Wish You Were Dead (Thrillogy, #1) by Todd Strasser

Wish You Were Dead (Thrillogy, #1) Reviews

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  David - proud Gleeman in Branwen's adventuring party

  "Book, you have the right to a speedy trial" review
  
  THE DEFENSE
  
  - So many mysteries throughout the book, it's fun trying to solve them all.
  
  - Author does an excellent job building tension and atmosphere.
  
  - Glimpses into the guilty party's psychology are genuinely frightening.
  
  - Fast-paced and rather brief in length. the book never overstays its welcome.
  
  - Mysteries have a (mostly) satisfying solution.
  
  THE PROSECUTION
  
  - Characters are rather one-dimensional...and that one dimension is usually a cliché, besides.
  (Gossipy girl, check! Brooding loner, check! Can't believe hooker with a heart of gold didn't make an appearance...)
  
  - Dialogue sometimes falls flat.
  
  THE VERDICT
  
  A chilling murder mystery that often feels like a classic horror movie,
  Wish You Were Dead may not be quite as effective as the original "Halloween"movie, but it's certainly better than all the disappointing sequels...and the Rob Zombie remake...and the Rob Zombie remake of the disappointing sequel...seriously, Hollywood, are you even trying anymore?!?
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  Veronica Morfi

  Rating: 4/5
  
  The Thrillogy by Todd Strasser is a trilogy of standalones, which means you can read whichever story seems to pique your interest, even if it's not the first one. But I highly recommend you read all three of them because these books are amazeballs.
  
  Wish You Were Dead is a very intriguing story about teenagers going missing after a blogger, Str-S-d, wishes they were dead. One after the other the bullies of Soundview High are nowhere to be found and Madison finds herself filled with guilt because she is the one person they see or talk to last. But the mystery of the kidnapper is not the only one Madison will have to solve. She needs to find who her mysterious cyber stalker is and if the new guy she is falling for had anything to do with the missing kids.
  
  I adored this book. It had everything a good thriller book should. A ton of mysteries to solve, a few red herrings, multiple (and usually messed up) PoVs, and a nail-biting ending.
  
  I was glad after all that this was a standalone, because I could wait a minute longer to find the answers to all the mysteries. I really enjoyed the blog posts of Str-S-d, and the different PoVs, it just gave you an insight on everyone's mind. Also that ending was like a good old horror movie.
  
  All in all I loved it. That being said, this is my least favorite of the Thrillogy, which just means that the next books are simply amazing!
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  Katie

  Wish You Were Dead is one of the most unique stories I have read recently. It was also one of the creepiest. It definitely wasn’t in the same category of creepy as The Devouring but it was really scary in its own way and what is worse is that it was way more realistic. The stuff that happened in Wish You Were Dead could very well happen in real life and that was what made it so hard for me to read.
  
  From the summary you can tell that teenagers are being kidnapped based on the writings of an anonymous blogger. What you don’t find out from the summary is that there is a lot more going on in the book than just that. And you don’t really find out all the stuff until the very end when it’s revealed who the kidnapper is. It definitely wasn’t predictable and I never would have guessed. It was a real shocker for me. Probably for everyone else who reads the book too.
  
  The story is told from Madison’s point of view, at least most of the time. Sometimes it switched around to the other teens involved but not often. It also switched when one of the teens was being kidnapped. It was written from their point of view when it was happening. It made the book seem a lot scarier because you saw what they were going through and you saw how helpless they were to fight. It was horrible.
  
  The one thing that didn’t really make sense to me was Madison’s cyberstalker. It is revealed at the end who it is but I don’t get why it had to be part of the book. It didn’t really add anything to the story and it wasn’t really clear why the person was stalking her. It just confused me a little. It wasn’t needed and there was already enough going on in the book without that.
  
