17 year old Valerie is raped and goes through hell. But other girls from Miami Gardens High have also been in trouble recently; one found murdered. Is the killer the same person who raped Valerie? Or is Valerie just a slut who asked for the rape herself, like some of the boys say? ’52 likes’ is both mystery and contemporary. In a really good way Valerie’s narrator voice remindeds me a lot of Hannah’s tape-voice in Jay Ashers ‘Thirteen reasons why’. I liked the contemporary part of the novel so much. The mystery solving, not so much. (mere…)
Tag: school bullying
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‘Bad Girls Don’t Die’ (Bad Girls Don’t Die #1) by Katie Alender
I’m sure you’re going to feel uneasy like Lexi in this story, when her 13 year old little sister Kasey starts to act pretty weird in their old house they’ve just moved into. Lexi hopes it’s just the basement, that is horrifying. She’s so wrong. ‘Bad Girls Don’t Die’ isn’t so scary, that you can’t go brush your teeth alone in the bathroom after reading, but it’s pretty damn creepy and really well build up. The series consists of completed stories, and even though this book is easy to read and perfect for young teens with English as their second language, the plot is great and not childish at all. (mere…)