Beth Fantaskey

Seventeen-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Colton, to try to uncover who murdered head football coach "Hollerin' Hank" Killdare--and why.

Buzz Kill

Ana Ignat

*I received this as an ARC for an honest review*

Buzz Kill by Beth Fantaskey was a really enjoyable book. The characters were well written and the story was very interesting. I really liked the Nancy Drew vibe this book gave off. There were some unexpected twists and I did not expect the murderers identity. I really thought I knew who it was, but I was so wrong.

I really liked Millie because of her determination and her personality in general. She seems like someone I would love to be friends with. She really cares about her dad, and when Vivienne Fitch accuses her dad of murdering Coach Killdare, or Hollerin' Hank, she starts investigating the murder to protect her dad. While she is investigating, she runs into Chase Albright and they start investigating together. Chase is the star quarterback of the football team, pretty much fluent in french, has a very witty humour and loves foreign films. He comes off as a typical jock, but as the book goes on we learn more about him and his past. I liked seeing Chase's character develop, and open up to Millie and I just really liked both of them in general.

The romance in this book was really nice. I liked it because it wasn't "love at first sight" and we got to see the awkwardness at first between them and as the book progresses they became more comfortable around each other. I think this book was a great contemporary mystery and I would recommend it to any Nancy Drew fans or anyone looking for a cute romance mixed in with mystery!

Ok, so pretty much Chase is really amazing. His love for foreign films is really cute and dang he knows fluent french *heart eyes emojiis* I just really love him and his moments of sensitivity. He seems like a really caring guy and I want a second book just to read about him more, although the ending didn't really make it possible for a second book.

In this fresh and funny teen mystery, 17-year-old Millie joins forces with her classmate, gorgeous but mysterious Chase Albright, to try to discover who murdered head football coach "Hollerin' Hank" Killdare—and why. Simultaneous eBook. 50,000 first printing.

Lynn Braden

Buzz Kill is a fun, enjoyable read by Beth Fantaskey. The story is a mystery with both romance and action elements in it. The main character, Millie, who reports for her high school newspaper, finds the body of the head football coach in a storage room with his head bashed in. There are many suspects to the killing including, Cheerleader Viv, who is Millie's self-described "arch-nemesis," Mike, who is a"disgraced football player," and quarterback, Chase, who is as mysterious as he is handsome. The main suspect, however, is Millie's father, Jack, who is an assistant football coach and town mayor. Millie has already lost her mother to cancer, and she can't afford to lose her other parent to prison.
As Millie investigates, she finds out more about Coach Killdare, both good and bad, and why lots of people had motive to kill him. She also discovers that there is a lot about Chase that she never could have imagined. When Mike Price is also killed, suspicion falls even more heavily on Millie's father, and she must expand her investigation if she is to keep him out of prison.
Millie's childhood hero is Nancy Drew, and this story reads like a modern version of a Nancy Drew mystery. Millie is extremely intelligent with a sarcastic sense of humor that makes her first-person account even more fun to read - an excellent young adult mystery.

Buzz Kill

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