13 Minutes

by Sarah Pinborough

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This book made me glad that I'm not a teenager anymore! Basically every girl in this book was a bitch except for one, and that includes the main character.

Becca is basically the goth girl in her grade, despite formerly being friends with the ultimate Barbie, Tasha. But when Tasha is pulled from the cold river, nearly dead, Becca doesn't hesitate to run to her side. Tasha seems eager to have her back in her life, no longer completely trusting her other besties, Hayley and Jenny. So eager that she asks Becca to help her figure out how she ended up in the river.

Becca is torn between not trusting Tasha's motives and longing for the friendship they once had (and the belonging that being in Tasha's good graces leads to). But Becca is not immune from being a mean girl -- she doesn't treat the other people in her life much better than Tasha does.

There are a lot of twists and turns in this story, and though I wasn't completely surprised by the who in the whodunnit, I was surprised by how it all ended. I would definitely read another book by this author.