GENRE: Young Adult Fiction/Suspense
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MY GRADE: D
SYNOPSIS: The Mahoney brothers are the golden boys of Rutherford Institute. Collins Pruitt is going to ruin them.
Theo Mahoney is well-connected and popular. He’s charming and beloved. But he’s hiding something.
Jasper Mahoney is lauded for his intellect and athleticism. He’s studious and focused. But he isn’t as impenetrable as he seems.
Collins will earn their trust—and then she’ll destroy them. But the closer she gets, the more she questions the reason she was sent to Rutherford in the first place…and if it’s possible to ruin the Mahoneys without also destroying herself.
MY THOUGHTS: This was awful and a lot longer than it should have been, by about 100 pages. I got real impatient with the story, which was going nowhere at all, then I got bored at around page 250 with still over 100 pages to go. There are so many characters, mostly classmates, to keep up with. I thought I was going to read a suspenseful story about a nasty, conniving teenage girl who's out to 'destroy' innocent people but that's not what we got. Collins is an extremely bland character, not unlikable at all. She is out to do some dirty work that her aunt Rose put her up to while away at a boarding high school in California. She actually transferred to that school just because her aunt wanted her to. Dirty deeds are usually done to the benefit of the one doing said deeds but Collins wouldn't have benefited from them so why do them? Collins is just poorly written. Speaking of her aunt, there's a secret Collins learned about her a week before going away to school. I cannot think of one reason why that was put into the story as it did nothing at all for it other than to add filler content. And the secrets she has on people aren't anything like what I was expecting. One nasty trick she pulled on Theo, he didn't even get mad at her for doing it which was so unrealistic. I didn't really feel like I was reading about children because they mostly acted too mature. In fact, they should have been in college, not high school. And the main secrets involved >>>> spoiler warning>>>> money investments among the parents and insider trading! Who wants to read about that? Certainly not the target audience of young adult readers, which consists of middle and highschoolers.
I received this from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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