.

ignited_redqueen75's review against another edition

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3.0

I can see now why they changed the tv show adaptation so much because at this point this who done it and accusing everyone they come in contact of who it might be is pretty much annoying at this point. I give the author credit mainly because I couldn't write a book, hell writing a review is even difficult for me but all these extra books are really unnecessary and this whole lying game has become more of let's find out who else has secrets to expose. Maybe for the target age this might be fun and enjoyable but I have to be honest it's repetitive, annoying, and just boring. I hate to say it but for the first time I enjoyed the show better than the books, it's unfortunate that they cancelled it after only 2 seasons. I already own the who series and down this rabbit hole so I will finish hell maybe I will skip to the end just to see who did it so I don't torture myself any further. Again no disrespect to the author I am just not the target audience maybe in my teen years I would have definitely enjoyed this just not now.

ambeesbookishpages's review against another edition

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4.0

What if someone killed
your twin sister?

What if that someone
wanted to hurt you, too?

Would you hide?
Or would you seek revenge?

Mrs. Shepard has done it again, she has blown me speechless. She always seems to though, even with her other series Pretty Little Liars, but this time my praise is for her newer series The Lying Game

Hide and Seek continues following, Emma Paxton a foster child who was forced to take her twin sister, that she had never even met before place. In this installment of the series we learn more about that night at the canyon, as Emma comes closer to solving her sister's murder.

Along the way though she continues to fill Sutton's shoes. Emma goes to school as Sutton, hangs with Sutton's best friends, and even reluctantly continues in participating in The Lying game. The only person who knows about Emma is Ethan, Her current boyfriend. But they are both in the spotlight now as the Hollier High's new IT couple.

Emma is still on the search of Sutton's killer. She cleared her best friends Madeline and Charlotte, and Madeline's brother Thayer. Her newest suspects are Sutton's adoptive sister Laurel and her Father, Mr. Mercer.

Along the way Emma finds out some shocking secrets and though certain people seem to be a good person, that isn't always the case.

Hide and Seek is told from Sutton's point of view. After her death she was tethered to Emma, with no record of her previous life and going through a account of what is happening. As Emma uncovers major turning points in the murder investigation Sutton is throw into flash backs of the night she died. But they always end just in time to keep the killer a secret for a little while longer.

Mrs. Shepard certainly put me in suspense and craving more. 2013 can't come soon enough.

Next installment in the series: Coming out in 2012
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isabella1018's review against another edition

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5.0

4.5 stars because this book is dearly the best one so far.

Ever since the first book I haven't trusted Ethan. I want to like him. Sorry I do like him but I have this gut feeling that he killed sutton and I hope I'm wrong.

_bookdrag0n's review against another edition

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3.0

Throughout this one, I kept finding myself losing interest. Thinking her dad was a suspect just came absolutely out of left field and, while I understand she's searching for the killer and it could be anyone, so far she's picked killers based off of the most juvenile things. then magically Sutton remembers her past and proves them innocent, and then shortly after Emma finds out they're innocent. she's just pointing her fingers at random people saying "it was them" then finding the most absurd "evidence"

meh. i'll keep going just cause I want to say I finished them all, even though I already know who the real killer is