One of Us is Next - Karen M. McManus

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Title: One of Us is Next (One of Us is Lying #2)
Author: Karen M. McManus
Genre: YA, suspense
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 374
Date read: July, 2022

It is a year after the action of One of Us Is Lying, and someone has started playing a game of Truth or Dare.

But this is no ordinary Truth or Dare. This game is lethal. Choosing the truth may reveal your darkest secrets, accepting the dare could be dangerous, even deadly.

The teenagers of Bayview must work together once again to find the culprit, before it's too late . . .


Started this on my way to work yesterday and finished it before I went to bed. It was absolutely unputdownable and every bit as much of a page turner as the first book in the series. Most of the characters rang true, and I loved reading about the different relationships ebb and flow, change and grow. (And almost cried when Maeve... but that's a spoiler, so I'll leave it there).

But any full review will have to include a spoiler-tag, because that ending was one of the hugest wtf'eries I've encountered in a very long time. Karen McManus blows the reader's mind and then just... ends the book. I turned the page, certain there'd be more, but nope! But for once I actually didn't mind the abrupt ending at all. It worked.

Will definitely keep an eye out for the next book in the series!