This Book Kills by Ravena Guron

I am not sure what exactly had me reaching for this book. I am not always a fan of young adult thrillers, and at the time of picking this up, it had been a long while since I had done so. This is a simple setup. You have a scholarship girl in a fancy school, and she excels at English. She has made only one great friend early on, one who does not seem to care about her background, and they have shared a lot up until the point the story begins – the others seemed to hold her at arm’s length. We find out that the golden boy in the school has been two-timing. This becomes a very dramatic scene in front of everyone, and soon after, he ends up dead. The death occurs exactly the same way as part of a story that Jess (our main protagonist) wrote. The original document seems to be missing as well. To top things off, the secret club in the school seems to have started to amp up its antics. Under pressure, the school does the thing they find easiest, pick on the scholarship girls. Both of whom were part of the story-writing fiasco. This spurs Jess into action as she digs into every nook and cranny she can find. In the process, she finds a lot of information on her fellow classmates that she would never have believed, even after all the years they have all been living and studying together. The ending was unexpected and well-explained. The slow build-up to that point had me wondering a time or two about the possibility, but it was a believable twist. I liked the author’s style of narration and would recommend this to people who appreciate this genre. I would like to try more of her work. I received an ARC thanks to Netgalley and the publishers, but the review is entirely based on my own reading experience.