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What Is The Ending Of 'The Lying Game' And Does It Have A Sequel?
Saw the cover for The Lying Game by Ruth Ware. No spoilers, but the final twist changed everything. Did a sequel ever get released after that?
2025-06-29 23:07:48
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For those unfamiliar with the series, The Lying Game, the original novel, ends with the main mystery having been solved – the protagonist discovering the truth about her twin sister’s death and the people involved in the scenario. The Lying Game is a standalone series, so there is no sequel. However, for fans of the twists and turns of The Lying Game, Lovely Little Liars will offer a similar experience. At its core, Lovely Little Liars is a mystery centered around a massive lie the protagonist told as a child. As the story unfolds, that lie begins to threaten the rest of the protagonist’s life and the relationships she currently has with others. The novel is highly suspenseful and personal, making for a great read.
2026-08-03
Quincy
I just finished binge watching The Lying Game and the ending was so sad. It turns out that Rebecca, the mom of Emma and Sutton’s “other” family, was the one who killed Sutton all along and had been lying to them her whole life. The final confrontation with Rebecca was intense and in the end she got exposed and Emma was able to move on and take back her identity. It was bittersweet, especially because of the relationship that Thayer and Mads had with Sutton. Although there aren’t any plans to continue the show, there are books that continue the story of the characters in more depth. But the way that the show ended was a great self-contained tragedy that explored the themes of identity and family secrets.
2025-06-30
Quentin
I have mixed emotions after watching the series finale of 'The Lying Game'. Firstly after all the twists and turns Sutton Mercer is found and it wasn’t what I expected after all. The TV series conclude after Emma discovers that her twin sister Sutton Mercer was murdered by their mother Rebecca. Rebecca confesses to her crimes in the finale and the emotional scene that follows goes into great detail of how it all came to pass. We are left with some closure in the end and are able to see Emma bounce back from the news and discover herself and move on from Sutton’s identity. It was bittersweet, but especially in the way that Emma found love with Ethan. Sutton’s loss will stay with all of the characters for a long time to come.
I have yet to find an official continuation of The Lying Game TV Series. Like the majority of fans, I was greatly disappointed by the shows limited season and exclusive set of episodes, although the show’s story did manage to come to a complete and fulfilling close for the main characters, it would be wonderful to see the series continued and explore the further development of a variety of the series’ extremely unique characters and their wonderfully complex relationships. Unfortunately however, Sara Shepard’s book series on which the show is based contains a greatly extended and different closing and thus there is little chance that The Lying Game will continue as a TV series. The moral ambiguity of the series main concept, The Lying Game itself and how far the various characters were driven to in order to keep up the lies was something that I found to particularly be the mark of an exceptionally impacting and memorable series.
I have yet to find an official continuation of The Lying Game TV Series. Like the majority of fans, I was greatly disappointed by the shows limited season and exclusive set of episodes, although the show’s story did manage to come to a complete and fulfilling close for the main characters, it would be wonderful to see the series continued and explore the further development of a variety of the series’ extremely unique characters and their wonderfully complex relationships. Unfortunately however, Sara Shepard’s book series on which the show is based contains a greatly extended and different closing and thus there is little chance that The Lying Game will continue as a TV series. The moral ambiguity of the series main concept, The Lying Game itself and how far the various characters were driven to in order to keep up the lies was something that I found to particularly be the mark of an exceptionally impacting and memorable series.
2025-07-01
Richie Stuner
The title of the third book, Cross My Heart, Hope To Die, is a promise that the two girls made playing a lying game as kids. The book ends with the truth of their childhood promise, after a death that was brought about by their game. The truth is hopeful. I didn’t want to follow two flawed teenage girls around for years, growing up with them. Their story was a closed circuit. It had a beginning, a trajectory, and an ending. It was a perfectly symmetric story. Adding a sequel to this would break that symmetry, and be ruinous to the whole. The hook of the first book was ‘I had a life anyone would kill for’. The last book explains the truth of that statement, and that’s all there is to it. Asking for a sequel would be like asking for another verse to a perfectly completed song. It would be nice in theory, but it would ruin the whole composition.
2026-08-01
Keekee Land
It was nice to find the ending of this book hopeful. Emma gets to keep her relations with Sutton’s friends as well as Ethan and her adoptive father. Together they build a real family in the ruins of the big lie. This is very powerful. I would hate a sequel threatening this stability of Emma’s. Sometimes we just have to believe that boring happy lives of our favorite characters are as full of meaning as their dramatic ones. For someone like Emma who has been through so much chaos a boring life would be the perfect end to her story. We don’t need a sequel to know this.
2026-08-05
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