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Kristina McBride

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4 verk 326 medlemmar 57 recensioner

Verk av Kristina McBride

One Moment (2012) 161 exemplar
The Tension of Opposites (2010) 129 exemplar
A Million Times Goodnight (2015) 22 exemplar
The Bakersville Dozen (2017) 14 exemplar

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Födelsedag
20th Century
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Bostadsorter
Centerville, Ohio, USA

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I didn't know what to expect when I started this book. But I loved how it showed how not just the victim is affected, but how true friends and family of a kidnapped child are affected as well.
 
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stark.reading.mad | 14 andra recensioner | Apr 2, 2023 |
Maggie has a crazy-happy life... she hangs with a group of friends that she's had since grade-school, including her amazing boyfriend Joey. Memorial Day weekend is supposed to be a fun weekend of parties and swimming, but then Joey has an accident... and everything changes. The 5 friends are all trying to deal with the death of their friend, while Maggie is trying to figure out what really happened the day Joey died. She knows that she went to the top of the jumping rock with him, but she doesn't seem to remember what happened after that. Why did he jump and she didn't? As she struggles to regain her memories, she starts finding out things about Joey.... secrets he'd had. And Maggie starts to wonder "How well can you ever really know a person?"

I was given this as an ARC from NetGalley to review :)

I loved this book!!! It was seriously addicting for me! I kind of knew the direction it was going in, but I still had to read it to believe it! I don't want to give anything away, but I really liked the issue of dealing with someone's flaws after they are dead. When someone dies all people want to remember are the good things, but this book made the characters face the issue of someone dying with unresovled issues (and not good ones).

It would be a really good beach read for this summer because it's got that whole mystery thing going on. I think I am going to read it again before my license expires :)

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Michelle_PPDB | 35 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2023 |
LOVED!!! It's not perfect, but it's perfectly twisty and exciting-- which is just how I like my YA Mystery/Thrillers!

I was a BIG fan of Kristina's previous book, [b:One Moment|12795982|One Moment|Kristina McBride|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1333738414s/12795982.jpg|17944098]. It had me staying up until the wee hours of the morning to find out what happened-- and I must say The Bakersville Dozen basically had the same effect. I opened it up one night, only planning on reading the first few chapters, but suddenly I was HOOKED. Next thing I knew, I was almost halfway through the book and it was WAY later than I intended to stay up. So yeah, Kristina McBride is good at getting me NEEDING to know and not being able to put her books down.

The Bakersville Dozen wasn't perfect. It felt a little like there was something missing between the video incident and the girls going missing. I wasn't feeling the sense of urgency from a town that should have had a media frenzy going on. I mean, you've got a viral video and girls from the video kidnapped possibly dead? The media would have taken over this town.

Also, I couldn't help but screaming inside my head COPS!!! CALL THE DAMN COPS!!

The thing is: it was a wild ride. And that helped me move past some of my rational thinking. I read a lot of mystery and I feel like I'm good at figuring things like this out-- but I did NOT figure this out. And I was fooled big-time along the way. I loved the twists that this book took, and I loved being completely tricked into thinking something that turned out to be wrong.

So, was this book the most realistic mystery/thriller to ever grace the shelves?? No. As a reader, you'll need to just go with it-- there are things that make no sense, times when it's so obvious the police should be involved, and the ending/"big reveal" is a tad rushed. BUT this book is entertaining and plain fun if you can let yourself go and just enjoy.

OVERALL: LOVED!! It took me back to my youth when I was ALL about the thriller/mysteries (think Point Horror, Fear Street-type stuff). I loved going along with Bailey and following these random "clues". I loved that I was WRONG about a lot of stuff and there was a twist that totally got me in the end. I definitely recommend this to fans of teen horror/thrillers. It totally had a I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER vibe.

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Michelle_PPDB | 4 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2023 |
I wasn't sure about this one at first - sometimes the first few pages don't feel right, especially if the writing is a different style than the book I've just finished, but I found myself pleasantly surprised. This author did a great job of misdirection and peppering red herrings throughout the pages, making for some nice twists. Not perfect, but a decent YA mystery. Warning: Could use a final edit.
 
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ShannonHollinger | 4 andra recensioner | Feb 15, 2021 |

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Verk
4
Medlemmar
326
Popularitet
#72,687
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
57
ISBN
20

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