dannafs 's review for:

Prep School Confidential by Kara Taylor
4.0

Looking for a fun, trashy, young adult book? Prep School Confidential is awesome. It's chock-full of gossip and backstabbing, and the protagonist is an intelligently fantastic adolescent girl. I literally could not put this book down.

Anne Dowling, the queenbee of her exclusive, private high school gets expelled. Why? She accidentally torched her school. She ends oh at boarding school; Anne is horrified by the fashion choices, the hair highlights, and the sheer distance from NYC. Until she spots a cute boy and befriends her quirky roommate Isabel.

A week later, Isabel is dead. Anne doesn't think the school or the police are doing nearly enough to investigate. Anne is spunky, so obviously she takes the investigation on. When it seems the killer might be after her too, does Anne back off? Hell no. And that's why I love her.

Another of my favorite things? Romance is peripheral. There are love interests, but they are not the point of the story. Anne is just too busy solving murders to be caught up in love--but there are a couple of hot make out sessions.

Hurry up book #2! I can't believe I have to wait till 2014.