Ughhh I have such mixed feelings about this book.

The first third of the book was pretty meh. I didn’t like nor dislike it. Then things started picking up, I thought ‘hey, this feels like the first book! this is great!’, and that feeling lasted right up until the last few pages. And then those last few pages happened, and everything felt kinda ruined.

Plot twists aside, my other problem with this book is that it really, really, really isn’t a sequel. It’s a spin-off. And branding it as a sequel gave me such different expectations than what I would’ve had if it wasn’t called a sequel. I would say that at least 80% of the plot in this book could’ve been the plot of a different book with different characters unrelated to One Of Us Is Lying, and would’ve made sense just fine. The links between this book and the book it’s apparently a sequel to are mostly character-based, and mostly relating to just 1 out of the 3 protagonists at that.