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One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

145 reviews

bookish_bae's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.75

Very good romance, page turner, hard to guess ending 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Outing, Grief, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Minor: Car accident, Drug abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Self harm, and Alcoholism

suicide and school shootings

they_them10's review

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Outing, Abandonment, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Minor: Suicide and Self harm

jhews's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Drug abuse, and Addiction

keliphenix's review

challenging dark mysterious fast-paced

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

5.0

i love how the main four characters are supposed to be these 1 dimensional characters & super cliché but by the end of the book, they have personalities & have grown out of the cliché. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mass/school shootings, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Drug abuse, Outing, and Suicide attempt

calypso_the_oboe's review

dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Addiction, Homophobia, Self harm, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Misogyny

Minor: Toxic friendship, Car accident, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

violetbentbackwards1036's review

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Alcoholism, Drug use, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Grief, Outing, Gaslighting, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Murder, Suicide, Death of parent, Homophobia, Violence, Bullying, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Cursing, Addiction, Infidelity, Medical content, Racism, and Toxic relationship

grace_cr1's review against another edition

lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Murder, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Homophobia, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Grief, Mental illness, Outing, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Drug abuse, Cancer, Death, Mass/school shootings, and Self harm

olive_lol's review

mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.0

Overall, this book was decent, but not my thing. I only really got invested in the final third, where the mystery started picking up. I wasn't a fan of how the POV characters were all high school steryotypes, though those were defied later. I liked the end of the book much more than I liked the begining. An alright read, but I think someone else could enjoy it more than I did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing and Suicide

Moderate: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Death, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Vomit, Cursing, Cancer, Drug abuse, and Mass/school shootings

ewarde's review

dark mysterious 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Outing, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Transphobia, Mass/school shootings, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

fe_aye's review against another edition

adventurous informative mysterious 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

3.5

Solid book. I almost ended up DNFing due to my lack of meshing with the characters at the beginning, but as I kept reading they really grew on me. I didn’t much care for the character to begin with but after they had some development they really got much better, especially Addy. 
It was also very well crafted and the resolution was both surprising yet grounded worked really well, I’m glad I stuck with this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abandonment, Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Alcoholism, Homophobia, Outing, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Murder

Moderate: Bullying, Classism, Confinement, Mental illness, and Gun violence