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One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

146 reviews

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

ellia's review

challenging emotional mysterious reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Alcoholism, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Outing, Mental illness, Drug abuse, Addiction, Suicide, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent, Chronic illness, Mass/school shootings, Gun violence, and Car accident

alexreads1023's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Addiction, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Classism, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Homophobia, and Panic attacks/disorders

thebookpaiges's review

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Suicide, Murder, Violence, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Classism, Mental illness, and Death of parent

livvysbooks's review

hopeful mysterious 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? No

3.5

Nate and brownwyn are an amazing couple - and addys character development is so good bc at first she was insecure and always following Jake’s rules but then she became independent and just great. It does get a bit slow but then it speeds up again eventually. Also, it’s lacking tension which is why I prefer the sequel to it more (one of us is next) which is unpredictable and full of suspense.

i would’ve never in a million years predicted that Simon killed himself and Jake helped him

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Abandonment, Drug abuse, Addiction, and Cancer

Minor: Homophobia

raedoye's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

4.0

This book was like breakfast club mixed with gossip girl, mixed with 13 reasons why. At first I thought it would be cheesy reading about high schoolers, but I got into it really quickly. The characters are just so loveable. The book also had a lot of super serious and deep topics, but I feel like they were addressed in a tactful way. It dealt with a lot of real world issues that people have today without being too sad or depressing. Would recommend this book- and it was easy to read and big font lol so I liked that

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Drug abuse, Violence, Suicide, and Alcoholism

madi622's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

the only way i can think of describing this book is "the breakfast club meets murder." the writing style was so captivating. i was on the edge of my seat trying to find out who killed who, who framed who, and who did what to who.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, and Outing

Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse

delaneyreadsalot's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-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? It's complicated

3.75

this book was sooo good but it want one of my favorites. nate is definitely my favorite character though. i really wish we got to see more from him.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Murder, Addiction, Child abuse, Drug abuse, and Drug use

hannnahk's review

dark mysterious tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

sassyram's review

tense medium-paced

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

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Outing, Bullying, Homophobia, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Death, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Mass/school shootings