Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make...not something that happened.
Sheníe's Review:
PEOPLE LIKE US is a deliciously scandalous tale of denial, betrayal, and malicious teenagers. When I first started reading this book I thought it was going to be like the movie MEAN GIRLS where the bullies are all superficial clones due to privilege. When Kay and her friends found themselves in the middle of a murder investigation I thought, karma. It was not until further into the book that I was able to see that Kay was not all that she seemed to be on the surface, a royal beyotch, but a girl struggling with the reality of who she is and what she has done. I love how this book demonstrates the true meaning of the saying what goes around comes around through a very hilarious, twisted display of irony.
Verdict: ☕ ☕ ☕ ☕ ☕
About the Author:
Dana Mele is a Pushcart-nominated writer and a work at home mother. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is a former actor, lawyer, musician, and briefly, associtate producer. She prefers tea to coffee, snow to sand, and stars to sunshine, and she lives in the Catskills with her husband and toddler. This is her first novel.
Dana Mele is a Pushcart-nominated writer and a work at home mother. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is a former actor, lawyer, musician, and briefly, associtate producer. She prefers tea to coffee, snow to sand, and stars to sunshine, and she lives in the Catskills with her husband and toddler. This is her first novel.
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