  Overall, Wish You Were Dead is one of those books I recommend reading when you aren’t home alone. It creeped me out but it was definitely in a good way. If you haven’t read any of Todd Strasser’s books this is a good one to start with. =]
  
  Oh and I just now found out that this is going to be a trilogy. I think this one could stand alone but now I can't wait for the next one!
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  mer‧₊˚✩彡

  4 stars - YA Horror
  
  Wow, not bad. Definitely what I wanted and expected from Wish You Were Dead, I succeeded in scaring myself shitless! Although I didn't like the beginning of the book because it focused on heroine's crush towards a new boy in school instead of the problem but that changed as the story goes. It got creepy and I liked it.
  
  The story is brilliant because the person who's a serial killer is the least I expected. I was freaked out every time I read from the killer's perspective. Honestly, I didn't see it coming once I learnt the truth. It was quite a shock. The deaths were devastating and heartbreaking. If I were one of the affected, direct or indirect with the event, the memory probably would haunt me forever.
  
  Since romance is included in this book, no matter even it's bits of it - frankly, it's a disaster. In my opinion, it's not necessary. This book is still a go, with or without romance, truly.
  
  The level of gruesome and gore is medium as the target audience is young adult. Too bad it's not adult horror/thriller. Bet it would extreme and guaranteed with nightmares.
  
  Consider this is a YA book, I decided to just cool with the way these teens think. They're annoying, dramatic, gossips here and there, crush on boys and girls, judgmental and all that attitudes associate with teens. I was once a teen, so go figure.
  
  Just so you know if you decided to read this book and/or any book with this kind of genre, I've got a message for you: Be suspicious because every character is suspect. Hope Book 2 is as scary as this. Or more, please.
  
  Recommended.
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  Jordyn

  Wish You Were Dead
  
  Wish You Were Dead explains a story about kids that go missing in one of the nicest towns. The main characters in this book are Madison, Lucy, Adam, Whitney, and Tyler. Lucy was the first one to go missing. It wasn’t long until the others started to disappear as well. It was only the popular kids who started to disappear, no one else. Nobody knows where the children have went, and Madison thinks it’s up to her to try and save them, until she becomes locked with the same situation as her friends.
  What I liked about this book was that there was a lot of suspense. Suspense is one of my most favorite types of books read, also with a little romance in there. What I thought was unnecessary about this book was the way they said what Lucy looked like. It made my stomach feel sick. No one needs to be tortured like that. If you need a mood for the book, I’d say you’d have to be in the reading mood because once you read the first word of the beginning of the book, you’re not going to want to get out of it. This is one of my favorite books, and needs no changes to make it better.
  I think I learned that you need to be careful of what you wish for. What you wish for might actually come true. This book has no relation to me what so ever. This book has probably helped me grow and mature as a person; to not wish for people to be dead, even when you’re the slightest mad at them. Reading this book would help you understand like me, you’re never going to want to put it down.
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  kiwi

  Nope. Just nope. Didn't enjoy it. Didn't care.
  Didn't like it.
  T'is all for now.
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  mady

  2.5 ⭐️- this book was PAINFULLY predictable. there were no big plot twists so it was just plain and boring all the way through. the only thing that was good was that the author wasn’t afraid to kill off a character.. but that’s really it🤷🏼‍♀️
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  Jennifer Wardrip

  Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka "Readingjunky" for TeensReadToo.com
  
  If you are looking for a good thriller, look no further. WISH YOU WERE DEAD by Todd Strasser has everything you're looking for.
  
  When a popular teen from a wealthy, gated community disappears right off her front lawn, everyone is scared. Then, when two more teens disappear within the same week, panic sets in.
  
  Madison has always liked being part of the "in" crowd, but she hesitates and tries to distance herself when they start bashing the less fortunate students in her affluent high school.
  
  When her friend, Lucy, disappears after being dropped off at her house by Madison and her Safe Ride partner, she feels guilty. The rules of Safe Ride state that the person being dropped off should be witnessed entering his/her home. Madison was pretty annoyed with Lucy and her better-than-everyone attitude that night, and when Lucy stubbornly continued to hang around on her front walk, Madison and Tyler just left her.
  
