The Lying Game #5: Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
Written by Sara Shepard
Narrated by Cassandra Morris
4/5
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About this audiobook
The search for Sutton’s killer continues in this fifth title in the suspenseful and twisted Lying Game series by Sara Shepard, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Pretty Little Liars series.
Ever since Sutton Mercer's murderer tricked her long-lost twin, Emma, into coming to Tucson, Emma has been trying to solve the mystery of Sutton's death. And now someone else is back in town—Becky, Sutton and Emma's birth mother.
As Emma gets closer to discovering what exactly happened the night Sutton was killed, she learns that Becky isn't all that she seems. Turns out Sutton wasn't the only Mercer girl with dark secrets. . . .
Sara Shepard
Sara Shepard is the author of two New York Times bestselling series, Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game, as well as the series The Perfectionists. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA from Brooklyn College.
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Reviews for The Lying Game #5
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5DNF this one, it was just repetitious.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Loved it!!! Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anyone else think the killer is Ethan? I love the suspense
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Still not as good as PLL. I'm only reading at this point to find out who the murderer is.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cross my Heart, Hope to Die is the penultimate chapter in the Lying Game series. Emma finds herself in the midst of a personal crisis: Her birth mother, Becky, is back but she's not all there. It seems that Becky has a multitude of violent mental problems and is known to be highly violent and erratic.
Becky also might have been the last person to see Sutton alive. Could she have killed her own daughter as a result of a psychotic break?
On a considerably lighter note, Thayer and Ethan continue to fight for Emma's heart while Emma deals with the new girl, with a New Age feel, in town who has to hook up with Sutton's ex, Garrett. The only bright side is Emma's growing friendship with Nisha.
I greatly enjoyed Cross my Heart, Hope to Die because it seemed to be going at a quickening pace. It was tense and exciting. Now I know why: I found out the next book, Seven Minutes in Heaven, is reportedly the last book. That is what Cross my Heart felt: the chapter before the last. The anticipation is mounting.
The Becky story line could have been totally ridiculous, reaching soap opera levels, but it was told in a beautiful and very sad way. I felt bad for the Mercers, Emma included. Sutton was pretty bad ass in her flashbacks this time around. I don't know but I liked Sutton in this book and usually I hate her and bitchy ways.
SPOILER ALERT: The character death in toward the end was horrible! I couldn't believe Sara Shepard went there! But, I kind of saw that coming, I was just hoping it wouldn't be true!
I hope the series does end after the next book. I really just want to know who killed Sutton already! - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A couple months ago, Emma Paxton was forced to pretend to be her twin sister. Yet, there's one problem, her sister is dead. Only a few people know that Emma is not Sutton Mercer, her sister, but if the murderer finds out that she told someone bad things could happen to them. Yet again Emma has crossed of another name on her list of people who she think killed Sutton, but when someone special comes back to town suspicions start to rise again.Taking right off from the 4th book, Cross My Heart, Hope to Die grabs your attention from the very beginning. I love the way this series is written because even though there is 336 pages, it feels like there's about 100. I get so into the story that I flip through the pages, forgetting the world behind me. I'm giving this book 5 stars because I love the way it was written, and not only is Emma's character interesting, but so are Sutton's flashbacks she has when something triggers a part of her memory. I love this series and I'm sad that the next book is the last one, but I'm sure everything will wrap up and I'll find out everything by then.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Continues the Lying Game series. Emma's next suspect in Sutton's death is their biological mother, Becky, who's come back to town but is certifiably crazy, spending much of her time in the mental ward until she escapes. Information Emma gains throughout the book, as well as a mysterious death at the end, may serve to clear Becky.