They Wish They Were Us

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I could almost forgive the non - existent mystery; it is very obvious from the beginning who the murderer is. Again, I wouldn't have a problem with that if the rest of the book was alright.

Realmente he terminado haciéndome preguntas casi rozando lo filosófico. No es un libro que te induzca a ello de manera directa, sino que es tan realista en muchas ocasiones que conecta de alguna forma con esa parte que todo el mundo tiene de querer pertenecer a algo. Cueste lo que cueste. Esto es sin duda el tema principal del libro, narrado de una manera exquisita por Jessica Goodman. They say only the good die young, but that’s just a line in a stupid song we used to sing. It isn’t real. It isn’t true. I know that because Shaila Arnold was so many things—brilliant and funny, confident and wild. But honestly? She wasn’t all that good.”

Shaila is no longer with us,” he says, “but her life was radiant, one we cannot forget. She lives on in her family, in her friends, and within these halls.” I loved this book so much. But some of the stuff it covered really shot me down. Not because it was problematic, because it wasn’t. Not because it was glorified, because it wasn’t. It just wasn’t pleasant. I was desperate to find the answers to this story. But I also got concerned at about 80 percent through because it didn’t seem like it was resolving. It kept the tension going right until the end.

Jill Newman and her best friend Shaila Arnold were selected to join an exclusive secret society called “The Players” with an incredibly vicious hazing ritual that one would die for, to achieve status and the opportunity to access information that would ensure an Ivy League standing. Well, that is exactly what happened three years ago when Jill’s best friend was murdered at the hands of her boyfriend Graham Calloway, who confessed to the murder. This is a decent YA mystery. The culprit was pretty obvious to me from the beginning, but I kept reading to find out the reasons and events that surrounded the death. Probably the only creatures who wish they were them are frogs on the roadside. And not ALL kinds of frogs but those kinds which just sit and croak and croak and croakThis is exactly the type of story-line that I just eat up. There is something endlessly interesting about the wealthy elite and their prep-school prodigies for me. The academic setting provided some structure but, very early on, we witness almost every single character vying to test and ultimately shatter their boundaries there. Much of this book took place after dark, most of it was illegal, and all of it was intriguing.