  Now Lucy is gone. Did she run off with her boyfriend? Is she just trying to scare everyone? Or was she kidnapped? When there is no demand for a ransom, people begin to suspect more sinister motives are involved.
  
  Madison is not the only one feeling guilty. The creator of a blog known as Str-S-d is having second thoughts about her actions. Frustrated with the ever-popular Lucy and her superior attitude, Str-S-d admits that she wishes her dead. Could someone have read her post and taken it seriously enough to actually kill the girl? And is it coincidence when Str-S-d expresses similar death wishes about the other two missing teens?
  
  Add in the attractive yet mysterious new student, Tyler, and the strange messages Madison keeps finding from someone known only as PBleeker, and the suspense builds quickly.
  
  Todd Strasser is at his best in WISH YOU WERE DEAD. It provides just the edge-of-your-seat action teens love. Happily, it appears to be the first of three similar stories. Can't wait to get a look at the next one.
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  A.

  Reviewed by my brother, Gregory.
  
  Oh boy, Wish You Were Dead is capital-C Creepy! I loved it and was sucked in from the first pages.
  
  
  An anonymous blogger starts talking about the kids that are mean to her at school. Then it escalates to wishing those kids are dead, and guess what? They go missing.
  
  Our protagonist, Madison, feels responsible since she had taken the first girl, Lucy, home the night she was kidnapped but didn't watch her go in. That's when Lucy got snatched. When other kids start disappearing too, Madison begins investigating.
  
  The chapters are short which helps to move the story along at super speed. The point of views change from the anonymous blogger, to Madison and then best of all, we get to hear what the kidnapper/killer is saying to his or her captives (we don't know who the killer is until the end).
  
  
  Man, that puppy is psycho. The dialogue with his/her captives gives you goosebumps. The poor kids get not only physical torture but psychological as well.
  
  
  Madison and Tyler are good characters who seem to follow a logical path on their investigation. There are a couple of subplots that play out well in the end, a few red herrings and interesting twists. And as far as relationships went, they were portrayed well.
  
  
  Strasser also does a good job of making you feel ambivalent about the kids who get kidnapped. I mean, you start thinking that if they hadn't been such jerks, perhaps they wouldn't be in this mess. It gets you thinking.
  
  No fantasy in this one. Just nasty nutso serial killer stuff. The pace is fast and I was flipping pages well into the night to finish it. Trouble was I was the only one up and jumped every time a weird noise rattled the house. Had to be a windy night, right? I brought one of the dogs in my room for backup. Don't laugh!
  
  I don't want to give too much away so I'll just say this is a wonderful creepy thriller filled with suspense and nail biting moments. A fun who-dun-it!
  
  
  The Cover: Totally fits the content. Creepy!
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  Sam

  I picked this up simply because it was a Strasser book and I'm fond of him. It wasn't a let down, but I am left kind of saying "Meh." Frankly, it's probably just coming from the fact that this book is targeted at a lower reading level (I'd say younger audience but frankly the subject matter is a bit too heavy for that).
  
  This book is a bit of a hybrid; it switches between focusing on a blog written by one of the characters (we don't know who) complaining about the popular people at school and a narrative focusing on Madison Archer, a rich, semi-popular girl who has always treated everyone nicely. The book is set in a quiet, private, affluent suburb with no crime or weird events. That is, of course, until the most popular and snotty girl in the school disappears shortly after she is dropped off by Safe Rides, a volunteer program that Madison works for. And wouldn't you know it? Our blogger just happened to wish that she would disappear...
  
  Things get weirder and weirder- the anonymous blogster names names and then, poof, they're gone. Eventually, she gets scared that she's cursed- clearly someone is reading what she writes and acting on it. In the mean time, Madison is seeing people who she has been close to her whole life disappear and desperately trying to make the connection to who could be responsible. Worse than anything, she fears that her new man of interest who just moved into town mysteriously could be involved in some way. Not to mention she's been getting weird anonymous notes on the computer, and now she's finding messages left for her warning her that it's not safe. Clearly someone she knows is involved in this, but who?
  
