Books and Television

Hello all!

YA books are being made into television and movies left and right.  This alone is making the YA book industry explode (in my humble opinion) and is also affecting how much kids are reading (thank goodness).  From Harry Potter to the most recent Hunger Games series, kids who would curl their noses up and walk away are actually picking up books!  Woohoo!  Here is one of such books:

The Lying Game by Sara Shepard


My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Emma has been in foster care almost her entire life. Her mother, Becky left her, which to Emma was worse than knowing she was dead – to not be wanted. When her foster brother shows his mother a video of a girl who looks just like Emma, titled “SuttoninAZ”, being strangled in the desert, Emma’s life turns upside down. Then he accuses her of stealing money from his mother. Not believing in her innocence, the foster mom tells her that on her 18th birthday (in 2 weeks) she is going to have to move out of the house. Emma finds the video herself and watches it over and over, hardly believing what she sees. Her mom had always done spooky things, like buy her two of everything. Could she have a twin that her mother had given up for adoption? Emma, via the Internet, is able to find out where Sutton lives, contacts her, packs her bags and heads out on a bus to Arizona. When she arrives at the meeting spot, no one is there. One of Sutton’s friend’s finds her and escorts her to a party calling her “Sutton” and Emma loses her identification and bag she brought with her. Emma attempts to tell Sutton’s parents and the police both that her name is Emma. Sutton is her sister and she fears she has been murdered. No one believes her. There is more to Sutton than Emma knows. Sutton and her friends had created “The Lying Game” which involved trying to out prank each other, which is what the desert scene was. Emma tries to escape, but receives death threats and notes that she should keep pretending to be Sutton or she will die too. The only one that realizes she isn’t Sutton is Ethan, a loner who actually likes Sutton for herself (not even Sutton’s boyfriend can tell the difference). While Emma tries to find out what happened to her sister, Sutton’s spirit follows her with very little memories of her life and wanting to know just as badly who killed her. Leaves you with a lot of unanswered questions that will definitely be continued in further books.





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