Run
A Vengeance Novel
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
A twisted murder, a tangle of lies... Now Rylee must run for her life
What if you discovered that everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie?
Rylee is fifteen. She comes home from school one afternoon to find the most shocking thing possible - her father dead, with a knife through his heart, and a key clutched in his hand. Her mother's purse is on the counter, but she appears to be long gone. A message in blood is written on the floor... RUN.
With her brother in tow, Rylee begins a dark journey, one that will uncover horrific and chilling crimes and lead her to an unexpected and gruesome discovery about her real father and what - or who - is behind his insatiable desire to kill. By the journey's end Rylee's childhood is a long way behind her...
RUN is the first title in the new Vengeance series, following Rylee as she begins to piece together the story of her life and to avenge unpunished crimes - starting with her own. This is DEXTER with a feisty female protagonist unlike any other in contemporary young adult fiction.
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Not much is left to the imagination in this grisly thriller from Olsen (Envy). High school sophomore Rylee Cassidy and her seven-year-old brother, Hayden, leave home immediately after she comes home from school to discover their stepfather has been killed and their mother is gone. The siblings aren't strangers to life on the road along with their mother, they have been evading a dangerous man for years. As Rylee follows her mother's clues in an attempt to save her and get revenge, Olsen unspools the disturbing details of this man's identity and the siblings' family history through Rylee's pulpy, hard-edged narration ("He'll never get to enjoy his fame the way that I will revel in his death"). Thin on character development and heavy on plot machinations, Olsen's story tends to sensationalize Rylee's mother's horrific past as it digs into the mind of a serial killer. Rylee is unflinching in the face of danger but, as a protagonist, she isn't much else, which leaves the novel reading like the equivalent of a TV procedural. Ages 13 up.
