Sadie

YA chiller 

"Mary Beth Foster:  The week before she left, Sadie got really quiet, like she was thinking about doing something stupid, and I told her whatever she was thinking...don't.  I said to her, 'Don't you do it.'  But by that point, I couldn't reach her about much of anything.

     Still I never imagined this."

     Sadie, protagonist of Courtney Summers's Sadie, was born into about as bad a situation as an infant can arrive in.  Her mother wasn't willing or even able to take on responsibility for another life.  Heck, she couldn't even run her own.

     "Well, Claire was trouble and there was no reason for it.  Some kids are just born...bad.  She started drinking when she was twelve.  At fifteen, she was into pot, cocaine.  By eighteen, heroin."

     Sadie had no father in the traditional sense of the word.  If anything Claire's string of live ins made her life more precarious.  Her grandmother had died a few months before she was born.  The only stable adult in Sadie's life was Mary Beth Foster who ran the trailer park she lived in.

     Rejected by her mother and shunned by her classmates for her stutter, Sadie was a lonely child until her sister, Mattie, was born.  

"Mary Beth Foster:  Isn't it something?  Sadie loved Mattie with her whole heart and that love for Mattie gave her a purpose.  Sadie made it her life's work looking after her sister.  Young as she was she knew Claire wouldn't do it right."

     When Mattie was only thirteen she was brutally murdered.  Sadie, sure that the killer was one of Claire's loser lovers, has decided that he'll pay for the life he took with his own.  Armed with a switchblade, she's venturing into society's perilous underbelly.

     Only one person notices and cares immensely.  Mary Beth Foster has decided that she "can't take another dead girl."  She reaches out to the media.  Now West McCrae is tracking Sadie down.

     Alternating its protagonist's quest for vengeance and her potential rescuer's podcast, Sadie maintains an expertly crafted aura of suspense, keeping the engaged reader caught between fear and hope.  It's perfect for thriller lovers in its prime demographic and way beyond.

On a purrrsonal note, yesterday I put out two more bins of clothes in the Upward Bound summer clothes room.  I was wondering where I'd be able to locate clothes hangers.  Who on campus would have some?  I remembered the bookstore sells clothes.  I was prepared to pay but they gave me a bunch for free.  Today was day 3 of ultrasound practice.  It seems 😕 to be working a little.  I got ready for tomorrow's drag show.  I baked oatmeal cookies 🍪 😋 🤗 for the pot luck and packed them and my drag outfits in an overnight bag.  (Jules)

She will be a star.  (Tobago)

A great big shout out goes out to the people who are organizing the show.

Tobago and Jules Hathaway 

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