Dancing at the Pity Party – Tyler Federġ5. Highly Suspicious and Unfairly Cute – Talia Hibbertġ7. The Taking of Jake Livingston – Ryan DouglassĢ1. We Weren’t Looking to Be Found – Stephanie KuehnĢ7. Only Love Will Break Your Heart – Ed TarkingtonĢ9. I think most teens will enjoy the straight ahead action, the creepy deaths and Meg’s valiant attempt to figure out who the killer is before it’s too late.ģ7. The third person narrative is focused pretty tightly on Meg – but who hasn’t heard of an unreliable narrator before? There’s not a lot of opportunity for character development, not that it really matters.
The most they can hope for is that Jessica arrives, as planned, on the next ferry. And then, one by one, people start to die.Īlliances and nerves start to fray as the teens realize they are cut off from civilization (no cell service or Internet) and that no one knows where they are. Then, the group watches a strange and disturbing video that claims : “Vengeance is Mine.” Someone tosses the room Meg and Minnie are sharing. First of all, Ben almost dies from anaphylactic shock. The festivities start with a few beers and then things start to go whacky. Fletcher, hunky football player and Meg’s not-so-secret-crush Ben, the new boyfriend of their hostess, Jessica (who never shows us) Gunner, surfer dude Kumiko, Gunner’s new girlfriend (Minnie was his former girlfriend) Vivian, seemingly sensible Lori, random girl Nathan and Kenny token Neanderthals. When the girls arrive (by ferry), they find the rest of the party guests: T.J. The party comes on the heels of a gruesome discovery at a rival high school – “the charred remains of a body found in the locker room.” Meg’s not really the party type and she’s already anxious about the fact that they’ve “lied to parents and gone to a house party in the middle of nowhere.”
Meg and her best friend, Minnie, have been invited to a weekend party on Henry Island, one of the islands off the coast of Washington State. The straight-forward narrative and familiar characters (the mean girl, the jock, the good girl) will certainly be appealing to readers of a certain age, but there isn’t much on offer here for anyone else.
There are enough diversions and red herrings in Gretchen McNeil’s YA mystery Ten to keep attentive readers on their toes.
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