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A review by lyakimov
One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
1.0
This book is great if you want to immerse yourself in slut shaming, misogyny, harmful representation of mental illness and suicide, and the unfortunate use of a character’s sexuality as a plot twist!
Everyone with depression is EVIL in this book and there’s not really much discussion about mental health in general even though there absolutely should be, considering the “twist” at the end is that Simon commits suicide and tries to frame everyone for it. Absolutely ridiculous.
This book was BORING AS HELL!!!!! Another issue I have that’s solely based off of the writing and the plot structure is that all the character POVs switching back and forth is so annoying. It’s a stand-alone and you are switching between four people so you don’t really get much with every character, causing their development and arcs to all seem rushed. I didn’t like any of the characters very much or connect with any of the characters. I also didn’t care for the romance at all, it was clearly just thrown in to satisfy the romance requirement for a YA book. The only other Karen McManus book I’ve read is The Cousins, which I read a month ago, and it was okay (I gave it three stars) but now I’m like damn that book was 1000 times better than this one. At least that one had some entertainment factor.
Everyone with depression is EVIL in this book and there’s not really much discussion about mental health in general even though there absolutely should be, considering the “twist” at the end is that Simon commits suicide and tries to frame everyone for it. Absolutely ridiculous.
This book was BORING AS HELL!!!!! Another issue I have that’s solely based off of the writing and the plot structure is that all the character POVs switching back and forth is so annoying. It’s a stand-alone and you are switching between four people so you don’t really get much with every character, causing their development and arcs to all seem rushed. I didn’t like any of the characters very much or connect with any of the characters. I also didn’t care for the romance at all, it was clearly just thrown in to satisfy the romance requirement for a YA book. The only other Karen McManus book I’ve read is The Cousins, which I read a month ago, and it was okay (I gave it three stars) but now I’m like damn that book was 1000 times better than this one. At least that one had some entertainment factor.