The students claim the phones are not theirs, but their teacher, Mr. The first part, entitled “Simon Says,” begins with Bronwyn, Nate, Addy, and Cooper serving detention for bringing their phones to class.

Most chapters feature two narrators, and each narrative is date- and time-stamped. I would definitely recommend this to fans of A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson.The novel is divided into three parts. Listening on audiobook, I got Addy and Bronwyn’s voice actors/characters mixed up! I’ve become attached to each of the four, especially since the chapters alternated with their perspectives in first person. The sequel, One Of Us is Next, I am on the fence with since it does not appear to have the same characters one year later. Plus, I don’t have premium so I’m stuck with just seeing one episode haha. I started the first episode and had some reservations. The series has been adapted to the Peacock streaming service. Their secrets getting out made them better and stronger people. It pleased me to see the Bayview 4 (the accused students) develop a friendship from this unfortunate scenario. I suspected the person responsible fairly early, but that did not take away from my enjoyment and the mystery of ‘how’. The distractions, the evidence, and the flimsy alibis all combined to make it seem someone in that detention was responsible. Murder is still murder regardless of how it is done. But then… I was gripped for the rest of the story as more secrets were revealed from Simon the day after his death. Then I was let down with a peanut allergy death. Or are they just the perfect patsies for a killer who’s still on the loose? Everyone has secrets, right? What really matters is how far you would go to protect them.Īt first I was intrigued. But on Friday, he’d planned to post juicy reveals about all four of his high-profile classmates, which makes all four of them suspects in his murder. And according to investigators, his death wasn’t an accident. Before the end of detention, Simon’s dead. Only, Simon never makes it out of that classroom. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing.Ĭooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher.Īnd Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High’s notorious gossip app. On Thursday afternoon, five students at Bayview High walk into detention.īronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule.Īddy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. I could not stop listening to the audiobook, wanting to know how this mystery was going to resolve itself in a modern day high school. What a wild ride of a whodunnit in One Of Us Is Lying.

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