One of Us is Lying - Karen  M. McManus

... I accidently spoiled the ending for me by reading something I shouldn´t have read. Which lead me to do some skim reading of the final chapters and I´m not okay with the ending and the direction the story is taking.

 

 

The kid Simon who got killed has committed suicide in such a way that the other four, who was with him in detention, had to be suspects. And it´s all been an elaborate plan by Simon to frame one specific person and punish the other three in the process. And he had the most ludicrious reasons for doing that.

 

I really dislike the way the author treats the subject of mental illness, Simon supposedly being depressive. The way the whole story has been set up, it felt like Simon was a sociopath rather than a depressive teenager. 

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So I won´t be spending anymore time on this book and just call it quits.