Karen M. Mcmanus returns with her final installment in the “One of us is lying” series.
Our Bayview crew is just trying to spend a normal, happy, jovial summer before all of them can go back to their routine life. However when a billboard suddenly shows an eerie message, no one is certain how summer is actually going to be. The message?
Time for a new game, Bayview
First the bayview four had to prove themselves innocent in the Simon Kelleher case. Then the next generation had to deal with a new game of truth & dare and now another deathly game has arrived and it has targeted each & everyone because the only thing different about this game is : there are no rules.
When one of our bayview club gets abducted, everyone understands that the game is no longer any trivial issue but a matter of life & death. The police, as ever, proves to be hopeless, so our protagonists do what they have to do: take the matter into their own hands.
If I had to rate this series, I’d say that this book was the best. Although I would suggest reading the three books consecutively. I read the previous two a few years back and honestly I couldn’t remember the stories accurately which I should have remembered because this tale links with the previous two.
Im a bit disappointed, though. I was expecting the game to be a bit more sinister. Well, what could be more sinister than murder but the game was kind of overshadowed by Jake Riordan and his story. The billboard thing just happens twice and out of 42 chapters, the boards are only put under spotlight for like 1.5 chapters. What I want to say is that the billboard arc should’ve been a bit more mysterious. And of course there should’ve been a bit more to that. Some messages or some new commercial or anything I don’t know!
But I appreciate the sense of reality, Karen M. Mcmanus books always portray. Not every teenager is stuck in a romantic love triangle neither does any typical highschool student has the means & privileges to pull off a Blair Waldorf. A typical highschooler also doesn't deal with murrder on a regular basis but it's a YA mystery , we don't want to read about stolen sandwiches.
First the bayview four had to prove themselves innocent in the Simon Kelleher case. Then the next generation had to deal with a new game of truth & dare and now another deathly game has arrived and it has targeted each & everyone because the only thing different about this game is : there are no rules.
When one of our bayview club gets abducted, everyone understands that the game is no longer any trivial issue but a matter of life & death. The police, as ever, proves to be hopeless, so our protagonists do what they have to do: take the matter into their own hands.
If I had to rate this series, I’d say that this book was the best. Although I would suggest reading the three books consecutively. I read the previous two a few years back and honestly I couldn’t remember the stories accurately which I should have remembered because this tale links with the previous two.
Im a bit disappointed, though. I was expecting the game to be a bit more sinister. Well, what could be more sinister than murder but the game was kind of overshadowed by Jake Riordan and his story. The billboard thing just happens twice and out of 42 chapters, the boards are only put under spotlight for like 1.5 chapters. What I want to say is that the billboard arc should’ve been a bit more mysterious. And of course there should’ve been a bit more to that. Some messages or some new commercial or anything I don’t know!
But I appreciate the sense of reality, Karen M. Mcmanus books always portray. Not every teenager is stuck in a romantic love triangle neither does any typical highschool student has the means & privileges to pull off a Blair Waldorf. A typical highschooler also doesn't deal with murrder on a regular basis but it's a YA mystery , we don't want to read about stolen sandwiches.
Overall the book was good. I'd say its worth your time. And karen mcmanus’s books are always a light read. Finish it in a day or two. Also they are very effective in healing reading slumps.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
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