S.T.A.G.S follows the story of Greer, who is an outsider in a school of rich, privileged, and lost in the past students. She receives an invitation to spend the weekend with the Medievals, aka the top rich kids. The invitation details that there will be “huntin’, shootin’, and fishin’”. From there, you follow Greer’s weekend and the activities she partakes in over this weekend.

I expected more from S.T.A.G.S. It sounded like it was seriously going to shock me, but I found it slightly underwhelming and only a tad bloody. That’s probably just the twisted mind of mine wanting everything to go to complete hell. I feel like S.T.A.G.S would be a great novel for people just getting into YA fiction because it does have a thrilling concept. Another issue I had was the amount of film references. I...just did not care. There were like 20 of them and they were kind of shoved in my face every time something important happened. I also didn’t really feel emotionally connected to Greer.

As for the things I liked, I really enjoyed Shafeen’s character. I really enjoyed seeing an Indian character! He was probably my favorite character in this book. He’s smart and practical. What a king. It should have been through his POV.

Overall, I found S.T.A.G.S to be a bit predictable and underwhelming, but it was an easy read!