The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
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Web ID: 5735473Not a great book
I agree with the reviews. It was difficult to get into the book. The ending was definitely poorly written and a disappointment
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Ruth Ware doesn't disappoint
I've read several of Ruth Ware's books. Tense, suspenseful, hard to put down. And when I think I have it figured out, there's always a twist for a surprise ending. Loved it!
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Had a Lot of Potential
I agree with a lot of the other reviews that have mentioned that the book was boring or difficult at least to pick up in the beginning. I admit, it took me a few weeks to fully get into the book well enough to read it consistently. However, I disagree with the shocking amount of complaints regarding the main character being a mother of an infant and the book discussing the dynamics of motherhood and breastfeeding. I think any mother or care taker of a child can relate to all the info that was given and it was relevant information to developing her character. I didn't take issue or even notice any of that... What I will say, though, is that this book offered a lot of promise and had a great deal of potential that I felt was squandered by the way the book turned out in the end. I felt like matters weren't fully wrapped up at the end and I was left with a dissatisfied feeling, like, "what was it all for?" I feel like Ware set the book up for a great and satisfying ending, but did not meet that mark. It felt rushed towards the end. The plot, overall, felt weak. I love her writing style and the way each one of her characters is described and comes alive, and her prose truly is pretty. But the weak plot trumps everything else and therefore left me unsatisfied at the end. Solely because of the unsatisfactory ending, I wouldn't recommend this book compared to say, In a Dark, Dark Wood.
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The Lying Game
Couldn't get into this book. Unless a book picks up by page 25 I'm done with it.
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Boring beyond belief
The characters are total cliches and the calling up of the past is tedious - I’m on page 94 and nothing has happened except dredging up high school memories - so so boring - the death of mrs westawas almost as dull so don’t know why I gave this author another shot - her writing is so cliched as well “a slender stranger with sun-dark limbs and tangled hair...” Please.
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School girls, up to no good.
The story alternates between the past and present. Isa, Thea, Fatima and Kate attended Salten, a boarding school for girls where they participated in “The Lying Game”. For kicks, they told lies to their fellow classmates for points. It was a silly game but kept them occupied and sometimes the consequences of such lies got them in quite a bit of trouble with administration. One night, their loyalty to each other is called into question when something goes wrong and they are forced to do something that they hope will never resurface again. Fast forward to adulthood. The girls are now women, some married and with kids but when Kate sends them a text saying, “I need you.” All three come running. The Lying Game had a lot of promise but it was a bit long, over 400 pages and the secret wasn’t all that juicy. Perhaps the length of the book watered down the big reveal or I didn’t completely buy how close these girls were to each other. It kept me entertained and I was eager to turn the pages but so much of it centered around Isa and her infant daughter who required constant feeding and a lot of the same statements were made over and over again which made me think a good editing job would have really improved the reading experience. I’ve read Ware before and some of her books are great and others just so-so. This one was good but it could have been a lot juicier, in my opinion.
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