Ask anyone who was around my when I was reading this book - I was obsessed! I never wanted to put it down.
The way it was written was brilliant, I loved the fact that the book starts by telling you what happens at the end, and the story was told as though Greer (the main character) was telling it to you as a friend, with all the benefits of hindsight.
This is the perfect teenage read - it's so relatable with the social dramas, inner thoughts and film references.
It is a proper roller coaster of a story - through every chapter there is excitement, suspense, disappointment, giddiness, disbelief and relief... What more could you ask for?
*SPOILER ALERT*
I don't feel like I can give this book a proper review without accidentally dropping some spoilers, so you have fair warning before reading on...
Ok, so at the very beginning Greer says she thinks she might be a murderer. Throughout the rest of the book she introduces other characters as the other murderers, and also tells you who is going to be murdered... It built up such a feeling of suspense and foreboding that I was looking forward to a really emotional (maybe even slightly graphic) event that culminated in the said murder taking place, but I was a bit deflated when it actually happened. I suppose I got so used to the twists in the plot (I was guessing most of them, but some slipped me by) that as a reader I wanted the murder to feel deliberate and justified. Reading on to the end I can totally understand why it happened the way it did, but it's for this reason that I'm giving the book 4* and not 5*.
The way it was written was brilliant, I loved the fact that the book starts by telling you what happens at the end, and the story was told as though Greer (the main character) was telling it to you as a friend, with all the benefits of hindsight.
This is the perfect teenage read - it's so relatable with the social dramas, inner thoughts and film references.
It is a proper roller coaster of a story - through every chapter there is excitement, suspense, disappointment, giddiness, disbelief and relief... What more could you ask for?
*SPOILER ALERT*
I don't feel like I can give this book a proper review without accidentally dropping some spoilers, so you have fair warning before reading on...
Ok, so at the very beginning Greer says she thinks she might be a murderer. Throughout the rest of the book she introduces other characters as the other murderers, and also tells you who is going to be murdered... It built up such a feeling of suspense and foreboding that I was looking forward to a really emotional (maybe even slightly graphic) event that culminated in the said murder taking place, but I was a bit deflated when it actually happened. I suppose I got so used to the twists in the plot (I was guessing most of them, but some slipped me by) that as a reader I wanted the murder to feel deliberate and justified. Reading on to the end I can totally understand why it happened the way it did, but it's for this reason that I'm giving the book 4* and not 5*.