Lizzie Friend
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Stacie-C | 3 altre recensioni | May 8, 2021 | I love a good conspiracy theory. Throw in a boarding school, a fish-out-of-water protagonist, and a side of suspected murder, and I'm hook-line-and-sinkered. POOR LITTLE DEAD GIRLS by Lizzie Friend is dark, creepy, and utterly delicious.
When Sadie scores a field hockey scholarship to the prestigious Keating Hall boarding school, she finds herself dealing with way more than she'd bargained for. First of all, the field hockey coach is terrifying, and her elite team members are mostly mean girls. Her two new room mates are some sort of british royalty, and they come with a non-disclosure agreement. And then there's the fact that the girl on the team that she's replacing died under mysterious circumstances. And nobody wants to talk about it.
Now stuck at school with the richest of the rich and powerful, Sadie is determined to try and keep afloat, with a new bestie and a cute guy kind of by herside. But she's beyond skeptical when she gets kidnapped, only to find out that it's all part of her initiation into Keating Hall's secret society. The thing is, the more she learns about the secrets in Keating's present, the more Sadie realizes that there are secrets in Keating's past that could answer some of her own mysteries. She might get answers, but it would mean risking everything. Maybe even her life.
With a smart, sassy heroine and seriously creepy intrigue, POOR LITTLE DEAD GIRLS is a perfect read for fans of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS and Veronica Mars. I have no idea if we'll be visiting Keating Hall again with Lizzie Friend, but I am certainly looking forward to seeing where this author takes us next.… (altro)
When Sadie scores a field hockey scholarship to the prestigious Keating Hall boarding school, she finds herself dealing with way more than she'd bargained for. First of all, the field hockey coach is terrifying, and her elite team members are mostly mean girls. Her two new room mates are some sort of british royalty, and they come with a non-disclosure agreement. And then there's the fact that the girl on the team that she's replacing died under mysterious circumstances. And nobody wants to talk about it.
Now stuck at school with the richest of the rich and powerful, Sadie is determined to try and keep afloat, with a new bestie and a cute guy kind of by herside. But she's beyond skeptical when she gets kidnapped, only to find out that it's all part of her initiation into Keating Hall's secret society. The thing is, the more she learns about the secrets in Keating's present, the more Sadie realizes that there are secrets in Keating's past that could answer some of her own mysteries. She might get answers, but it would mean risking everything. Maybe even her life.
With a smart, sassy heroine and seriously creepy intrigue, POOR LITTLE DEAD GIRLS is a perfect read for fans of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS and Veronica Mars. I have no idea if we'll be visiting Keating Hall again with Lizzie Friend, but I am certainly looking forward to seeing where this author takes us next.… (altro)
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EKAnderson | 3 altre recensioni | Jan 30, 2014 | This is a really fun book. Plain and simple, I read this book in two days, barely pulling myself out of it for food or sleep. It’s that kind of book. A good book.
Sadie is a likeable, believable character. She’s a scholarship student at a very private, very prestigious boarding school, and therefore doesn’t fit in at all. However, her entire world is thrown upside down when she is inducted into the school’s secret society and finds out she’s actually the heiress to one of the largest fortunes in the world. Suddenly, she’s attending parties at the White House, wearing $2000 dresses, and has an in with all the cool kids. She must be living the dream, right?
Wrong. Of course. Because then where would the drama be?
Sadie is realistic. She’s not overly ideal. She has bills, and the money is tempting. I think we’d all hesitate to turn this lifestyle down because most people know debt is a killer. And she gets sucked into the lifestyle. She enjoys the parties and the drinking and the dresses. If someone offered me what Sadie was offered, I’d probably be all over it too.
The pace of the novel is just right, too. Even though you don’t know what’s going until the latter half of the book, I had no problem reading this. All the characters felt real, and their relationships felt real, and the novel was driven by Sadie’s wants, and I cared. Friend probably could have left out the conspiracy all together because the character dynamics were intriguing in and of themselves. The added mystery was great, but Friend draws the reader in with her lifelike characters and intriguing character relationships.
The mystery, which I’m not going to spoil, is also fun. Who doesn’t like a good conspiracy? And I felt the mystery was well incorporated into the beef of the story. You knew something was going on from day one, so it’s not like it came out of nowhere, but I wasn’t able to figure out what was happening until the character herself figured it out. Now that’s good mystery writing!
So what didn’t I like about the novel? Well, I liked almost all of it! But there were a couple minor things I think merit a mention.
