4/5 Stars
B&N:"Simon Glass was easy to hate....I guess, really we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him."
Fat, clumsy Simon Glass is a nerd, a loser who occupies the lowest rung on the high school social ladder. Everyone picks on him — until Rob Haynes shows up. Rob, a transfer student with charisma to spare, immediately becomes the undisputed leader of the senior class. And he has plans for Simon.
Rob enlists the help of his crew — wealthy, intellectual Young, ladies' man Bob, and sweet, athletic Coop — in a mission: Turn sniveling Simon from total freak to would-be prom king.
But as Simon rises to the top of the social ranks, he shows a new confidence and a devious side that power-hungry Rob did not anticipate. And when Simon uncovers a dangerous secret, events darken. The result is disquieting, bone-chilling...and brutal.
My Review:
I really liked this book for some reason. I get really into my books and at first- it made me feel horrible. Some of the characters were just evil- BUT I needed to know how everything happened. The author does a really neat thing with at the beginning of each chapter, there's a short interview from different characters in the book about what happened. You get pieces of the ending- but never enough to put everything together. After I was done reading I went back and reread all the little interviews on every chapter. It was neat seeing how it all worked together.
One thing I didn't really like was how there were a few things not wrapped up as neatly as I'd like. I needed to know a bit more information about 2 of the characters and what happened to them "after."
Overall- worth the read due to the neat way the author chose to write the book.
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