The Revenge Game (YA fiction)

     Jordyn Taylor's The Revenge Game combines a chiller set in an elite prep school with information on a way boys unfortunately still victimize girls in high schools and colleges. On both counts it's well worth reading for teens and young adults. 

     Allyson is a big fan of romance. She devours the movies and novels like candy. In her real life it's sadly lacking. She spends a lot of time wondering--maybe obsesing over--what boy will finally fall in love with her. So when she is partnered with Brenton Riggs Jr., a poised, popular, and very sexy lacrosse player, for an English project and he seems to be really into her, she's living the dream.

     So when she hears about the King's Cup, a competition in which the boys at her school earn points for sexual exploits she's sure he isn't involved.

     But she helps her friends set up their own competition, the Queen's Cup. Points are earned by humiliating would be predators. They feel compelled to take matters into their own hands, knowing that the school's administrators would side with the entitled boys.

     This is the then part of the story which alternates with the now part in which police are frantically searching for Riggs who mysteriously disappeared from a prom after party held at a remote location in the middle of a brutal blizzard. 

     What possibly have gone wrong? There's only one way to find out. 

     The Revenge Game is a good acquisition for a high school library or a mother-daughter book club. 

On a purrrsonal note, Thursday my chum Catherine told me that she was going to be setting up a study snacks table at 5:00. Telling me is like telling Cookie 🍪 Monster free Oreos. When I got there my eyes were bugging out of my head because a table was LOADED with the GOOD STUFF!!! And Catherine was all "Help yourself, Jules." Now I am in snack heaven 😋 😍!!! Then Friday I learned that BBE would be giving out Stuff a Buddy ducks with umbrellas 🌂 Monday at the exact time of my interview. I asked my bestie, Lisa Morin, if she could save me one. She said I could come over and get mine early as in right away! The duck is soft and adorable and the umbrella 🌂 is my favorite color, magenta. Picture tomorrow. Sometimes life feels just so perfect!!!

A great big shout out goes out to 

Jules Hathaway 

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