Recommendations: Not as good as the first but a worth while sequel, that lets you spend a little time with characters you loved from the first book. This one took too long to get the mystery started, McManus chose to catch everyone up to what characters in the last book were up to first before trying into the new mystery.
What I Disliked: The flow was messy at times, making chapters feel overly long. I liked side characters like Luis getting a bigger role in this. The final twist was really good, there was someone that was obviously involved in the plot, that I was disappointed because of how glaringly obvious it was, but the final twist added an extra layer to it that I liked. The mystery was way more involved but good, it needed better pacing, but looking at all the twist and turns it was pretty solid. The finally was exciting and involved characters new and old. I liked the character of Knox most of all, and is was good to see a genuine good character get beaten down but chose to say good and ends up not finishing last. What I Liked: I Liked that we got to see characters from the first book still grow in this book. Mauve who helped solve the last mystery, is with out her brainiac sister Bronwyn this time. Dares start happening over town, until death happens. Phoebe is ridiculed in school and soon everyone starts taking it seriously. Phoebe is the first victim as she refuses to play and gets a huge truth bomb delivered that she slept with her sister’s boyfriend. There have been a couple of copycats but nothing has stuck around until Truth or Dare, you either take a date or get a truth revealed. The Plot:18 months after the what happened in the last book, Bayview High is finally getting back to normal, the school has just recently allowed cell phones back after all the trouble with Simon’s gossip App. I did not like this book as much as the first one, but this is a pretty good follow up book with a good mystery and lots of characters I already loved and a couple new ones too.
There was a late twist almost at the end that I was not excepting. Instead of 4 characters perspectives, we get 3 which was okay but it took away the rapid paced smaller chapters of the first one. The mystery is way more complex, it reminded me of the newest Veronica Mars storyline. The book for the most part does a good job of blending the new characters with the old, I did feel at beginning it was too much of the new characters. In this one the story is more complex, and the novel pulls double duty introducing us to new characters, while catching us up with the old characters from the first book. One of Us is Next by Karen McManus is the sequel to the best selling One of Us is Lying.
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