What do very evil people in high places, romance, a covert teen fight club, best friendship, and car crashes have in common? They're all key elements in Kylie Schachte's truly chilling You're Next.
When Flora, Schachte's protagonist, senses that a friend is in trouble she's told that it's nothing. But that night Ava calls, sounding desperate, and giving an address. Flora finds her in a dark, dingy alley bleeding out from gunshot wounds. With her last breath she utters a cryptic message: wess grays.
The police officer who arrives at the scene is less than surprised. It's not the first time she's found Flora with a murdered girl. Flora was only fourteen the same age as the victim.
"I learned something then that most people don't know: no one is safe. We all think we are, but at any moment someone can erase you without a second thought. The world will go on, unchanged, like you were never there at all."
Since then Flora has been a self-proclaimed amateur detective. Encouraged by the retired detective grandfather with whom she and little sister, Olive, live, she spends most of her time when she'snot in school trying to track down bad guys. So when she figures out what Ava's clue means she goes to a series of dark tunnels under an abandoned hospital.
The bad guys learn what she's up to and let her know that if she doesn't back off she and her family and best friend will pay the ultimate price. They'll be next.
On a purrrsonal note, today was the first day of the UMaine spring semester. It was so great catching up with friends I haven't since December.
A great big shout out goes out to my friends who are simply the best.
Jules Hathaway
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