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A review by findingmontauk1
Grad Night by Carver Pike
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.5
Phew - this book put me through some things! I spent a lot of the book angry (at the kids AND teachers), worried (for the teachers), and did I say I was angry?
Ok, so TL;DR this story is about teachers who go to a Graduation Party that turns to hell and mayhem.
My first thought: what the hell are these teachers doing going to a Graduation Party? With alcohol and underage teens? For kids we can tell they either do not like at all or are afraid of? I definitely had to suspend some belief here and let that go because if they never went to the part of 17 and 18 year olds... none of this ever would have happened.
Then, these kids? EFF THESE ENTITLED, SPOILED, WHINY, BRATS! OMG... like, sure, there is apparently some entity/manifestation in the form of an evil boy constantly lurking/supervising these events... but these students are pure hellish nightmares. I wanted so many bad things to happen to them... ugh. And the teachers knew the students were like this... so again, how lame their lives MUST be to think going to this party would be fun (let alone appropriate) is beyond me.
The party was when the book picked up steam. The students start making the teachers play games (grammar checks, spelling contest, etc) and the losers... well, they die. And some of these deaths are BRUTAL! WHOA. But it's just another reason I want to see these teens have their cell phones ripped from their hands and cry and cry and cry at their unfair lives... did I mention how angry these little a-holes made me? LOL
There is sort of a love story in the works here... but it's not the main plot of the book. But it does add some levity to this insane night of torture, chaos, and death. 3.5 stars and now I am intrigued to read more from this author!
Ok, so TL;DR this story is about teachers who go to a Graduation Party that turns to hell and mayhem.
My first thought: what the hell are these teachers doing going to a Graduation Party? With alcohol and underage teens? For kids we can tell they either do not like at all or are afraid of? I definitely had to suspend some belief here and let that go because if they never went to the part of 17 and 18 year olds... none of this ever would have happened.
Then, these kids? EFF THESE ENTITLED, SPOILED, WHINY, BRATS! OMG... like, sure, there is apparently some entity/manifestation in the form of an evil boy constantly lurking/supervising these events... but these students are pure hellish nightmares. I wanted so many bad things to happen to them... ugh. And the teachers knew the students were like this... so again, how lame their lives MUST be to think going to this party would be fun (let alone appropriate) is beyond me.
The party was when the book picked up steam. The students start making the teachers play games (grammar checks, spelling contest, etc) and the losers... well, they die. And some of these deaths are BRUTAL! WHOA. But it's just another reason I want to see these teens have their cell phones ripped from their hands and cry and cry and cry at their unfair lives... did I mention how angry these little a-holes made me? LOL
There is sort of a love story in the works here... but it's not the main plot of the book. But it does add some levity to this insane night of torture, chaos, and death. 3.5 stars and now I am intrigued to read more from this author!