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One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
2.0

Okay. So. Not what I thought this was going to be, lol.

What a boring mystery thriller. Not that I'm the target audience for content like this, but I actually enjoy the silliness of YA mysteries but this one was boring. Had I known this would be an exploration of each character's personal life more than the twists and turns of why and how this one kid died during detention I probably would have never picked this up.

This is just typical teen drama with not much else thrown in until the very end. We get some sprinkles of these teens speaking to police as we uncover the case of what happened, but most of this is just reading about who kissed who, who likes who, who is or isn't gay, etc, which I personally did not care about. I didn't like any of these characters enough to be intrigued about their mundane situations outside of the crime case.

There's more to be said but other one and two star reviews have said it better than me. I'm just disappointed. Or, maybe not, because I didn't have high expectations for this series to begin with