Tropes: I know in writing it’s hard to get around tropes, but I feel Friend fell into a couple basic YA tropes that personally, drive me nuts. First, Sadie is way more attractive than she believes herself to be. I think this trope is so popular because we want to believe we’re secretly really hot, but I’d love to just have a normal heroine for once. The “perfect bodies” trope is depressing for me. And second, there’s always a super intense romance. Okay, Sadie is what? 16? I’m sorry, but I remember what I was like when I was 16, and my romances were never intense or serious like that. We went to the arcade a lot, we played Dance Dance Revolution, and we tried to sneak into R-rated movies. Yes, there were make outs (come on, we were hormonal teenagers), but I don’t recall ever feeling like I was in love. Sadie and Jeremy’s relationship just felt a bit too serious for me.
And there were a couple logistical problems I had issues with:
(start of the spoilers)
Why is it only the Raleigh bloodline who figures things out? Has no one else in the past couple years noticed something odd about the place?
They wanted to create a new class of leaders for the world, and they started with high schoolers? I mean, I guess if they wanted to raise them (re: brainwash) that way, but why not start younger then? High schoolers already have a mind of their own.
What happened to the other people who weren’t healthy enough to belong? Did they pay them off? Did they kill them? Maylynne couldn’t have been the first to get a bad blood test.
(end of the spoilers)
Overall, yes, a good book and a fun YA read. The tropes kind of made me roll my eyes, and the logistical errors confused me because they seemed very basic, but I enjoyed my time reading this and didn’t hesitate in ordering a copy for the library. And that’s what counts.… (altro)
½Sadie is a likeable, believable character. She’s a scholarship student at a very private, very prestigious boarding school, and therefore doesn’t fit in at all. However, her entire world is thrown upside down when she is inducted into the school’s secret society and finds out she’s actually the heiress to one of the largest fortunes in the world. Suddenly, she’s attending parties at the White House, wearing $2000 dresses, and has an in with all the cool kids. She must be living the dream, right?
Wrong. Of course. Because then where would the drama be?
Sadie is realistic. She’s not overly ideal. She has bills, and the money is tempting. I think we’d all hesitate to turn this lifestyle down because most people know debt is a killer. And she gets sucked into the lifestyle. She enjoys the parties and the drinking and the dresses. If someone offered me what Sadie was offered, I’d probably be all over it too.
The pace of the novel is just right, too. Even though you don’t know what’s going until the latter half of the book, I had no problem reading this. All the characters felt real, and their relationships felt real, and the novel was driven by Sadie’s wants, and I cared. Friend probably could have left out the conspiracy all together because the character dynamics were intriguing in and of themselves. The added mystery was great, but Friend draws the reader in with her lifelike characters and intriguing character relationships.
The mystery, which I’m not going to spoil, is also fun. Who doesn’t like a good conspiracy? And I felt the mystery was well incorporated into the beef of the story. You knew something was going on from day one, so it’s not like it came out of nowhere, but I wasn’t able to figure out what was happening until the character herself figured it out. Now that’s good mystery writing!
So what didn’t I like about the novel? Well, I liked almost all of it! But there were a couple minor things I think merit a mention.
Tropes: I know in writing it’s hard to get around tropes, but I feel Friend fell into a couple basic YA tropes that personally, drive me nuts. First, Sadie is way more attractive than she believes herself to be. I think this trope is so popular because we want to believe we’re secretly really hot, but I’d love to just have a normal heroine for once. The “perfect bodies” trope is depressing for me. And second, there’s always a super intense romance. Okay, Sadie is what? 16? I’m sorry, but I remember what I was like when I was 16, and my romances were never intense or serious like that. We went to the arcade a lot, we played Dance Dance Revolution, and we tried to sneak into R-rated movies. Yes, there were make outs (come on, we were hormonal teenagers), but I don’t recall ever feeling like I was in love. Sadie and Jeremy’s relationship just felt a bit too serious for me.
And there were a couple logistical problems I had issues with:
(start of the spoilers)
Why is it only the Raleigh bloodline who figures things out? Has no one else in the past couple years noticed something odd about the place?
They wanted to create a new class of leaders for the world, and they started with high schoolers? I mean, I guess if they wanted to raise them (re: brainwash) that way, but why not start younger then? High schoolers already have a mind of their own.
What happened to the other people who weren’t healthy enough to belong? Did they pay them off? Did they kill them? Maylynne couldn’t have been the first to get a bad blood test.
