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Dec 10, 2022ArapahoeMandy rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I quite liked this novel. I thought it gave good insight into the mind of a misguided cheerleader and even the politics within that clique. The mystery of the plot was engaging and it was an easy read. I would suggest this book to folks…
Mar 14, 2021LauraSteinert rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
I can't believe I finished it. I hated all the characters equally. I did not find the cheer routines interesting, and the mean girl stuff was disgusting. Still, something about it kept me reading. I'm going to say it is an age thing and…
Oct 03, 2020
Started, did not like it.
Jul 14, 2019EljayJohnson rated this title 1.5 out of 5 stars
A lot of sturm und drang about not much. It would have been a better short story than a novel.
Feb 28, 2019bsidney rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this read even though it was about mean teen girls. It was a quick read and i would recommend it.
Jan 20, 2019goddessbeth rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed The Fever so much, when I saw my library had the Dare Me audiobook I couldn't resist listening to it. The most notable difference between the two (aside from story, of course), is that The Fever had a very present sense of…
Aug 07, 2018Gulkh rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
This book is crap. Absolute crap. There is not a single character I like or care for. Why do they behave this way? Teen angst? Why is Beth the way she is? There is absolutely no depth to the girls. Why are they such hateful brats?…
Apr 25, 2018booknrrd rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Addy and Beth are best friends and the top girls on the varsity cheerleading squad, but things start to change when the squad gets a new coach. Oh, and there's teen alcohol use, sex, infidelity, a lot of cheerleading injuries, and maybe a…
Sep 24, 2016Sioux_2 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
This is a bore. This is high school. I was a high school cheerleader. This was life in the "higher echelon". Most of us have moved on, I hope. Minus GI Joe's suicide, that was us. I kept waiting for something to…
Aug 10, 2014BWilsoned rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Wow. I'm so glad I did NOT go to a high school like the one in this book. It was scary to read about these kids' behaviors in and out of school, not to mention the adults involved (or not in some cases). Intense read.
Dec 16, 2013dprodrig rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This is a book full of dark sick things that can possibly happen in the night were you a cheerleader from a very strange world.
Nov 16, 2013JCLGreggW rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Megan Abbot writes wonderfully about the dark things in the human heart. Here, she turns her elegantly-written brand of literary noir to a suburban group of cheerleaders who has a new coach. The shake-up dethrones the group's alpha female,…
Aug 12, 2013JCLRachelSH rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Cheerleader noir! This was even better than I'd hoped it would be. When I read Megan Abbott's Queenpin, I thought it was OK but it didn't blow me away -- I've never really been lured in by the old-timey, hard-boiled milieu that Queenpin…
Feb 13, 2013a_campbell rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
Book seemed slow, and took a while to get into the good stuff. It didn't grip me well, and I forced myself to finish. It's a lighter book, and seemed directed at young adults. It was unfortunately not much of a mind bender or thriller.
Feb 04, 2013ehbooklover rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Awful. Horrible people doing ugly and disturbing things to each other. I couldn't finish this one.
LocketLibrarian
Jan 14, 2013LocketLibrarian rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I like the term "noir cheerleaders" coined by other reviewers. This is a hard book to say I loved. The characters are mean, flawed, and generally unlikable. No one does anything you can truly root for. Yet, it is compelling. The world of…
Sep 24, 2012renheart115 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I thought this book was soooo interesting. It was a bit scary to see that catty side of teenage cheerleaders. But it gripped me, and kept me hooked throughout pretty much the whole book. Some parts I didn't really understand, because I…
jeanner222
Sep 22, 2012jeanner222 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Addy Hanlon has always played second fiddle to her bestie (and frenemy), Beth Cassidy. As the trusted lieutenant to the cheer squad’s captain, Addy is protected by Beth. Together, they rule the squad. Everything changes when a new cheer…
Sep 19, 2012
In this realistically creepy, atmospheric novel, Sutton Grove High School and the girls who vie for supremacy on its cheerleading squad could be anywhere in the U.S. All is fine (if sometimes a bit vicious and petty) with them until new…
bookpusher
Aug 24, 2012bookpusher rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
LOVE, Love, love this author!! Lies & truth, revenge & mystery! Can't wait for the next one!