I love stories about rich kids behaving badly, so I was incredible excited to dive into a world of exclusive, secret societies, fancy New England prep schools, and murder. However, I was left slightly let down with a lackluster build to a predictable and benign ending.
This story follows the Players, an exclusive group that only 8 freshmen are invited to join every year after rigorous rounds of interviews, personal errands for the upperclassmen, and hazing. We meet up with MC Jill in her senior year. It's her class's turn to lead the Players, but they are still reeling from the death of their friend, and fellow Player initiate at the time, Shaila.
As mentioned earlier, the ending was super predictable, which although that isn't always a bad thing (it can be fun to see how they got there) in this case it was just too obvious that it took the fun out. I also felt that the stakes leading up to the murder weren't high enough, and so I felt like the murder was a little abrupt and didn't make sense. Lastly, I was annoyed with the Players because they kept talking about how much they hated their own pledging process and wanted to change it now that they were in charge, and then would be just as horrible? And then kept saying how bad they felt but didn't do anything? I liked the secrets and the mystery, but overall have read better YA thrillers.
This story follows the Players, an exclusive group that only 8 freshmen are invited to join every year after rigorous rounds of interviews, personal errands for the upperclassmen, and hazing. We meet up with MC Jill in her senior year. It's her class's turn to lead the Players, but they are still reeling from the death of their friend, and fellow Player initiate at the time, Shaila.
As mentioned earlier, the ending was super predictable, which although that isn't always a bad thing (it can be fun to see how they got there) in this case it was just too obvious that it took the fun out. I also felt that the stakes leading up to the murder weren't high enough, and so I felt like the murder was a little abrupt and didn't make sense. Lastly, I was annoyed with the Players because they kept talking about how much they hated their own pledging process and wanted to change it now that they were in charge, and then would be just as horrible? And then kept saying how bad they felt but didn't do anything? I liked the secrets and the mystery, but overall have read better YA thrillers.