Reviews by Category: Mystery

Teen Review
The Guest List

The Guest List

By Lucy Foley
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Aug 11, 2023

This novel takes place on an isolated island, known as The Folly, which is dark and gloomy and ironically the wedding destination for the picture-perfect couple, Jules and Will. Jules is the author of an online magazine and Will stars in a survival show on T.V. They appear to be the dream couple, but unknown to all the guests, a lot of secrets and lies hide within their relationship. The couple’s family and friends also get caught up with their own twisted secrets of their own, and the unraveling of it all throughout the wedding is what makes this story so riveting. 

Teen Review
The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The Inheritance Games

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
TeenReviewer11
Aug 11, 2023

In The Inheritance Games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, high schooler Avery Grambs is living out of
her car. Her only family is her sister, Libby, and Avery has her life planned out in hopes of a
better future. One day at school, she is informed that billionaire Tobias Hawthorne has died and
she has been left with his entire fortune. Hawthorne’s will requires her to live in his mansion for
a year to secure the fortune, but she will not be alone – she must live with Hawthorne’s family,

Teen Review
The Counselors by Jessica Goodman

The Counselors

By Jessica Goodman
Star Rating

Rated by
Iqra N.
Aug 8, 2023

The Counselors by Jessica Goodman Goldie Easton attends a prestigious summer camp, not because she’s rich, but because she gets free tuition due to the benefit that her parents work there. However, Camp Alpine Lake has been dubbed as a summer camp for spoiled brats and rich kids by the local “townies” at Roxwood. When Goldie’s best friends, Ava and Imogen, arrive at summer camp, Goldie gets the feeling that they are both keeping secrets from her.

Teen Review
The Only One Left by Riley Sager

The Only One Left

By Riley Sager
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Iqra N.
Aug 8, 2023

The Only One Left offers an exciting premise- Kittredge “Kit” McDeere was suspended from her job as a caregiver as many authorities, including her own father, believe she played a part in killing her sick mother who had overdosed on fentanyl which had been left in the room, a clear breach in caregiving protocol.

Teen Review

Ready Player One

By Ernest Cline
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mahad Z.
Aug 8, 2023

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline is a thrilling dystopian sci-fi novel set in the year 2044, where most of humanity seeks escape from their bleak reality through a massive virtual reality universe called the OASIS. When the creator of the OASIS, James Halliday, passes away, he leaves behind a challenging Easter Egg hunt within the virtual world. The first person to find the hidden Easter Egg will inherit Halliday's vast fortune and control over the OASIS.

Teen Review
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

We Were Liars

By e. lockhart
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Cady
Aug 8, 2023

Cadence Sinclair is a perfect girl in a perfect family, but nothing is as it seems. During one vacation at her family's beach house Cadence gets in an accident, causing brain trauma and memory loss. She goes through a year of avoiding her family, and any reminder of her accident. However, she is called back to the beach house for another family vacation. Instead of sitting at home in denial she goes back to her perfect family for the summer to find out more about her accident and what she's forgotten. Finally, she recovers the memories and uncovers the lies— lies she never expected. 

Teen Review
Evil Genius book cover

The Smartest Kid in the Universe, Evil Genius

By Chris Grabenstein
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M.
Jul 31, 2023

The Smartest Kid in the Universe, Evil Genius is a riveting book about middle schooler Jake, who gained lots of intelligence through secret jellybeans. He was deemed the smartest kid in the universe, but what if the jellybeans wear off? After a new batch of smarty beans goes missing, Jake worries about not being the smartest anymore. Through a series of puzzles, his friends help him search for treasure to prove his theory wrong. 

Teen Review
Beyond: A Ghost Story book cover

Beyond: A Ghost Story

By Graham McNamee
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Sanjay K
Jul 27, 2023

Beyond: A Ghost Story was published in 2012, and was written by Graham McNamee. The protagonist here is Jane, who lives in a dark and rainy town on Canada’s coastline. She was born dead, as the doctors found no pulse in her heart. Something eerie happened during this short time, just before the doctors managed to fix her heartbeat. The course of her life changed… for the worse. After several near-death experiences, Jane starts to suspect that her bad luck is no coincidence. 

Teen Review
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
VP
Jul 25, 2023

I took a deep breath after I finished the last sentence of this novel… because I was on the edge of my seat! A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder is packed with many turns, twists, and traps that I, as a reader, was drawn and manipulated into. I’ll be honest, when I read the first 20 pages of this book, I felt as though I would be underwhelmed by this murder mystery. However, I was hooked when I got to the halfway point.

Teen Review
Then She Was Gone

Then She Was Gone

By Lisa Jewell
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Iqra N.
Jul 20, 2023

It’s been ten years since Laurel Mack’s daughter, Ellie, went missing. It has also taken ten years for the police force to find any evidence linked to Ellie’s disappearance which included clothing, a passport, and Ellie’s human remains that had been presumably run over by a car. Laurel decided ten years ago that Ellie had run away even though she had the perfect life. As Laurel forces herself to move on, she meets Floyd, a man she met at a diner who was divorced and had two daughters of his own.

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