  It's a dark book that's written in a very light, easy to read way. This is good and bad. It's good because I can think of a few reading-challenged teens who could get into this. It's bad because I think this could have been a great in-depth story that I would have loved. It does have a nice twist ending which didn't let me down by falling into standard book stereotypes. Recommended if you need something nice and quick to chew on.
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  Thomas

  Lucy Cunningham is the most popular girl attending Soundview High. She is drop dead gorgeous and stunningly attractive - everyone wishes to stand in her shoes. That is, until one night Lucy is mysteriously kidnapped after receiving a ride home.
  
  Madison Archer is wrecked by feelings of guilt and anxiety - after all, she was the last person to see Lucy before she disappeared. Thankfully, she has a new crush to keep her preoccupied. Tyler is the new, secretive guy at her school who always dons a black trench coat. But when their relationship begins to form, two more notorious students are abducted. Madison takes matters into her own hands and tries to find the missing students - before it is too late.
  
  The cover of Wish You Were Dead is absolutely appropriate. The book was creepy, disturbing, yet alluring: after reading a little bit I didn't want to put the book down until I had finished the entire thing. Its main strong point was the kidnapping/serial killer plot line, which was the sole factor that kept me interested through the duration of the novel.
  
  What would have made the book even better was if Strasser decided to develop his characters more, or remove some of the unnecessary scenes that didn't relate to the kidnappings. Parts of the book were boring and detracted from the suspenseful feel of the novel, making it lose some of its overall appeal.
  
  Recommended for teens who enjoy a suspenseful mystery.
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  Kayla Krantz

  Wow, so where do I begin? As a writer myself, I know what it feels like to get a two star review, so I don't give them out very often, but that's the best rating I could manage for this book. Based on the summary, I was excited to read this book. It had such a good concept, and I loved the amount of suspense that the author was able to keep throughout the story.
  
  However, it bothered me that the story randomly jumped POVs between first person and third. It wasn't always clear which character the story was focused on, and sometimes, the focus on a character seemed unnecessary. A lot of the characters, like Lucy, Madison, and Courtney, seemed really flat and predictable. I could guess what the MC was going to do in most cases before she did it.
  
  The ending was rushed and summed up things that I thought should've been actually shown in the book such as the MC's online stalker admitting who he was. This is only the first book of the series, and I do wonder what other plot lines the author has in mind, but at the same time, I'm not going to make finishing the rest of these books a priority.
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  Amy Y.

  The book "Wish You Were Dead" is a similar version of another story written by Lois Duncan, "I Know what you did Last Summer". Madison Archer, a student of Soundview High school suddenly gets mysterious death threats after her best friend had disappeared. In addition, a blogger called Str-s-d posts up blogs of how much he/she wants the popular kids to drop dead. Time is running out. Madison needs to find out who is behind this whole puzzle scheme before she is next!
  
  This book was very interesting! I decided to read this because of it's cover. My first reaction was " Whoa". It's cover looked so suspenseful and creepy. Turns out, the story itself was creepy as well! It made my heart racing every time I flip each page of the book! Strasser's writing is amazing! Each chapter is a different perspective of the mystery blogger and protagonist! I love how it transitions because it makes the story connected and flow in a way! Overall, this book was amazing! If I would've rate this book on a scale of 1-10, I would give it a 7 because of it's thriller plot and brilliant writing skills!
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  Maryam

  I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. It was a good thriller in the sense I didn't know who was the kidnapper, but a few things bothered me. The main character was really naive, a bit careless (she ALWAYS thought about Tyler and it got annoying real quick), and just really plain to me. I don't know. I didn't connect with any of them. Fast read and pleasing, I suppose.
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  Saadia

  A thriller? No, more like a sleeping pill.
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  J

  This is just... terrible. POV is all over the place, red herrings that don't make ANY actual sense and the antagonist seems to be a reallllly appallingly written schizo. Just. What.
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  Veronika

  “If you've never known someone your own age who's died, you can't imagine what it feels like. It's as if you were walking on a glass floor and it suddenly shatters and now you're falling and falling and there's broken glass in the air all around you and no bottom in sight.”
  
