It mostly felt like I was reading a normal YA Contemporary fiction with a dash of mystery. The story wasn’t suspenseful and thrilling enough for me. It seemed a bit slower than the first book. It wasn’t a bad read, but it failed to meet my expectations. Well, I ended up liking this book, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the author’s other works. When I heard there’s going to be a sequel with a new set of characters, I was very excited. I loved the author’s One Of Us is Lying, and Two Can Keep a secret.

And this time, there’s a whole new set of rules. Simon’s gone, but someone’s determined to keep his legacy at Bayview High alive. The dares have become deadly, and if Maeve learned anything from Bronwyn last year, it’s that they can’t count on the police for help. Then comes Maeve and she should know better-always choose the dare.īut by the time Knox is about to be tagged, things have gotten dangerous. This time it’s not an app, though-it’s a game. It’s not hard to imagine the book’s sequel, One of Us Is Next, bowing next fall on Peacock.GENRE: Young-Adult, Contemporary, Thriller.Ĭome on, Bayview, you know you’ve missed this.Ī ton of copycat gossip apps have popped up since Simon died, but in the year since the Bayview four were cleared of his shocking death, no one’s been able to fill the gossip void quite like he could. It’s easy to cruise through episode after episode-the show deftly weaves storylines, introduces new questions as fast as it answers old ones, and showcases an appealing cast. While van Grootel is convincingly conflicted as Nate, who only deals drugs because his alcoholic father can’t provide for him, he seems too clean-cut to play the book’s brooding rebel. In the classic teen television casting faux pas, Tejada looks distractingly old for her part-she’s 29-though she plays it well. Cochrane, playing the book’s most unexpectedly complex character, telegraphs Addy’s growing insecurity in her position at the top of the teen food chain while also hinting at her greater reserve of compassion, and Uche conveys depths as a closeted jock in conversations with his little family. The action unfolds quickly over the two episodes, and the writers do a good job with misdirection and obscuring upcoming twists. Should they work together to find out who really did it? Or is one of them, ahem, lying about their innocence? Simon’s allergic attack was no accident, and the police think the four prime suspects were in the room with him when he died. Yet they may be in for a fate worse than public humiliation.

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