Not what I expected.

In a good way. Now I don't know why but I wasn't too keen on this books -probs my because I couldn't get into pretty little liars (the tv show). But this book... Wow. I admit at the start it took me a few chapters to get into, mainly because there was too many names mentioned so fast, it was difficult to keep up. But then all that changed and I was hooked. This book kept me guessing in a way that EVERYONE was a suspect. Normally I'm good at figuring stuff out like who the killer is and why etc ect, but the characters were so well written (in my opinion) that as you were reading their narrative , you weren't 100% positive they were telling the truth. Everyone, the main characters and the people in their lives seem to know something or have a secret or motive and it's all so complicated and brilliant! Yeah a little bit high school drama that is kind of extra (I never understood Americans need to get into an Ivy League school but whatever) but who doesn't love a little bit of drama. I only read this because I needed a mystery for my reading challenge and this just happened to be there, but I WILL be picking up the sequel because this book blew me away.

If you are looking for a complicated high school murder blackmail mystery or even just want to challenge yourself to see if you can put the pieces together before all is reveled, then this is the book for you.

Also, a lesson to myself to never judge a book until you give it a try.