  Madison, the main character, was a little bit boring (she doesn't really have anything special about her... I mean not a hobby or anything) but perfect for the storyline: she was in the popular clique still she wasn't mean or a bully so with other words people liked her. The whole story begins with the blog where a bullied girl writes about how badly people treat her. After we can read how Lucy (one of the most popular girls) gets kidnapped and then we read about what happened before Lucy got out of Tyler's car and here comes the story from Madison's point of view.
  
  After Lucy more teens start to disappear starting with Adam, Lucy's boyfriend. Madison realizes betrayals and cheating and soon discovers what is flawless on the outside isn't always perfect beneath the surface. Soon Courtney, Madison's best friend disappears encouraging her for further investigation, she won't stop until she finds the truth.
  
  
  First I thought that Tyler is a little bit strange (the rich bitch comment and how he acted all along the car drive) There was a time when I hated him he left Madison in trouble which was caused by both of them, he acted like it was all Madison's fault. He did other questionable things too, but these became totally understandable after we get to know his story still I never really forgave him for making Madison take the guilt.
  
  After a time it became totally obvious who writes the blog so when it got out it wasn't a big surprise. Why didn't she stopped the blog or at least the wishes, when one girl has already disappeared?
  When they went to the house where the kidnapper kept the victims it was clear who will it be.
  
  
  This story tells us how many bad things can happen on the internet, how cruel and crazy some people are, how from a "little bullying" can come something so bad like you couldn't imagine before, how little things can affect people's life. Everyone should be more careful what things they write on the internet because anyone can read it after they uploaded it.
  
  So all in all it is an amazing book, a quick read and I'm looking forward to read the two other books in this trilogy. Hope I can give five stars to those :).
  
  The story idea: 5/5
  The realization of the story: 4/5
  The characters: 4/5
  The cover: 3/5
  All in all: 4/5
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  Kerstin Stutzke

  Hat sich nicht schon ein jeder einmal den Tod eines anderen Menschen gewünscht? Hass, Mobbing, Neid - all dies können Auslöser für diesen irrationalen Wunsch sein und dennoch, manchmal sind die Gefühle, die einen antreiben so stark, dass einfach mal alles raus muss. So auch auf dem Blog "an-G-kozzt", dessen Verfasser mehr als nur einem Menschen den Tod wünscht. Fest steht, der Blogbetreiber ist noch Schüler und in der Schule ergeht es ihm nicht gut, denn das Mobbing ist offensichtlich. Zur Wehr setzt sich der Blogbetreiber über seinen Blog, hetzt gegen die Beliebten und wünscht denen, die ihm Unrecht getan haben, den Tod an den Hals.
  
  
  Manchmal jedoch werden Wünsche wahr. So verschwindet nach einer Party Lucy Cunningham. Sie war eine Diva an ihrer Schule und tatsächlich macht sich nicht einmal die Polizei anfänglich Sorgen, denn verschwinden nicht immer mal wieder Teenager spurlos für ein paar Tage, um danach unbeschadet wieder aufzutauchen? Als jedoch auch Lucys Freund Alex und dessen Freundin Courtney verschwinden, scheint klar, dass an der ganzen Sache etwas ganz und gar nicht stimmt.
  
  
  Auch Madison ist angst und bange, denn auch sie gehört zu der angesagten Clique und Lucy, Alex und Courtney sind ihre besten Freunde. Doch sie ist nicht bereit, sich in eine wie auch immer geartete Falle locken zu lassen und beschließt, sich selbst auf die Suche nach ihren Freunden zu machen. Dabei kommt sie dem Täter jedoch näher, als ihr lieb sein dürfte ...
  
