Such Charming Liars
Author: Karen M. McManus
Pages: 320
Genre: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Hook:
For all of Kat’s life, it’s just been her and her mother, Jamie—except for the forty-eight hours when Jamie was married and Kat had a stepbrother, Liam. That all ended in an epic divorce, and Kat and Liam haven’t spoken since.
Now Jamie is a jewel thief trying to go straight, but she has one last job—at billionaire Ross Sutherland’s birthday party. And Kat has figured out a way to tag along. What Kat doesn’t know, though, is that there are two surprise guests at the dazzling Sutherland compound that weekend. The last two people she wants to run into. Liam and his father—a serial scammer who has his sights set on Ross Sutherland’s youngest daughter.
Kat and Liam are on a collision course to disaster, and when a Sutherland dies, they realize they might actually be in the killer’s crosshairs themselves. Somehow Kat and Liam are the new targets, and they can’t trust anyone—except each other.
Or can they? Because if there’s one thing both Kat and Liam know, it’s how to lie.
Rating: 6.9/10
I would maybe recommend this book
Review: So, I’ve read a lot of reviews about this book saying people loved it. I kinda disagre. I usually love Karen McManus and her writing, but for me this book fell short. It was written well, the plot just didn’t really excite me as much as her other books. However, there was a ton of action and I did think the ending wrapped this book up well and was interesting. Kat was a pretty average character in my opinion, because her history was interesting, but some parts of her were boring. If you can’t tell, I’m pretty split on this book: I don’t think it deserves 5 stars and is Karen McManus’s worst book, in my opinion, but that’s still a pretty high bar. Overall, I would say this was an okay book, just nothing special.
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“Karen M. McManus is a #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult thrillers. Her work includes the One of Us Is Lying series, which was turned into a television show, as well as the standalone novels Two Can Keep a Secret, The Cousins, You’ll Be the Death of Me, Nothing More to Tell, and Such Charming Liars. Karen’s critically acclaimed, award-winning books have been translated into forty-two languages.”
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