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This is a thriller revolving around a group of teens who secretly steal away for a party to a remote castle (owned by the parents of one of them) during part of their school break. A freak violent storm ensues, flooding the moat surrounding the castle, and as they are cut off from civilization, bodies start piling up. Is the killer one of their own or a member of the group opposing the development of the castle into modern apartments?
I wanted to like this more, but I found it too full of trite teen horror movie stereotypical behavior. The storm is too ferocious, the teens either too over-the-top with drama or too blase about the things that matter and concerned about those that don't, and the disclosure about the mystery surrounding the killer's actions too trivial to warrant the deaths of so-called friends.
Unfortunately, I just found the characters and their relationships too shallow and the story too familiar.
My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Children's/Delacorte Press for providing the free early arc of The Party for review. The opinions are strictly my own.
I wanted to like this more, but I found it too full of trite teen horror movie stereotypical behavior. The storm is too ferocious, the teens either too over-the-top with drama or too blase about the things that matter and concerned about those that don't, and the disclosure about the mystery surrounding the killer's actions too trivial to warrant the deaths of so-called friends.
Unfortunately, I just found the characters and their relationships too shallow and the story too familiar.
My thanks to NetGalley and Random House Children's/Delacorte Press for providing the free early arc of The Party for review. The opinions are strictly my own.