For a senior project Pip decides to investigate the murder of Andie Bell and Sal Singh, that
happened five years ago in her little town. Sal, Andies boyfriend was the presumable murderer.
After killing Andie Sal allegedly took his own life from guilt or fear. Pip has always thought that
there was something off about the case, and the more she investigates the more it becomes
clear that someone doesn't want her to. With the help of Ravi Singh, Sal’s brother. Pip slowly
Starr Carter, our sixteen year old protagonist who lives in garden heights, a poor town that is a
predominantly black, crime ridden neighborhood. Completely contradicting to the small town she
lives in, Starr attends Williamson Prep, a fancy, mostly white Prep School. Starrs world comes
crashing down when she witnesses her best friend Khalid die from the hands of a white police
officer. As Starr struggles to balance both of her worlds she has to figure out who she really is.
And to do that she has to confront her tragic past.
Addy, Brownyn, Cooper, Nate and Simon all walk into detention and only four of them walk out.
Simon is left on the floor dead with the life sucked out of him and the four that are left are
mentally scarred. A big coincidence right?, maybe even too big. All four of our main characters
have very different lives; Brownyn Rojas is a straight A student who is on her way to Yale,
Beautiful homecoming princess Addy Prentiss seems to have an ideal life, Baseball star Cooper
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is a children's story told from the point of view of a sled dog.
The readers get to experience Buck's (the sled dog) journey as he travels across North America.
Buck is stolen from his owners bedside to be sold to miners traveling across freezing Alaska. The
readers learn about the mistreatment Buck faces, his own rivalries with the other sled dogs, and his
search for his owner.
Flannery Culp, high school student and murderess, is going into her senior
year, and she’s got a huge crush on the student choir leader, Adam State.
She writes him letter after letter, but never knows how he truly feels.
Other than Adam, Flannery is also dealing with other unwanted attention.
Meanwhile, her endearingly pretensious group of friends are having
troubles of their own, and Flannery gets entangled in quite a few of them.
I didn’t love the book at first. The beginning is kind of slow, and it
I’ve read Chloe Gong’s previous duology, but I wasn’t aware she was coming out with a new
book with the same setting and (roughly) same characters. After seeing multiple reviews of this
book on Goodreads and having it recommended to me by a friend, I was eager to read it.
There are spoilers for her original duology (These Violent Delights and Our Violent Ends).
