Samantha Downing gets an A+ from me for this dark, twisted and absolutely wicked thriller!

Something BIG is going on within the walls of Belmont Academy. People are dying and Teacher of the Year Teddy Crutcher can't be bothered with nonsense. After all, as Teacher of the Year, he's focused on doing what needs to be done for his students and no cost is too high. After all, it's for their own good.

In For Your Own Good, Downing takes one of my fave thriller settings, a prestigious private school, and turns its world upside down in the most diabolical and entertaining way. Needless to say, I loved it! There are so many characters you will love to hate but I have to say that I loved Zach through it all.

What I loved most about this book was that it was almost like an onion. As each character's layers begin to be stripped away, we see that all is not what it seems. Downing takes the saying that "there is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us" and nurtures it in her characters.

For Your Own Good is masterfully plotted with deceitful, unscrupulous characters that are all engaged in duplicity and one despicable wrongdoing after another. Easily one of my fave thrillers of the year and one I highly recommend!