Description:
Kacey is the new girl in Broken Falls. When she moved in with her father, she stepped into a brand-new life. A life with a stepbrother, a stepmother, and strangest of all, an adoring younger half sister.
Kacey’s new life is eerily charming compared with the wild highs and lows of the old one she lived with her volatile mother. And everyone is so nice in Broken Falls—she’s even been welcomed into a tight new circle of friends. Bailey and Jade invite her to do everything with them.
Which is why it’s so odd when they start acting distant. And when they don’t invite her to the biggest party of the year, it doesn't exactly feel like an accident.
But Kacey will never be able to ask, because Bailey never makes it home from that party. Suddenly, Broken Falls doesn’t seem so welcoming after all—especially once everyone starts looking to the new girl for answers.
Kacey is about to learn some very important lessons: Sometimes appearances can be deceiving. Sometimes when you’re the new girl, you shouldn’t trust anyone.
Shenie's Review:
The title LITTLE MONSTERS accurately describe the girls in this novel. I found all of the girls to be incessantly irritating, especially Kacey who followed Bailey and Jade around like a puppy vying for praise and attention. This did serve a huge part in why Kacey was caught in the middle of the investigation for her missing friend, but I just wished that all her troubles could have befallen her due to some factor other than desperation and patheticness.
Kacey described everything she was watching with wonderful descriptions but when it came time to speak to anyone she had a limited vocabulary and it felt like getting a word out of her was like pulling teeth. When she did choose to speak she drove me nuts with how she could not stop lying about her whereabouts to the cops and then how she would get frustrated at them, after all the lies, for not believing her when she was telling them the truth about not having a clue where Bailey could have gone. Granted, I understood the reason for her lying to the cops in the first place was due to her being worried that her stepmom, who is actually really nice, would get mad and send her off if she told her the truth of where she and her younger sister actually were the night before. I can see Kacey's point of being afraid, to tell the truth, but when she believes herself the main suspect in a missing person case I would have thought being sent off versus being sent to jail would put things in perspective.
Other than the annoyance I felt for the characters, the storyline was killer. I felt that the diary entries of Bailey's helped build the intensity of the story and gave insight on how her, Jade's and Kacie's, friendship dynamic worked. The subtle clues kept the mystery going nicely and the unpredictability of the characters made me suspicious of everyone until the shocking unveiling which pretty much saved this story for me, hence the three cups of coffee instead of two.
Verdict: ☕☕☕
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About the Author:
Kara Thomas is a true crime addict and the author of THE DARKEST CORNERS, LITTLE MONSTERS, and THE CHEERLEADERS, all published by Delacorte Press. You can find her on Twitter (@karatwrites), Instagram (@kara__thomas), or at www.kara-thomas.com.
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