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Alexandra Sirowy

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The Creeping (2015) 244 exemplar
First We Were IV (2017) 95 exemplar
The Telling (2016) 80 exemplar
Le Dernier saut (2018) 2 exemplar
Dans l'ombre de Stella (1) (2017) 1 exemplar

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4.5 Stars bc there were SLIGHT things I would change (like teen talk), but mostly just a big giant YES to this book. Equal parts creepy and swoony.

When Stella was 6, she went into the woods with Jeanie... she came back, but Jeanie was never found. The mystery of Jeanie has haunted the town of Savage for 11 years, but Stella can't remember anything that happened that day.

Now Stella is celebrating her summer before Senior year by partying with her friends and crushing on cute lacrosse boys. She's doesn't want to remember her past, she wants to move on. Then a body of a young girl surfaces on the anniversary of Jeanie's disappearance, and Stella knows that the key to stopping the madness is her blocked out memory.

The path she goes down leads her to legends, myths, monsters, and murderers.


My Thoughts:
I totally loved this book. It was not perfect by any means-- There was "teen talk" (the phrase -tastic is tacked onto WAY too many words for my liking), Stella wasn't the strongest female lead in the world (and she definitely had some thoughts in her head that enraged me), and the main friendship between Zoey and Stella was definitely NOT the healthiest-- and I didn't care in the least!! Sure, I would have changed a few of those things if I had my way, but the things I loved about this book COMPLETELY outweighed the things I didn't.

Stella is in a popular girl clique that didn't want to get involved in the mystery of the town and what happened to Jeanie. This leads Stella to turn to a former friend (someone that her BFF Zoey doesn't approve of)-- Sam, King of the Dorks. Sam and Stella have a history and some pretty serious chemistry-- and the boy just cares so damn much! Every scene he was in I was just like-- SWOON!! I couldn't think straight... so basically 70% of this book could suck and I wouldn't know it because when Sam was around, I was in a love haze. Okay, seriously 70% of this book DOES NOT SUCK. I made that up :)

For real though-- I was wishing that the Zoey/Stella friendship was a TAD healthier. I'm kind of sick of "frenemy" relationships in YA. These characters care about each other a lot more than typical "frenemies", but Zoey is so mean and controlling that I had trouble understanding Stella's love for her. Even though this book is 400 pages, I still felt like the ending felt rushed. Like it just crept (LOL) up on me all of a sudden and played out so quickly, I could hardly wrap my brain around it.

What this book has in A quantities is ATMOSPHERE. I don't think this was a scary, horror-type book, but it definitely lived up to it's title- CREEPY. I was reading it at night after everyone in my house was asleep and I had a few moments where I thought I heard noises and had to go check. That doesn't happen too often to me with books. I was super intrigued whether the monsters in this book were real. I would be 99% sure they weren't, but one chapter later, I'd be thinking that YES they totally are.

The other A thing was the Sam/Stella relationship. Stella treated Sam like crap again and again after Zoey exiled him, but it didn't deter his love for Stella. While maybe people like that don't exist in real life, I wish that they would. And extra points that Sam was not described as this mega-hot guy living in a nerd disguise. He was just an okay looking boy who Stella knew she could count on.

OVERALL: I was addicted to the mystery and the romance in this book. I'm not the biggest fan of romance, but the relationship in this book was beyond adorable. I couldn't NOT like... and it basically made the book for me. I totally recommend this!!

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Michelle_PPDB | 9 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2023 |
OMG I am so beyond happy about this book. It's a new fave and I might even like it better than The Creeping.

Have you ever read a book that you love only to find that it's the author's only book out right now and you have to WAIT to get your hands on more by this potential favorite author?? As the pub. date approaches, you start to get nervous that maybe you won't like the book as well as the first book. And you can't decide if you want the book to have the same feeling to it or be completely different. You just know that you want it to make you as happy as you were when you read the first book.

Well, maybe for the first time EVER, this has worked out for me. I read [b:The Creeping|23309610|The Creeping|Alexandra Sirowy|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1439787121s/23309610.jpg|25878877] and completely loved it. The feelings, the atmosphere, the boy.... it was so unexpected and I was DYING to read more by Alexandra Sirowy. Now, The Telling is out, and I can tell you if you liked The Creeping, you will like this book. It feels so much like that book, but it's different enough.

Two months ago Lana's step-brother Ben was murdered by an unknown man who supposedly had a red painted face. Now, the only witness to the crime (an unreliable, maybe involved ex-girlfriend named Maggie) is found dead. As Lana goes back through the memories of her brother, she decides that she needs to solve this mystery. Did the red-faced man kill Maggie to keep her quiet? Is Lana going to be next??