  
  
  Sei vorsichtig mit deinen Wünschen! Der Plot des Buches wurde spannend erarbeitet. Besonders gut fand ich die Cliquenbildung und damit einhergehenden unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Schichten auf der Highschool dargestellt. Die Figuren wurden authentisch erarbeitet, doch fehlte es ihnen aus meiner Sicht etwas an Tiefe. Rückblendend betrachten wirkten sie fast alle sehr farblos auf mich, was schade ist, denn gerade das Highschool-Umfeld bietet wirklich reichlich Spielraum für jede Art Persönlichkeit. Den Schreibstil empfand ich, bis auf kleinere Längen, angenehm zu lesen, muss jedoch abschließend sagen, dass dieses Buch eines der wenigsten von Todd Strasser / Morton Rhue ist, das mich nicht ganz überzeugen konnte.
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  JBooks

  German Review
  
  
  4,5 Sterne
  
  Todd Strasser alias Morton Rhue ist mir damals schon in der Realschule begegnet. Damals haben wir von ihm das Buch "Boot Camp" gelesen, was mich nicht sonderlich gepackt hatte. 2 oder 3 Jahre später haben wir uns dem Buch "Die Welle" gewidmet in der Schule. Dies faszinierte mich schon etwas mehr und ich muss auch sagen, "Wish u were dead" ist auch ein Knüller!
  
  
  Cover:
  Das Cover ist schon schön gestaltet und lässt auch gleich darauf schließen, dass es mit Internet und all dem Kram zu tun hat.
  
  Inhalt:
  Am meisten wird aus der Sicht von Madison Archer geschrieben. Ab und an wurden dann noch ihre Freunde kurz beschrieben, was sie taten.
  Dann wurde auch noch aus der Sicht dem Täter geschrieben. Hier wurde der Text immer kursiv geschrieben.
  Die Blog-Einträge wurden auch eingebracht und ist auch ziemlich gut rüber gekommen.
  
  
  Morton Rhue ist schon bekannt, dass er sich mit dem Thema von den Jugendlichen beschäftig. Wie es ihnen in der Schule geht, was sie durch machen. Manchmal hab ich das Gefühl, er ist in diesem Alter geblieben ;)
  
  In "Wish u were dead" geht es um eine junge Bloggerin, die sich in ihrem Blog, um die angesagten Kids, ausläst.
  Sie wünscht der Lucy den Tod. Paar Tage später verschwindet diese mitten in der Nacht vor dem Haus ihrer Eltern. Danach bloggt sie weiter und immer mehr Kommentare bekommt sie.
  
  Madison, aus der meist die Sicht geschrieben wird, ist in der 12 Klasse und ist in der In-Clique. Nachdem Lucy verschwunden ist, macht sie sich die größten Sorgen, weil sie mit ihr seit dem Kindergarten befreundet ist. Und dann ist da noch das Internet. Madison bekommt von einem PBleeker Nachrichten und sie bekommt Angst. Hat er vielleicht was mit dem Verschwinden zu tun oder doch nicht?
  
  
  Im Nachhinein ist es wirklich ein ziemliches gutes Buch. Es hatte keine Längen. Das Ende war zwar schon etwas abrupt, aber das machte jetzt auch nichts aus.
  
  Rhue hat wieder mit diesem Werk gezeigt, wie gefährlich das Internet sein kann und man muss aufpassen, was man überall und nirgends postet. Denn wenn mal was ins Netz gestellt wurde, kommt sehr schlecht wieder raus.
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  Ruby Escalona

  The way the book was narrated and presented to the readers is awesome. With a mixture of blogs, comments to the blog, notes, and the narration of Madison, its certainly a new twist to me. Though the writer is male, he had presented the point of view of a female very accurately, in fact, I had to look at the back cover of the book to ensure that the author is indeed male and not a female since I throughly believed the female narration and what goes on in the mind of the girl, esp when they're attracted to someone.
  