(end of the spoilers)
Overall, yes, a good book and a fun YA read. The tropes kind of made me roll my eyes, and the logistical errors confused me because they seemed very basic, but I enjoyed my time reading this and didn’t hesitate in ordering a copy for the library. And that’s what counts.… (altro)
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BookishMatters | 3 altre recensioni | Dec 5, 2013 | I was honored to have received a copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
A gripping tale of murder, insanity, deceit, power, and mystery - all surrounding one young girl. Will she discover the truth before it is too late, or will Sadie herself become the next victim of the Keating Curse?
Sadie Marlowe has just been offered the chance of a lifetime. A full scholarship to Keating, the best of the best in private boarding schools, with the top-notch high school lacrosse program in the country. The scouts showed up to every single Keating lacrosse game, which would ultimately mean a chance for a full ride at any number of excellent colleges, something that would otherwise be out of Sadie's league.
Though Sadie hates to leave her dad behind in Oregon, going to Keaton is the smartest choice she can make for her future. Plus there is the lure of going to the same school as her mother, back when she was still happy, and still alive. Though Sadie can't stand the idea of two years with all those rich snobs, at least Jessica will be there with her. In fact it was Jessica, during Sadie's tour the semester before, who helped convince Sadie to attend Keating.
Shortly after her arrival Sadie is kidnapped and taken to a strange place. After she gets over her terror she discovers it is all part of a hazing/induction to a secret society. But this is no average high school secret society, the current members are the children of Senators and Congressmen, CEO, billionaire tycoons, shipping magnates, and all manner of powerful people. They pull out all the stops to convince Sadie to join them, but without giving her time to really think things through. And they certainly never tell her that her decision will be binding for life.
Sadie learns that both her mother and a former lacrosse player, Anna, were also members, and that both had suffered tragic 'accidents.' Sadie begins to suspect that there is much, much more to this group than she's been told. And very little of it good.
Full of memorable characters that pull you into the story as smoothly as water flowing over a sheet of glass, Poor Little Dead Girls, is a well written story full of unexpected plot twists and turns. The arc of the story is well laid out, and the action flows consistently throughout, keeping you reading from cover to cover without a break. The ending remains a surprise, even with the details that are given away to help move the story forward.… (altro)
A gripping tale of murder, insanity, deceit, power, and mystery - all surrounding one young girl. Will she discover the truth before it is too late, or will Sadie herself become the next victim of the Keating Curse?
Sadie Marlowe has just been offered the chance of a lifetime. A full scholarship to Keating, the best of the best in private boarding schools, with the top-notch high school lacrosse program in the country. The scouts showed up to every single Keating lacrosse game, which would ultimately mean a chance for a full ride at any number of excellent colleges, something that would otherwise be out of Sadie's league.
Though Sadie hates to leave her dad behind in Oregon, going to Keaton is the smartest choice she can make for her future. Plus there is the lure of going to the same school as her mother, back when she was still happy, and still alive. Though Sadie can't stand the idea of two years with all those rich snobs, at least Jessica will be there with her. In fact it was Jessica, during Sadie's tour the semester before, who helped convince Sadie to attend Keating.
Shortly after her arrival Sadie is kidnapped and taken to a strange place. After she gets over her terror she discovers it is all part of a hazing/induction to a secret society. But this is no average high school secret society, the current members are the children of Senators and Congressmen, CEO, billionaire tycoons, shipping magnates, and all manner of powerful people. They pull out all the stops to convince Sadie to join them, but without giving her time to really think things through. And they certainly never tell her that her decision will be binding for life.
Sadie learns that both her mother and a former lacrosse player, Anna, were also members, and that both had suffered tragic 'accidents.' Sadie begins to suspect that there is much, much more to this group than she's been told. And very little of it good.
Full of memorable characters that pull you into the story as smoothly as water flowing over a sheet of glass, Poor Little Dead Girls, is a well written story full of unexpected plot twists and turns. The arc of the story is well laid out, and the action flows consistently throughout, keeping you reading from cover to cover without a break. The ending remains a surprise, even with the details that are given away to help move the story forward.… (altro)
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Isisunit | 3 altre recensioni | Aug 21, 2013 | Statistiche
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What's not to like? Boarding school, secret society, rich teenagers? All fun things. Plus Sadie's roommates were awesome. I had low expectations for this book but found myself pleasantly surprised. I'm an adult who enjoys a lot of YA and I'd say this book skirts the line of YA but overall, I thought it was quick and interesting and it kept me guessing until then end.