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After discovering that her twin sister, Sutton, is dead, Emma Paxton and Ethan Landry team up to retrace Sutton’s last days on earth. Sutton, whose afterlife seems to have doomed her to an in-between existence, keeps hoping that the pieces of her memory will fall into place, but remains as in... read more
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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,... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Sutton Mercer: Emma's twin sister, caught in an in-between existence after her murder. But Sutton always had a luxurious life. Sutton being part of the group called "The Lying Game" that might have caused the reason for her "passing". Story told in her perspective as a ghost.
- Emma Paxton: A girl in foster care who finds out she has a twin sister. She then goes out to meet her sister, only to find out that her sister is dead. Emma has no choice but to pretend to be Sutton so that the person who killed her sister doesn't kill her.
- Ethan Landry: The kid from school that created his own group and was content with it until....... Emma came along. Emma has feeling for Ethan that no one can explain and she confides in him the things she was never to tell.... that she's not Sutton and that the girl he knew as Sutton was dead. This puts Emma and Ethan in danger.
- Liliana Fiorello: One half of the Twitter Twins; twin sister to Gabbi
- Madeline "Mads" Vega: Sutton's best friend ; Member of the Lying Game that's brother that ran away
- Laurel Mercer: Sutton's sister. Member of the "Lying Game"
- Gabby Fiorello: The other half of the Twitter Twins; sister to Lili. Also a victim of Sutton's "Lying Game" plank that caused and illness.
- Garrett: Sutton's boyfriend when she "passed" and still believes Emma is the girl he loves.
- Becky: Emma & Sutton's birth mother, who abandoned Sutton at birth and Emma at a young age, when Emma was sleeping over her friends house. But Becky has never been seen again, Becky has always been a strange character that Emma could remember.
- Thayer Vega: Madeline's brother, a runaway. That had a past history with Sutton and her non-blood sister.
- Samantha: Works at a clothing store. And goes to prom with someone you will never suspect after events.
- Alex: The closest thing the Emma really had to a best friend that lives in Vegas. Alex is always ready to help Emma in the time of her need. Short for Alexandra.
- Mr. Vega: Madeline's father. But everyone has always been curious of how he treats his children with violence.
- Nisha Banerjee: Sutton's enemy. Also the co-captain of the Tennis team with Sutton.
- Caleb: Laurel's crush and date to the homecoming dance.
- Mrs. Fiorello: Gabbi and Lili's mother.
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“How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?”
Sutton Mercer -
“If they were any more full of themselves, they’d have to have ego liposuction.”
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My enemies are everywhere. And sometimes, those we least suspect turn out to be our biggest threats.
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How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to? It was only after we lost something, after a mother abandoned us, after we died, that we realized what we were missing.
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“Kiss him,” I whispered, feeling like the singing hermit crab in The Little Mermaid.
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IF THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG WITH MY SISTER, IF SHE DOESN’T MAKE IT, I’M GOING TO KILL YOU.
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It’s the little things you miss when you die. The feel of sliding into bed when you’re exhausted, the clean scent in the Arizona air after a storm during monsoon season, the flutter in your stomach when you see your crush walking down the hall.
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“There are a lot of people around to support you if you do. Char, me, Freddy Krueger . . .”
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@GABBYPONYBALONEY: Do you think we should? @MissLiliTallywhacker: Definitely. No turning back now. It all falls into place tonight.
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@GabbyPonyBaloney: Less than an hour to go. That bitch is going down.
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@MissLiliTallywhacker: She thinks we’re so stupid. @GabbyPonyBaloney: She’ll know the truth soon enough. @MissLiliTallywhacker: She’d better be careful. . . .
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One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. It
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First Sentence edit
It's the little things you miss when you die.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
1-A Charmed Life
2-CSI, Tuscon
3-Spinning Her Wheels
4-Paper Trail
5-Extreme Times Call For Extreme Measures
6-A Criminal History
7-The Ultimate Prank
8-Truth or Consequences
9-Daddy's Little Girl
10-Fish Out of Water
11-Nothing Like a Threat at 2 A.M.
12-A Secret of a Different Kind
13-Never Underestimate the Power of Snooping
14-Double the Trouble
15-An Opening...And a Closing
16-An A for Effort
17-X Marks the Spot
18-Tremors and Treachery and Threats, Oh My!
19-The Writing on the Wall
20-Creepy Vampires To the Lefts, Stalkers To the Right
21-Service with a Snicker
22-Tweet,Untweet
23-The Awful Truth
24-The Viking's Revenge
25-Almost,But Not Quite
26-One Down, One Two GO
27-A Shove in the Dark
28-Walled In
29-The Darkest Place in the World
30-The Aftermath
31-Clever Little Bitches
32-The Moment We've Been Waiting For
Epilogue
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 4 in Lying Games. (standard series)
Preceded by The Lying Game, and followed by Two Truths and a Lie.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Sara Shepard (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper Collins
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2, 2011
ISBN: 978-0061869709
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Harper Collins
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 2, 2011
ISBN: 978-0061869709
Page Count: 320
Subjects edit
- Books › Teens › Social Issues
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- The Lying Game #2: Never Have I Ever: The page for the book Never Have I Ever
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