Full of typical high school drama. If you're not one of the popular kids, this book is completely unrelateable and will have you rolling your eyes at every turn.
It's basically the novelization of Heathers for today's kids. ( )

I threw this away when I had finished so nobody else would have to read it.

Ne confondez pas. Rien à voir avec la célébrissime chanteuse « Brit Brit ». Si vous êtes adepte des thrillers adultes, évitez ce livre car vous seriez déçus. Mis à part le côté sanglant des meurtres, les personnages sont stéréotypés et plats, le suspense est inexistant car on devine aisément la fin digne d’un téléfilm de seconde zone, le tout auréolé de compassion de clan à l’américaine too much. Bref rien de neuf
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When a book calls itself a thriller, I often start reading with a dubious sense that it's probably not going to be that thrilling at all. The creation of a gripping and tense atmosphere isn't something every author can achieve - fortunately for me, Olin proves himself very adept in that area throughout his page-turner of a YA novel.

The premise is quite simple. Britney Johnson, still recovering from the death of her mother in a freak rafting accident a couple of years before, has managed to transform her life. She has fledged from ugly duckling to beautiful swan, ingratiated herself with the popular crowd, and is dating a hunky member of the school's unstoppable hockey team. But when her boyfriend Ricky is killed by a hit-and-run driver, she can't help but feel a flicker of paranoia. Was the 'accident' meant to kill her as well? As strange things start to happen around her and more people start to die, only one conclusion seems to remain: someone is out to kill Britney. But who? And will the culprit be found before it's too late?

This book is definitely not one for younger teens - the deaths are pretty gruesome and in finest thriller tradition, the book tends to prey on the mind as the reader works to figure out what's happening. That said, this is a cracker of a novel. The suspects are many and the red herrings keep piling up, leading the reader off down various tangents as the book progresses. I expected to work out the perpetrator before the end, but actually Olin kept me guessing right up to the final pages, never quite sure if my suspicions were correct. It was atmospheric, claustrophobic, tense, chilling and compulsively readable - what more could I ask for? Aside from a couple of slightly confusing leaps in narrative (which are sort-of explained by the end anyway) and a few mistakes an editor should have picked up on, this is well worth a read! ( )

Very graphic look at some nasty murders. The suspense is very high, until the end when the reader realizes that the character they thought was the target was really the perpetrator. Very scary! ( )