Framed for the murder of her best friend, a young girl joins a super-secret society of teenage assassins to avoid a lifetime behind bars--and discovers her own true self--in this mesmerizing debut novel.
Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A--the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile.
To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for 18-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she and seven bunkmates will train as assassins. Yet even in the Teen Killers Club, Signal doesn't fit in. She's squeamish around blood. She's kind and empathetic. And her optimistic attitude is threatening to turn a group of ragtag maniacs into a team of close-knit friends.
Maybe that's because Signal's not really a killer. She was framed for Rose's murder and only joined the program to escape, track down Rose's real killer, and clear her name. But Signal never planned on the sinister technologies that keep the campers confined. She never planned on the mysterious man in the woods determined to pick them off one by one. And she certainly never planned on falling in love.
Signal's strategy is coming apart at the seams as the true killer prepares to strike again in Teen Killers Club.
This was SO GOOD!! There better be a sequel or I am going to riot.
Signal Deere wakes up in a shed with her best friend's decapitated head in her lap and no memory of what happened. With an 80 year sentence and a class A criminal classification, things are looking pretty bleak for Signal. Until she's offered a place in a top secret program for under-18 class A's, otherwise known as the Teen Killers Club. There, she makes friends with an unlikely band of misfit murderers who are being prepped for life as assassins and with the help of Erik, she tries to solve the murder she was convicted for.
This is a twisty, mystery of a story with so much to solve and think about; you never know who to trust, the idea of good and evil is blurred and ofcourse there's a big dollop of teen angst thrown in. The ONLY thing I didn't particularly like about this book was the love triangle, I'm just not into them, but other than that I thought it was fantastic. I can't believe this is a debut novel, it's really well written and is totally gripping. And after that ending, I mean what I said about the sequel...there will be RIOTS!
Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for sending me a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
