Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best-the language of violence.
Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a riveting contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Not anyone.Īs their senior year unfolds, Alex’s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.Ģ017 Tayshas List Selection * YALSA Top 10 Best YA Fiction of 2017 * School Libray Journal Best of 2016 * Junior Library Guild Selection * The Globe and Mail Best Books of 2016 * Bustle’s Best Young Adult Books of 2016 * Mashable’s 8 Best YA Books of 2016 * Seventeen's 10 Best YA Books of 2016 * CCBC Choices 2017 * 2018-2019 Louisiana Readers' Choice Award Nominee * 2019 & 2020 Choose to Read Ohio Booklist
And not with Peekay, the preacher’s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter.
Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna’s body was discovered. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people. A stunning, unforgettable page-turner.Īlex Craft knows how to kill someone. As British novelist William Makepeace Thackeray famously put it, "Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural."įrom empowering stories about women getting even with their abusers to twisted tales about sociopaths and serial killers seeking retaliation for wrongs real and imagined, here are nine thriller novels all about revenge.Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a riveting contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives. Whether it's in a dark murder-mystery or a tense domestic noir, revenge can be a fascinating motivation for victims and evil-doers alike. And while every genre has them, it's the thriller genre where revenge stories really thrive. From Homer's The Illiad and Shakespeare's Hamlet to Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express and Stephen King's Carrie, there are countless tales of vengeance, retribution, and characters living by the old "An eye for an eye" law of retaliation. After all, there are few things as gripping as thrillers about revenge, in which one character - who is as likely to be the hero of the story as they are to be the villain - will stop at nothing to get the justice they think they deserve. They say that revenge is a dish best served cold, but for this reader, it is a dish best served inside of a juicy novel.
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