Pairs well with: Water, minus any peanut oil
I enjoyed this series, it was essentially a combo of Pretty Little Liars x Gossip Girl with a hint of Breakfast Club. One of Us is Lying will be adapted into a show on Peacock, coming out sometime in 2021, I think it’ll do well as long as Peacock gains popularity. Since the sequel One of Us is Next is already written it hopefully won’t fall into the same trap as Riverdale where it goes completely off the tracks after season one.
One of Us is Lying is where the series starts, five high school students are in detention together when one of the students mysteriously dies. Naturally the other four become suspects, but the student who died, Simon, also ran a gossip site about their school so the suspect list continues to grow. I figured out the ending before it got there but still enjoyed the story and the characters themselves.
One of Us is Next is the sequel, we pick up back at Bayview High except this time some of the side characters from One of Us is Lying are who we follow. I prefer this type of a set up in a sequel, the main four characters from the first book are still tied in and the story is consistent but it doesn’t feel like just a retelling of the first one. In this book a copy cat of Simon is playing an online truth or dare with the entire school which leads to another student dying. We get to know more about dynamics of the town and families involved and I may have enjoyed this one more than the first.
If you ever had to defend yourself for how many seasons of Pretty Little Liars or Riverdale you stuck around for you’ll enjoy this series.