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A review by beautifullybookishbethany
Scream Site by Justina Ireland
3.0
Scream Site is a fast-paced, kind of creepy mystery that tackles safety on the internet and would be appropriate for younger teens, say 12 or 13 years old. High school freshman Sabrina dreams of becoming an investigative journalist and needs the perfect article for her internship application. When she begins investigating the link between missing girls and website for amateur horror videos, things become a little too real and connected with her own life.
This was a quick and pretty enjoyable read. The writing level definitely feels like it's on the younger end and it gets a bit didactic about the the importance of internet safety with things like identity theft and stalking. But overall it was an interesting, slightly creepy if ultimately tame story. Sabrina sometimes does some stupid things in her investigation, but to be fair, the adults in her life seem very quick to attribute everything to her overactive imagination and grief over the death of her father. The family dynamics (widowed mom who works all the time, distant older sister) felt realistic, if sad. Some of the plot points were a bit convenient, and couple of things with the ending didn't quite make sense, but overall I think this could be a good mystery-thriller introduction for a young teen. I agreed to review an early copy of this book via NetGalley.
This was a quick and pretty enjoyable read. The writing level definitely feels like it's on the younger end and it gets a bit didactic about the the importance of internet safety with things like identity theft and stalking. But overall it was an interesting, slightly creepy if ultimately tame story. Sabrina sometimes does some stupid things in her investigation, but to be fair, the adults in her life seem very quick to attribute everything to her overactive imagination and grief over the death of her father. The family dynamics (widowed mom who works all the time, distant older sister) felt realistic, if sad. Some of the plot points were a bit convenient, and couple of things with the ending didn't quite make sense, but overall I think this could be a good mystery-thriller introduction for a young teen. I agreed to review an early copy of this book via NetGalley.