The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Knox and Phoebe are white, Maeve has Colombian ancestry, and Bayview is a diverse community.
Plenty of secrets and surprises will keep readers captivated until the satisfying end. Shifting perspectives keep the pace steady while McManus ( Two Can Keep a Secret, 2019, etc.) deftly weaves in commentary on the justice system, bullying, and slut shaming. Maeve thinks she’s having a leukemia relapse, Phoebe slept with her sister’s boyfriend, and Knox interns at a legal aid firm whose staff members are receiving death threats. The Bayview Four make appearances, but the compelling heart of the story is the three main characters’ family drama and personal struggles. Was it an accident, or was it murder? High school juniors Maeve, Phoebe, and Knox find themselves caught up in the mystery of who’s behind the texts. The game mostly causes an entertaining stir-until a student winds up dead. If you choose truth (or don’t respond), one of your secrets is revealed. Now an anonymous person is sending Truth or Dare messages to the students of Bayview High, and this time no one is safe. Last year in a San Diego suburb, a gossip app led to a death and inspired weak copycats.
Update: The text of this review has been adjusted for clarity.A dangerous texting game comes to Bayview High in this sequel to One of Us Is Lying (2017). Agent: Rosemary Stimola, Stimola Literary Studio. Main characters cue as white the supporting cast is ethnically diverse. The central whodunit spirals into myriad tertiary puzzles, making for a serpentine read rife with convincing red herrings and ground-shifting reveals. Brynn and Tripp’s candid, emotionally complex alternating first-person accounts enrich character while imparting immediacy and drive. Shortly thereafter, Brynn and her family relocated to Chicago, but now they’re back in Sturgis, and Brynn intends to use her re-enrollment at Saint Ambrose-and her internship-to uncover the thorny truth surrounding Mr. Though fingerprints from one of the trio were found on the murder weapon, the group was purportedly never suspected, and the case went cold. When Brynn was an eighth grader at Saint Ambrose prep school in Sturgis, Mass., three classmates, including Brynn’s estranged best friend, Tripp Talbot, went into the woods and stumbled across the corpse of the school’s popular new English teacher, William Larkin. Desperate for a win after she’s fired from her school newspaper and wait-listed by her dream college, Brynn Gallagher, 17, lands an internship at a true crime TV show by pitching a story from her own past in McManus’s (You’ll Be the Death of Me) most impressive mystery yet.
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