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Little Monsters

Item: Little Monsters
Rating: 5
Author: Kim

category: Book Reviews

tag(s): young adult

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title: Little Monsters
author: Kara Thomas
published: 7.25.2017 | Tuesday
publisher: Delacorte Press
source: bought
genre(s): thrillers
pages: 321
format: eBook
buy/shelve it: Amazon | B&N | Kobo | BookBub | Goodreads
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the blurb

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.

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review

content warning: ❗some graphic violence❗

POV: 1st person
keywords/phrases: betrayal, family dysfunction, trauma, friendships, mental health
tropes: troubled protagonist, high stakes, red herrings, twist ending
spice: 0🔥
language: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

read this if… you enjoy twisty thrillers with unexpected endings.

Little Monsters is deliciously full of twists and turns, most of which I didn’t see coming. Did I have some guess? Sure, but most of them turned out to be utterly wrong. So high points given for the ability to keep me off track.

The author crafted this story in a masterful way, with just enough information withheld from the reader to keep them guessing from page to page, from paragraph to paragraph. There were a lot of red herrings, all of which made sense to me ever changing theories about what was happening, which made it difficult to dismiss any out of hand. So it kept me hooked to the very end!

About Kara Thomas

Kara is the author of THE DARKEST CORNERS, LITTLE MONSTERS and THE CHEERLEADERS.
She is also the author of the Prep School Confidential series from St. Martin’s Griffin under the pen name Kara Taylor.
Kara has written for Warner Brothers Television and currently writes full-time on Long Island, where she lives with her husband and rescue cat.

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