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  1. I read One of us is Lying by Karen M McManus
  2. about Karen M McManus, she is a young adult fiction author.
  3. She earned her bachelor's degree in english and
  4. then later her master's degree in journalism.
  5. The book one of us is lying,
  6. spent over 1.5 years on the new york times best seller list.
  7. This book is so popular, it even became a Tv series.
  8. Some more of her books include One of us is next two can keep a secret,
  9. you'll be the death of me,
  10. the cousins and nothing more to tell
  11. book comparison recommendation.
  12. This book is similar to many other murder mystery books
  13. and shows that I've seen but I still liked it.
  14. At a first glance, this book seems like it will be fairly unoriginal,
  15. but once you get into the book there are lots of unexpected twists.
  16. I was able to protect the ending
  17. but I still liked it.
  18. I have never read a book that was structured the way that one of us is lying is
  19. the chapters in this book are
  20. Switched between
  21. the perspectives of the four students
  22. who are being accused of Simon's murder.
  23. Another thing that makes the structure of the book
  24. interesting is that it's set up like a diary,
  25. includes the dates and times to help the reader
  26. get a better understanding of the timeline of events
  27. Character announces.
  28. So there are five main characters in the beginning and then it switches to four.
  29. So Bronwyn is the smart girl of the school.
  30. She is known for her good grades and competitive attitude.
  31. She has always dreamt of going to Yale and following in her dad's footsteps,
  32. Nate is the criminal of the group.
  33. He rarely shows up to school has been
  34. in and out of jail in rides a motorcycle.
  35. He has a bad past and pretty much has been on his own since he was little
  36. addy is the popular mean girl.
  37. All she cares about is cheerleading and her boyfriend.
  38. But once people get to know her, they really like her. In the book.
  39. Cooper is the popular athlete who has a promising career as a baseball player.
  40. His dad has always pushed him to be the best
  41. and now he is being scouted by multiple colleges.
  42. Simon is the kid at school that nobody likes.
  43. He has this gossip app called about that,
  44. where he posts rumors that usually end up being true about his classmates,
  45. which made people obviously not like him,
  46. although in the beginning they seem like
  47. basic book characters throughout the story.
  48. You get to see them
  49. like you have to see a new side of them
  50. that nobody else sees
  51. at their school.
  52. So, a summary of this book.
  53. This book takes place in the town of Bayview.
  54. Simon addie cooper,
  55. Bronwyn and Nate are in detention at their school when
  56. they hear a car crash in the parking lot outside.
  57. So the teacher leaves the classroom to make sure the kids outside our alright when
  58. the kids get to talking Simon starts to have an allergic reaction.
  59. Um
  60. His classmates try to help him,
  61. but his sleeping pattern is missing.
  62. So when they go to the nurse's office, the elephants are also missing from there.
  63. So there's no way they can really help him.
  64. Um So, and then the kids aren't able to save him.
  65. And when the police arrive, they find that his water had um
  66. been spiked with peanut oil
  67. and this race is concerned because the whole
  68. school knows that Simon is allergic to peanuts.
  69. So the police began to question the remaining for students that were in detention,
  70. but
  71. all reassured that they had nothing to do with this.
  72. The cops continue their
  73. investigation and find out that this was definitely
  74. not an accident because all the epipens were missing
  75. and the crash outside was staged to get the teacher out of
  76. the room and make it look like the four students were guilty.
  77. Throughout the book,
  78. police discovered that each one of the kids had a motive for killing Simon
  79. because of the about that chap. He was going out all of their secrets
  80. and this book has many twists that will keep you invested in the story.
  81. So
  82. the about that app,
  83. the about that app is an app where
  84. where Simon Keller would reveal his classmates secrets.
  85. The reason he was able to have this app and not get in trouble
  86. with it for it is because he never said his classmates real names,
  87. He just used their initials,
  88. but everyone could still easily tell who he was talking about
  89. this, made all of his classmates dislike him. Obviously,
  90. Bronwyn Nate addie and cooper all had secrets
  91. that they didn't want Simon to know about.
  92. But after his murder,
  93. police discovered that jobs have been made about each of them in
  94. their secrets and they were set to be published the next week.
  95. This gives all of the students a motive to murder Simon,
  96. even though some of
  97. their secrets actually end up not being true.
  98. The greatest takeaways from this book,
  99. One of them is to always tell the truth.
  100. This book shows that there is no point in lying
  101. because at some point everyone will find out the truth.
  102. Um
  103. this
  104. it's kind of shown in the, about that app.
  105. A lot of the kids lie about what happens in their lives and
  106. stuff to make it seem a lot better than it actually is.
  107. But the truth does end up coming out.
  108. And another thing is,
  109. one of the secrets was that a kid had been cheating who was
  110. a really good student and
  111. that could ruin their chance at getting into the college they wanted.
  112. But in the end, that truth came out and everything ended up being okay.
  113. But there's no point in lying about it in the first place.
  114. Another takeaway from this book is to not judge people based on stereotypes.
  115. Each of the students in this book had been labeled by their students,
  116. but those students haven't actually bothered to get to know
  117. the main characters of this book,
  118. because once you do get to know them throughout the book,
  119. you begin to actually really like them,
  120. and that is it.