The Lying Game: A Novel
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781501156007 (1501156004)
ASIN: 1501156004
Publish date: 2017-07-25
Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
I ended up reacting to this book much as I did to Ruth Ware's Woman in Cabin 10. I felt compelled to keep listening and listening until I got to the end, but once I was done, I wondered why I'd spent all that time. The "lying game" of the title doesn't ultimately seem that significant to the cent...
So Ruth Ware keeps doing this. She has an interesting idea that she can't quite get off the ground floor when it comes for the full book. "The Lying Game" is about a group of four friends who used to play a game that involved lying with rules. Rule 1: Tell a Lie Rule 2: Stick To Your Story Rule 3...
This is the first book I've read by Ware despite having had my eye on her previous books. I now regret not having picked them up sooner. I was immediately drawn into the story of four tight knit teenagers who met at a coastal boarding school called Salten. They developed the lying game where they wo...
Three and a half star rating.Four well to do girls meet at a coastal boarding school immediately forming a clique but they weren't very nice to anyone else - why tell the truth when you can lie? This friendship continues over the next 15 or so years when any can call on the others for help despite t...
Warning: this is LONG!Books about boarding school have sucked me in before, so much so that they led me to attend one (I actually asked); we were living in Hong Kong at the time and I went to school in Sussex, just as in Ruth Ware's 'The Lying Game'. I couldn't resist making this one of my picks for...