Never Have I Ever(The Lying Game Series#2) By Sara Shepard

Title: Never Have I Ever

Author: Sara Shepard

Publication Date: 2nd August 2011

Publisher: HarperCollins

My Perfect life was a lie.

Now I'd do anything to uncover the truth.

Not long ago, I had everything a girl could wish for; amazing friends, an adorable boyfriend, a loving family. But none of them know that I'm gone-- that I'm "dead." To solve my murder, my long-lost twin sister, Emma, has taken my place. She sleeps in my room, wears my clothes, and calls my parents Mom and Dad.

And my killer is watching her every move.

I remember little from my life, just flashes and flickers, so all I can do is follow along as Emma tries to solve the mystery of my disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more suspects she uncovers. It turns out my friends and I played a lot of games -- games that ruined peoples lives. Anyone could want revenge. . . anyone could want me-- and now Emma --dead.

The Lying Game Novel series carries on in the 2nd book, we have Emma Paxton who is pretending to be Sutton, her twin sister. Fallen into her twin's life by mistake but is trying to piece a jigsaw why her twin sister was killed and why. Each time Emma digs around and asks questions, she is falling into a bigger trap as the killer is watching her every move and Emma must tread carefully or the killer could get her...

This book was a lot better than the first one, straight away in the first chapter I was getting hooked wanting to read more, trying to complete the jigsaw myself of who could of killed Sutton. Sutton's friends Mads and Charls and Sutton's step sister Laurel are all in the Lying Games, who have all pranked each other in some very strange and bad pranks. Then you have the Twitter twins Gabby and Lili who both just want to be in the lying game gang but Sutton would never let them.

This book was pretty much all about the twitter twins Gabby and Lili who Emma thinks they could of killed her twin sister and Emma has kinda fallen in love with Ethan and the only person she can trust right now and he knows the truth that Emma is pretending to be Sutton. They try to piece together who could be the killer and with every puzzle, it seems to lead them to the twitter twins. Did they kill Sutton?

I just loved all the characters in this book, I loved the relationship between Emma and Ethan, they are just so cute together hehe! the best couple you could say. I also loved that we had Sutton be in the background always following Emma and sometimes got little visions from the past which was great to keep Sutton still in the story even though she is dead.

I was definitely hooked more in this book I think it only took me 2 days to read, every free time i had, I was burried away in this book, either giggling or was hooked trying to figure out the killer.
It is definitely a must read for anyone who loves books similar to Pretty Little Liars.

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The Lying Game By Sara Shepard

Title: The Lying Game

Author: Sara Shepard

Publication Date: 7th December 2010

Publisher: HarperTeen

I had a life anyone would kill for.

Then someone did.

The worst thing about being dead is that there's nothing left to live for. No more kisses. No more secrets. No more gossip. It's enough to kill a girl all over again. But I'm about to get something no else does-an encore performance, thanks to Emma, the long-lost twin sister I never even got to meet. 

Now Emma's desperate to know what happened to me. And the only way to figure it out is to be me-to slip into my old life and piece it all together. But can she laugh at inside jokes with my best friends? Convince my boyfriend she's the girl he fell in love with? Pretend she is a happy, carefree daughter when she hugs my parents good night? And can she keep the charade, even after she realizes my murderer is watching her every move?

Let the lying game begin.

I first read the pretty little liars series books by Sara and I loved them which soon became a TV series. Now I loved the lying game TV series,I thought it was brilliant so when found that there was books on the series I couldn't wait to read.

Now I do want to say if you read these books and seen the TV series then you may end up hating these books. I struggled with the first couple of chapters but I thought no I am going to plod on and carry on and I'm glad I did. I enjoyed it so much.

Now we meet Emma Paxton who's a foster child living in las Vegas with her foster family and a creepy step brother Travis, Emma then finds out she has a twin sister Sutton Mercer who has a perfect family and a perfect happy life until someone kills her and a video goes viral in which Emma is shown the video and then sends a message to her twin sister in which gets a reply saying to meet up..so Emma does a runner and meets up..however there was no Sutton mercer...Emma then falls into her twin Sutton's life to find out what actually happened and who killed her twin?....

This book was such a gripping read and even creepy at times but I'm glad I carried n reading because by the end I couldn't wait to start the next book because didn't want the story to end. I loved Emma Paxton's character not just because she is a foster child but because she was a down to earth girl who had nothing but her Twin was given everything made me feel sorry for her in a way.

I do recommend you all read the books before watching the TV series as the TV program story line is slightly different to the books but still as good.
Even though this book is called The Lying Game, the books you have more details about the lying game and what dangerous pranks the girls did however in the TV series its never really mentioned.

This book will have you gripping to your chair and wanting to help Emma. Go Grab your copy now!

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