such a unexpected ending to the series :) so goo ( )

such a unexpected ending to the series :) so goo ( )

Finally found out who killed Sutton. The series is over after all this time. I am honesty just glad it's over. ( )

I didn't like the confusion between Emma and Sutton! It's mean! One doesn't have a life! ( )

"We Mercer girls are all alike. We're bitches you don't want to mess with."
- Laurel Mercer, in all of her bad ass-ness

I knew it!
I knew it!
I freaking knew It!

WARNING: This review will be chock full of spoilers. So please do not read if you haven't it yet.

Seven Minutes in Heaven is the final book in The Lying Game Series. Boy, is it final. There is no room left for interpretation. While dealing with the "accidental" death of Nisha, Sutton's body is discovered at the bottom of Sabino Canyon. Of course, everyone thinks it's Emma Paxton but the truth comes out and Emma is public enemy number one. With everyone but Ethan against her, Emma tries to find out the truth behind Sutton's murder once and for all.

Seven Minutes in Heaven was good. Damn good. Shepard answered every question that the series has brought up. Everything came to a head and it was exciting and sad. I knew that Ethan was a killer and my theory wasn't that far off. I didn't expect that Ethan was a psychopath. The way that everything was laid out: why he killed Sutton, how he killed her was excellent.

When both he and Sutton were struggling on top of the canyon and she fell. He looked horrified. I thought to myself: they better not make it an accident as if he didn't mean to kill her. Then you see that Sutton's still alive, she's just badly injured. I really thought that Shepard was just going to have Ethan leave her there. That would have been cold but not the most logical and murderous thing to do. Shepard has shown Ethan Landry as calculating; always one step ahead.

However, when Ethan met Sutton at the bottom, they exchanged angry words, and he bought that rock crashing on her head, I was like whoa. Poor Sutton. Poor Emma! It's after that scene that Emma finds out what Nisha wanted to tell her so badly about Ethan: he's a psychopath and a murderer and Sutton wasn't the first person he had killed.

Ahhh! This is how I feel about this book! It was that good. I'll have to commend Sara Shepard. She gave me the most satisfying ending and it made sense! The best part: it didn't come out of nowhere! I had suspected Ethan since book three. That's what a good mystery does: throws up a bunch of red herrings but they don't really derail you from whom you know is guilty: Ethan. Man, I really enjoyed Ethan too.

Although, the Who Killed Sutton was the bulk of the mystery, family seemed to be the heart. After everything she's been through, Emma will finally get the family she desperately wanted as herself. The Mercers are willing to try and work their way to forgiveness but it'll take time. One thing I really loved and will love Shepard forever for is that Thayer and Emma did NOT get together in the end. Thank God! It wouldn't make any sense and it would be weird and icky. Thayer's heart belongs to Sutton and eventually he will move on...just not with Emma.

The ending of Seven Minutes in Heaven is with the Mercers quietly celebrating Christmas with Emma as Sutton moves on. It is when she sees that happiness that she moves on herself, dissolving into energy, and disappearing. Seven Minutes in Heaven was great. If fans of the series are looking for a resolution, they don't have to be happy with it, they got one. A damn good one.

SIDE NOTE: For fans of The Lying Game, I suggest you read the novellas only available as ebooks: The First Lie and True Lies. They do help when you're reading the series. ( )