The boarding school of course is the totally fictional part of the setting. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. The end of this book is by far the BEST ending of all 3 of her current books. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Isa says that Kate “knows what we’ll say --- what we’ve always said, whenever we got that text” (p. 5). I didn't get it. Ware always does a phenomenal job of making the reader feel like they know the characters inside and out, but this time, she outdoes herself! I am literally 3/4 of the way through and your blog has saved my sanity. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. SPOILERS for Young Jane Young by Gabrielle Zevin, SPOILERS for Don't Let Go by Harlan Coben, SPOILERS for A Stranger in the House by Shari Lapena. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for The Lying Game: A Novel, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Did I go to boarding school somewhere similar? Kate and Luc die in a house fire, leaving Thea, Isa, and Fatima to answer police questions about Ambrose's death. Isa tells the father of her child that she loves him. You’ Be sorely disappointed, Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2017. While Isa, Thea, and Fatima initially wonder if Kate had killed Ambrose, they learn that Luc was the killer. What can I say about The Lying Game? I understand it could tarnish their reputations and hurt their careers, but the protagonist is terrified that if "what they did" comes out, she'll spend lice in prison and/or the authorities will take her child. In today’s world where there is so much discrimination against Muslims (I don’t mean everyone discriminates against them, I just mean that many Muslims experience racism and discrimination), she fearlessly wrote Fatima’s character including Fati’s passion for praying, cutting out drinking and smoking all because of her religion. Sometimes I like to write as well! How can a 6 month old occupy so much of the story? Isabel, Kate, Fatima, and Thea became fast friends while attending Salten boarding school, as teenagers. I almost gave up on the book because Isa's daughter had a bigger part than those who could actually speak. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's first two books so much that I pre-ordered The Lying Game. The protagonist is afraid of her own shadow because of "what she did" as a teenager with her girlfriends. The ancient town of Rye, now some three or four miles inland, was built as a port, with waves buffeting its town walls. ( Log Out / She turns ordinary characters into real human beings who are unable to tell right and wrong, but making them likable anyway. It's often hard to enjoy a book with a flaky narrator, but completely possible if you feel that the author has control of him/her. However, St Piran is completely made up, and Trepassen House is a sort of amalgam of a real stately home near where I live in Sussex and of Manderley, Maxim de Winter’s house in Rebecca. I’ve never been to boarding school, and I hope any real school as slack as Salten House would have been closed down years ago for safeguarding issues. All of my books have settings which are important to the plot, but the location that I’m probably asked about the most is The Lying Game. You feel so connected to Isa and you actually begin to feel bad for Luc and Ambrose. This is the forefront of the story. Nisha is found dead at the very end of the book, and the hunt continues. They hid the body. She'd throw her life away for these friends, she tells us that, but I never got a sense of WHY, other than that she said so. ( Log Out / The Lying Game: A Novel by Ware, Ruth . The investigation continued and police discovered that the body belonged to Ambrose and that he had died of an oral heroin overdose. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's first two books so much that I pre-ordered The Lying Game. Since the police determined he died under suspicious circumstances, the four women knew they would be questioned. Suggest a Title. I got so sick reading about the baby I almost cried. The house in In a Dark Dark Wood is totally made up, for example, though it does owe a lot to some of the more crazy, modernist projects on Grand Designs. However the Kielder Forest is a real place. Order our The Lying Game: A Novel Study Guide, teaching or studying The Lying Game: A Novel. help you understand the book. Okay, I know this is a 3rd post in a row for a Ruth Ware book…but I just LOVE her books!!!! The first three quarters of the book were excruciatingly slow going, most of the action was the protagonist alternating between fretting and breastfeeding her daughter. No depth, and slow as molasses. I loved Ware's first two novels, so I was pretty excited when the release date was announced for this. He was lenient with the four girls and his stepson, Luc. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness. The suspense wasn't bad. Like I said above, you begin to feel like you personally know Isa and like you are part of the clique of 4 girls who grew into women together with a secrets between them… You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition. She changed diapers and constantly breast fed throughout the whole book...it was boring as heck. I often find that the synopsis on the back doesn't tell you exactly what the book is about. Just silly, really. Terribly Disappointing, not the best example of her work! Literary Devices. Romney Marsh is a place of extraordinary beauty – a reclaimed salt marsh, that used to be deep below the English channel. Other Resources. Sometimes I wonder if we've all read the same book when I read the other raving reviews. I enjoyed Ruth Ware's first novel, In a Dark, Dark Wood, but it was her second, The Woman in Cabin 10, which really established her on my Must-Read-Authors list. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Sometimes I wonder if we've all read the same book when I read the other raving reviews. So much that I pre-ordered The Lying Game, and despite my list of books to read, I started reading this the moment it was delivered to my Kindle. Just unbelievably great! This latest thriller, by Ruth Ware, is an all- consuming, riveting tale, full of mind games and edgy suspense. Kindle AZW file. She knew child services would force her into foster care if officials knew Ambrose was gone. LEGAL. The main character is borderline annoying with her constant repetition of the same 5 phrases over and over again and the obsession over her child. Please post a comment and let me know what brought you to my corner of the web. My favourite line from the book: p.256 – “There’s nothing like being in the wrong to make you fight back”, Isa Wilde, books, mystery, read, Ruth Ware, synopsis, thriller. ( Log Out / This was quite a disappointment. Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2017. At the time I was working on something totally different, and there was no place for a tide mill or a coastal town. Something went wrong. It was a derelict tide mill, black and hulking against the early morning sun. Maybe I'm just jaded from all the psychological thrillers that I read but I didn't find the terrible crime the girls were implicated in to be all that terrible. In tribute to its history as a former fishing commune, the villagers have strung nets across the buildings and over the streets, just as I described in Salten. If you have to pick one book of Ruth Ware’s to read, pick The Lying Game. Ware always does a phenomenal job of making the reader feel like they know the characters inside and out, but this time, she outdoes herself! However the answer for The Lying Game is more complicated, and it’s also the only one of my novels where the place came before the plot or the characters – a long way before, in this case. 2. Or telling the truth and ultimately hurting those who need you the most? Most of her behavior was inexplicable to me, she claimed she would die for her friends, she claimed that she was forced to live a lie because of the horrible consequences if the truth were ever revealed, but I never felt that her endless hand-wringing was anything more than melodrama. Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2017. Regarding The Woman in Cabin 10 my answer is even shorter – I have never been on a cruise. Not really twists if they are a telegraphed at every turn. Just silly, really. I know it seems to be trendy to have characters that are flawed and unlikable, and maybe I am growing tired of that. What's better: Lying to protect those you love? Kate claimed that she did the drawings, and school officials decided that the girls should leave immediately to avoid expulsion. The Lying Game by Ruth Ware is a 2017 Gallery Scout publication. She convinced Isa, Thea, and Fatima to help her bury the body. 2,290 global ratings | 1,278 global reviews, Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2017. Though she knows it is a lie, she is determined to stand by it in an effort to make it true. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Again, I can forgive all these things (in the book, if not the character) if they seem part of a complex and flawed, developed narrator. By the time she had finished her first meal at Salten House, she was friends with her roommate, Fatima, and with two other girls, Thea and Kate. Quick note, I absolutely CANNOT WAIT until her book The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes out THIS YEAR!!!!! I cannot say enough how much I recommend ALL of her books!!!!!! The story starts several years ago, when I went on holiday with my family to … Her mother was dying, and her father wanted her to have a more stable life than he could provide. Again, totally fine if you feel it's deliberate, part of a confused and evolving reality for the main character.
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