Sunday, May 26, 2019

Book Review - 2 for 1 - One Of Us Is Lying and Two Can Keep A Secret

📖Recommend for Grades 9 and up📖
by Karen M. McManus
            Five students go into detention, but only four come out alive. The school outcast and gossip blog runner Simon is dead and now his fellow detention mates are under suspicion. There’s Bronwyn, the brainy good girl, drug dealer Nate, Cooper, the baseball star, and homecoming queen Addy. They all have the secrets that Simon was about to expose on his blog, which gives them all not only an opportunity but a motive.
            It’s The Breakfast Club meets Pretty Little Liars. Alternating between each of the four teens, readers will get a well-rounded aspect of this who-done-it. As much as you may want to, don’t skip to the end to find out who the liar is.
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📖Recommend for Grades 8 and up📖
by Karen M. McManus
            Twins Ellery and Ezra are moving to Echo Ridge to live with their grandmother. Echo Ridge is a town known for disappearances and murder. When she was seventeen, the twin’s aunt went missing, five years ago the homecoming queen was murdered and upon their entry into town they discover the science teacher’s dead body. As the teens settle into their new town, including jobs at the Halloween themed amusement park, Ellery is nominated to the homecoming court, another nominee has gone missing and there are new threats to be had. Ellery decides to try and figure out the mysteries and gains an ally in Malcolm, whose older brother is suspected of the murder years earlier.
            Despite none of the characters being real stand-outs, readers will still like them. With multiple mysteries, this story is a real page-turner. There is the question of if any or all of these mysteries are connected, and if so, how?

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