Bad Like Us
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Two friend groups collide when someone turns up dead over spring break in this heart-thumping YA thriller for fans of One of Us Is Lying and We Were Liars
Spring break is a vibe—until someone gets murdered
Partying with popular classmates they barely know is not what Eva and her BFFs had in mind for their spring break. But things have been off ever since Miles' academic career took a turn for the worse (they don't talk about it), so a trip to a private beach lodge might be exactly what they need. And Eva won’t admit it, but the chance to reconnect with Colton is worth putting up with Piper’s constant livestreams to her thousands of “besties.”
At first, it’s all sand and waves, but tensions run high when an anonymous letter shakes up an already-flailing love triangle.
When someone turns up dead, Eva can’t even trust her closest friends—but she thinks she can trust Colton. As they get closer to the truth, they uncover secrets that upend everything they thought they knew about their fellow spring breakers.
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High school senior Eva Porta is looking forward to a relaxing spring break getaway at a classmate's private seaside cabin in woodsy Tillamook County with eight friends. Despite Eva's best attempts to let loose, have fun, and get closer to her crush Colton Demarco, the trip is immediately plagued by romantic drama and tensions from a recent academic cheating scandal. Incessant and intrusive Instagramming from Piper Meyers, the most glamorous and connected of the group, intensifies the existing conflicts. When one of the friends turns up dead under suspicious circumstances, Eva finds herself desperately untangling a sordid web of secrets to uncover the killer hiding in their midst. Though the overarching narrative is sometimes bogged down by a too large cast and inconsistently developed motivations, Lepore (The Last One to Fall) keeps the reader guessing by juggling multiple perspectives, flashbacks, and fictional interstitial audio transcripts and news articles, and lightly touches on issues of economic privilege, jealousy, and social media overconsumption in this fast-paced, dramatically executed locked-room murder mystery. Most of the protagonists read as white except for classmate Alice, who is Black. Ages 13–up.
