The lying game

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Ruth Ware, Ruth Ware: The lying game (2017, Gallery Books)

370 pages

English language

Published Dec. 22, 2017 by Gallery Books.

ISBN:
978-1-5011-5600-7
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OCLC Number:
962005626

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4 stars (4 reviews)

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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reviewed The Lying Game by Ruth Ware

Quick mostly engaging read

3 stars

I This novel kept me engaged. I think it's strongest points are prolly the fallacy of human decision. At the end, it feels like the characters really didn't learn anything which maybe is reminiscent of real life. I wasn't really ever bored of reading though, so I'll give it a mid review

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Subjects

  • Female friendship
  • Fiction
  • Secrecy