"Like Mean Girls, but British and deadly. . . . This book is great, from start to finish." --Hypable
Get ready for one deadly weekend in this twisting thriller for fans of Pretty Little Liars and One of Us is Lying that explores just how far the elite at an English boarding school will go.
Greer MacDonald has just started as a scholarship student at the exclusive St. Aidan the Great boarding school, known to its privileged pupils as STAGS. STAGS is a place where new things--and new people--are to be avoided. And in her first days there, Greer is ignored at best and mocked at worst by the school's most admired circle of friends, the Medievals.
So, naturally, Greer is taken by surprise when the Medievals send her an invitation to a sought-after weekend retreat at the private family estate of their unofficial leader, Henry de Warlencourt. It's billed as a weekend of "huntin' shootin' fishin'."
As the weekend begins to take shape, it becomes apparent that beyond the luxurious trappings, predators are lurking, and they're out for blood.
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"Reinvigorates the boarding-school thriller." --The Guardian
Initial thoughts: The uncertainty over whether or not the end of S.T.A.G.S. is the end of the story as it is written bothers me. Is this book it? Will there be a sequel?
While not a conventional "whodunnit" mystery novel, things still seemed fairly predictable on the surface. "Who died?" is the question. I was quite disappointed that I managed to answer that fairly early on in the book. But there's much more to the book than meets the eye and that's what really got to me.
There were parts during which I felt oddly dispassionate. Maybe that was the point because once I reached the punchline, my conflicting emotions came crashing down.