  
  The mystery component is presented with lots of red herrings. It drove me crazy that around 100 pages into the book, I snuck a peek at the last few pages of the book to see who the perpetuator was. I spoiled myself in the process and though this is not often the case, I was utterly disappointed that I did not get to figure out who the killer was by myself. A
  www.. But anyway, just look at the clues presented in the book and I'm sure you'll come up with the killer too!
  
  
  The characters were stereotypical to be honest - they are the rich, young kids who are living in private school and its set in a typical YA manner - a high school. It's all right though, as Tyler offered a breath of fresh air as well as Sharon and Laurie. Not many books delve in the topic of homosexuality too.
  
  
  There is a second book out, called "Blood in Her Hands." Did I say this book was the first of a trilogy? If not, well, it is! As I checked out the blurb of the second book from Amazon, I think it's not related to the first book per se - ie, the characters are the same, but nevertheless, it does look interesting too! Although the series did not get as much buzz as I thought it would be, it's a nice read for Halloween as its a thriller and a whodunit type of thing!
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  Sarah

  Warning! This is one scary book! I ended up staying up to finish this book because I literally couldn't sleep. Str-S-d starts a blog complaining about the popular kids in their high school and even starts to talk about how they wish some of them would die. When these popular kids start disappearing no one in the comfortable suburb of Soundview can believe this is happening in their safe little community. In the first of many twists, the story is primarily told from the perspective of "nice" popular girl Madison. She's friends with everyone who's disappeared and determined to find out what's happened to her friends before it happens to her too.
  
  I liked that this one could have easily have become a book just about bullying or other issues of high school popularity, so I liked that when the whole story was revealed it was a little more complicated than that. At the same time, I felt like the book was such an adrenaline rush that I would have liked to go back and explore some of the social dynamics touched on in the story. Of course there's a reason that so many books, movies, tv shows, etc. are made exploring the complicated waters of high school hierarchies, so maybe we don't need another one.
  
  It really surprised me how violent this book was, not graphically so, but events that occur are very unsettling. This is definitely a book for mature teen readers. I don't do well with horror movies and I think that's a big part of why, once I got to a certain point, I had to finish this book before I could sleep. Still, the story was solid and it wouldn't have scared me so much if it hadn't been well told. I definitely recommend this one to anyone who has the stomach for serious suspense.
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  Janie

  The book starts with anonymous blogger writing about how she is mercilessly bullied in school and how much she wishes that those people were dead. Suddenly, those people start to disappear, one by one. The story progresses and it is evident that those people are abducted and kept in very undesirable conditions. It is narrated first person by a girl named Madison, whose friends are those being taken. Oh, and there’s a mysterious new kid that she likes who very obviously knows something, but is constantly in “I can’t tell you” to her. And she has an internet stalker screen name PBleeker. Despite this recipe for suspense, I found the plot a little less interesting than watching a muddy river slog by, as Madison is constantly in the state of "Oh my friends are missing, what's going on?" and the police are in a constant state of bafflement, not much else happens beyond that. This book doesn't sugarcoat the truth... people die. Harsh reality. Ok, correction. The plot was indeed a very slow moving and rather boring and repetitive one, but once you reach the ending, it’s finally back up to the “suspense novel” speed. Well, as far as I’m concerned.
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  Gina Richardson/Mengarelli

  the reason why i choose this book is because i read blood on my hands and it was an awsome book. and i though this one would be good too, which i though it was better than the first one,the genre of this book i think is fiction, but idk? dont really pay attention to that, the setting took place during the end of winter, and at home and a little bit of school.the main charcater is lucy, she is a girl that is a good student in school, likes to party. and comes from a rich family.she also has 2 more friends that come from rich familys, and also a boy adam which is her boyfriend. the main problem in the book is that she is no where to be found, after tyler and her friend droped her off after a party, and she is no where to be found, and later on in the book her friends start missing and it becomes a big whole problem, lucy and ethan, well ethan knows who is doing all the killing and the find out where she lives, and the go there. and something happens, which i dont wanna say it, if you didnt read it.i thougt it was an awesome book. i love it!