History Literature / OneOfUsIsLying

* AlphaBitch: Vanessa, the worst of the popular girls. She's described as engaging in serial "unsolicited groping" that [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale would have gotten her in trouble for sexual harassment if she she was a boy]] even with boys who have girlfriends, leads the SlutShaming of Addy ( and saying it serves her right when someone trips her on the track field) while acting all nice whenever teachers are watching, [[spoiler: publicly gay bashes Cooper]] and is described by Cooper as being positively gleeful at the opportunity to exclude anyone from something.

** A sympathetic version comes when Nate gives Vanessa (one of the main ones who was SlutShaming Addy and [[spoiler: Gay-bashing Cooper]] a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech which touches upon how she is always trying to give hand jobs to everyone around her, even people she doesn't know, asking if there's one boy in the cafeteria who she ''hasn't'' done that to. [[CrossesTheLineTwice and only one boy, one of the nerds, raises his hand to that]].

* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler:Emma]] is this in ''One of Us is Next''. She could have [[spoiler:confronted her sister Phoebe for sleeping with Derek, her ex, the day after the breakup. Instead, she held it inside her and decided to weaponize it against Phoebe for the purpose of starting the Truth or Dare game. When the games got worse, implicating people and leading to Brandon's murder, rather than go to the cops or her ''parents'', Emma decided that ghosting the real killer and drinking away her problems was the solution. Emma confessing to the cops to save Phoebe from being implicated for her crimes is the first sign of her growing out of this and admitting that she went too far. Even worse, her little brother Owen realized what she was doing and continued the game, only stopping after Brandon died, showing he was taking after her]].

** In the third book, [[spoiler:the revenge plot is masterminded by Evie, the chipper new waitress who works with Nate and only has about a dozen lines before TheReveal that her father is the murdered Alexander Alton.]]

** In the third book, [[spoiler:the revenge plot is masterminded by Evie, the chipper new waitress who works with Phoebe and only has about a dozen lines before TheReveal that her father is the murdered Alexander Alton.]]

** His old grudge against [[spoiler: Leah and Bronwyn]] is an example. They once told him the wrong deadline for the Model UN, resulting in him missing the cutoff. Apparently the idea of looking the information up himself didn't occur to him, and years later he's still angry enough to ruin their lives over it.