The Lying Game
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The text message arrives in the small hours of the night. It's just three words: I need you. Isa drops everything, takes her baby daughter and heads straight to Salten. She spent the most significant days of her life at boarding school on the marshes there, days which still cast their shadow over her. At school Isa and her three best friends used to play the Lying Game. They competed to convince people of the most outrageous stories. Now, after seventeen years of secrets, something terrible has been found on the beach. Something which will force Isa to confront her past, together with the three women she hasn't seen for years, but has never forgotten.
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Boring. Not at all suspenseful. The characters aren't unique or deep enough to compensate for he barebones plot. Obvious after 15% that the dead body is Ambrose and that the girls buried, but didn't murder, him. But the reader is strung along until 50% before that's stated clearly. About a third of the way through, it's clear that either Kate or Luc killed Ambrose, and the other main characters look stupid not to consider the possibility. The characters aren't well drawn enough for the reader to care about the killer's motives.
3.5 stars
the foreshadowing was about as subtle as a brick to the face, but i didn't predict everything that happened. the resolution was a little “rocks fall, everyone dies” (not everyone actually dies). but the overall vibes were excellent and i liked the main characters. so, half good, half not-so-good. it's alright.
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