One of Us Is Lying

This is one of those books that you will not be able to put down. I started this book at breakfast, planning on reading it slowly, but ended up not being able to do anything else until I finished. The writing was just that good, gripping and compelling. It all seemed rather believable too. 

The plot pretty straight-forward, the mystery of Simon's death being solved. At the same time, figuring out the killer, is a wild ride. It is made even more interesting by the fact that we are told the story through Addy, Cooper, Bronwyn, and Nate's perspectives. So, as the plot moves forward the reader is feeling more attached to the characters, and less likely that these characters are killers. 

The characters themselves are quite distinct from each other, making them easy to tell apart and giving the reader different people to connect to. The characters are not just one dimensional though, because as the book progresses we learn more about them while they also grow. Even the side characters, at least some of them like Janae, even are more than decoration or plot tools and feel real too. While the characters do start out stereotypes (jock, nerd, criminal, popular kid, outcast), they all can connect to different types of readers and then as they grow and become more, I feel this can help the readers too.

I would recommend this book to more than just young adults, to all people who enjoy a good mystery that gets their heart pounding.