Dangerous Boy
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
In this modern-day retelling of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, an ordinary girl’s life takes a spine-chilling turn when she meets a mysterious newcomer.
“Genuinely creepy.”—Publishers Weekly
Harper’s new boyfriend, Logan Townsend, is everything she never knew she always wanted—suave, well-dressed, with tousled brown hair that falls effortlessly around his face. But what’s most exciting about Logan is that he’s exhilaratingly dangerous, and dating him allows Harper to say goodbye to her good-girl past and hello to newfound adventure.
There’s only one problem with Harper’s otherwise heart-stopping romance: Logan’s twin brother, Daemon. Harper knows he’s a bad seed, but she tries to look past his dark, icy stare and his chilling demeanor. After all, he and Logan are a package deal.
Then cow bones start appearing in people’s mailboxes, a flock of dead birds is scattered around school, and cars in the senior parking lot end up covered with blood-red handprints. Logan insists that Daemon isn’t involved. Sure, he’s had some trouble in the past, but they moved to Harper’s quiet northwest Washington town so that they could both start over.
Harper desperately wants to believe Logan, but the more he tries to protect his brother, the more she wonders what she isn’t being told. Harper must unearth the hidden secrets of the mysterious Townsend brothers’ history if she and Logan are to have any hope of a future. But discovering what brought Logan and Daemon to town will put more than just her heart in jeopardy . . . she’s playing with her life.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hubbard's (Prada and Prejudice) thriller is genuinely creepy, but a teaser prologue and a telegraphed ending diffuse the story's tension. Though farm daughter Harper has a lot going for her she's gorgeous, smart, and effortlessly popular she misses her mother, who died while rock climbing, and is fearful of the outside world, even keeping a list of the things that scare her. Also, strange circumstances in her small town (including thousands of mysterious bird corpses and bloody cow bones left in mailboxes) have her especially on edge. Harper has recently fallen for hot new hunk Logan, who urges her to overcome her phobias, but a visit to his house reveals his homeschooled twin brother, Daemon, the nasty antithesis of Logan. Logan's decision to hide Daemon's existence from Harper throws a spanner into their relationship. Hubbard drives the action forward at an engrossing pace, but as the denouement hits, the "twist" is so obvious that Harper's obliviousness to it comes across as unbelievable. Readers who can look past the predictability will be drawn into the horror-tinged story. Ages 12 up.