Megan Abbott
Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.22 | 23700 Users | 3263 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Dare Me |
| ISBN: | 0316097772 (ISBN13: 9780316097772) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2013) |
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"Tense, dark, and beautifully written" (Gillian Flynn), this novel of friendship and betrayal from an Edgar Award-winning author is a harrowing glimpse into the dark heart of the all-American girl. Addy Hanlon has always been Beth Cassidy's best friend and trusted lieutenant. Beth calls the shots and Addy carries them out, a long-established order of things that has brought them to the pinnacle of their high-school careers. Now they're seniors who rule the intensely competitive cheer squad, feared and followed by the other girls—until the young new coach arrives. Cool and commanding, an emissary from the adult world just beyond their reach, Coach Colette French draws Addy and the other cheerleaders into her life. Only Beth, unsettled by the new regime, remains outside Coach's golden circle, waging a subtle but vicious campaign to regain her position as "top girl"—both with the team and with Addy herself. Then a suicide focuses a police investigation on Coach and her squad. After the first wave of shock and grief, Addy tries to uncover the truth behind the death—and learns that the boundary between loyalty and love can be dangerous terrain. The raw passions of girlhood are brought to life in this taut, unflinching exploration of friendship, ambition, and power. Writing with "total authority and an almost desperate intensity" (Tom Perrotta), award-winning novelist Megan Abbott delivers a story as unnerving and thrilling as adolescence itself. "Spectacular . . . It's Heathers meets Fight Club good." —Chelsea Cain, the New York Times Book ReviewDescribe About Books Dare Me
| Title | : | Dare Me |
| Author | : | Megan Abbott |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | July 31st 2012 by Reagan Arthur Books (first published May 10th 2012) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Mystery. Contemporary. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime |
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Ratings: 3.22 From 23700 Users | 3263 ReviewsCritique About Books Dare Me
Jennifer, glad you enjoyed it. I just finished watching the series. Please PM me when you finish the series and tell me if thats how the book ended. ILets be clear from the get go. If you want a more traditional review with a book summary, plot synopsis, and a character family tree, and then possibly a discussion on what the author was trying to accomplish in DARE ME and whether or not she actually achieved her goals, then youll probably just want to slide it on back and move on to the next review. Because Im about as non-traditional as they come. Instead, I like discussing how a book made me feel, or didnt feel, discussing writing insights
Having been a busy bee at work, I am oh so behind on reviews, and Megan Abbott's Dare Me has so much great commentary out there in the ether that I can't help but feel I have little to add. I'll lean on a bit of propositional logic to keep things brief, beginning with common misconceptions that I (if only subconsciously) have fallen prey to before: Book A is about teenage girls ⊨ Book A is for teenage girls Use of twisted teenager trope ⊻ Creative, layered, mind-bending writing Megan Abbott
There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls.The thought of getting older is something that scares the bejesus out of me every day I look in the mirror and see a new gray hair or small wrinkle, but there is noooooo amount of money in the world that would make me want to be a teenage girl in today's society. Girls have found all sorts of new ways to be vicious to one another, high schools have become war zones, and the pressure to be thin, beautiful, and perfect, has surpassed
This is girls at their ugliest. That's what people never understand: They see us as hard little pretty things, brightly lacquered and sequin-studded, and they laugh, they mock, they arouse themselves. They miss everything.You see, these glitters are war paint, it's feathers and claws, it's blood sacrifice. If I could only use one quote to sum up the entirety of this book, it would be: "there's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls. When the glitter's gone and the makeup's
Wow. This was just really, really bad. I knew 10 pages in, that this book, definately wasn't for me, but I hate not finishing a book, no matter how godawful it is {example: 50 Shades of shite Grey}.Yes the author throws in some typical high school speech {see beyotch etc.} to show the readers that she's down with the lingo, but the majority of the dialogue between the characters was ridiculous. People do not speak like that. "The suns down and the moons pretty," she says, her voice hushed. "It's
3.5 brutal stars.According to sports injury research, cheerleading is more dangerous than any other sport, with the rate of such injuries doubling between 1990 and 2002. For members of the Cheer Squad, captained by Beth Cassidy, there is less chance of being hurt by doing cheer stunts than by getting between Beth and Colette French, the new cheer coach. Beth rules the roost and she will do whatever it takes to anchor her position at the top of this pyramid.The story is told from the viewpoint of
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