This book is set on an island near Seattle. You have to take a ferry to get there. It totally reminded me of [b:Burn for Burn|13406425|Burn for Burn (Burn for Burn, #1)|Jenny Han|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1332791803s/13406425.jpg|15571673] and [b:Zoey Fools Around|1044852|Zoey Fools Around (Making Out, #1)|Katherine Applegate|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1375604621s/1044852.jpg|1031271] series of my youth, and I completely loved it. It took the creepiness feeling to a higher level because-- isolation = scary. I loved the mystery and there were flashbacks including stories that Ben used to make up for games of make-believe when they were kids. The stories were always kind of twisted and horror-like and it added to the plot because I just never knew if these stories were going to become part of the mystery-- like the monsters of the stories might somehow be real??

What I love about this book and The Creeping is the fine line between the supernatural and reality. When things don't have easy answers, sometimes it's easier to think something creepy or unexplainable is going on. And sometimes if you dig deep enough, it is explainable. I like not being sure which one it's going to be.

OVERALL: YES!!! I was supremely happy with Alexandra Sirowy's 2nd book. It lived up to my high expectations and gave me back everything I loved in The Creeping and more. I recommend both books-- especially during this time of year.

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Michelle_PPDB | 6 andra recensioner | Mar 18, 2023 |

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I was definitely drawn into The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy because of two things: that amazing cover and the last line of the synopsis summarizing the book into three simple words, love, blood, and murder. Who doesn’t want to read about love, blood, and murder? Those are the three BEST things to read about! Certainly, I was not disappointed. In fact, Alexandra Sirowy blew me away with The Telling where now I’m hoping there could be a sequel for reasons I’ll talk about below.

Normally, if I read YA, it tends to be fantasy, so for me to pick up a contemporary YA book really felt like a nice break of pace. It honestly, at the start, reminded me a bit of Gossip Girl (the tv show, never got into the books). Rich, privileged, 17 year olds getting away with anything they want thanks to neglectful parents and legal system. Then you have Lana and Willa, the Brooklyn Gossip Girl crowd that somehow make their way into the cool kids group. I loved it to be honest! But, that was only the very first impression since within the first few pages, everything changes as Lana pulls a body out of the water. The body of a girl she hated.

As the book progresses, more people are killed connected to Lana, people Lana hated. Lana begins to doubt her sanity. I begin to doubt her sanity and secretly think she’s committing the crimes and just blacking out. Why would she do that, one might ask. Well, because off screen, before the book has started, her step-brother was murdered.

SPOILERS?? SPOILERS?? SPOILERS?? SPOILERS?? SPOILERS?? SPOILERS??

A STEP-BROTHER SHE WAS IN LOVE WITH!!! IS THIS A SPOILER I DON’T KNOW BUT HONESTLY I’M SO EXCITED ABOUT IT I JUST NEED TO LET IT OUT! I absolutely love that trope in books, siblings or step-siblings kinda falling in love with each other and not out of abuse or necessity, but naturally. So, I was just reading this and the masterful way Sirowy has Lana talk about Ben just places the barest hint that maybe her feelings were more than just sisterly. So, I waited, and read, and kept thinking please, let it be so, and it was!

Though, okay, that wasn’t what made me love the book. What actually made me love the book was the suspense and trying to figure out who was actually committing the murders and why. Then, trying to untangle Ben’s shadowy past to find out what led him and his mother to Lana and her father. The character development was well done, pacing was FANTASTIC!! Never once did I feel like it was going too slow, or too fast. It just continually had me wanting to know what would happen next.

The Telling by Alexandra Sirowy is a marvelous YA contemporary mystery novel that seems to do everything right. Characters are developed and progress naturally through the story, the plot and mystery are well thought out and written. It was simply a great book!

// I received this title for free in exchange for an honest review //
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heylu | 6 andra recensioner | Jan 8, 2020 |
I was looking forward to a spooky October read, but what I got was a bad young adult romance novel. Not bad because of the romance, but bad because of how the romance was portrayed. The mystery part of the book was fine, but it was drowned out by sterotypical high schoolers obsessed with popularity. The main character and her best friend are horrible. They treat others badly in the name of preserving their popularity. This has been done in YA novels before, but usually there is something redeming about the popular girl that the reader is supposed to care about. There is nothing redeeming about their friendship and how they treat others. They don't even seem to have any remorse, they simply rationalize how they had no choice but to be a bully. Even worse is the main romantic relationship. The main character treats her love interest horribly all the time and he still pines after her and keeps hoping that one day she will realize that he cares for her. She is awful to him and he keeps coming back for more. This is not a healthy relationship or one that teens should aspire for. In short, the relationships in the book were dysfunctional and they dominated the story more than the mystery. If you are looking for a good creepy read, look for something else.… (mer)
 
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Cora-R | 9 andra recensioner | Jun 25, 2019 |

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½ 3.6
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