Lisa Schroeder

The Night Of meets Carrie when a boy finds a girl's body in the ditch on prom night...and becomes the primary suspect in her murder. All Mario wants is one normal night before he graduates. He's spent most of high school riding solo and gaming with his only friend, Lucas. But when his mom asks him to take Elana Dexter to the prom as a favor to her father, his mother's boss, he figures this might be his chance to be less of a loner. Only, the night takes a turn quickly. First, Mario gets crowned Prom King alongside the school's it-girl, Maribelle Starr. Which is weird enough. But what's weirder is that when they put the crown on his head, hundreds of worms slither out of it and all over Mario. Just when Mario thought the night couldn't get any worse, he sees something on the side of the road while driving Elana home. That something is Prom Queen Maribelle Starr--murdered and left for dead. All Mario wanted was to go to prom...but somehow, he ended up in hell. Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror paperback original titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.

A Night to Die for

Alex 

“Look I just want to get out of here. Start over. Start a new life. I’m tired of being me.” 

I have read Episode stories with a better plot than this. 

I genuinely cannot think of one redeeming quality about this book, so I will proceed with criticizing it. Spoilers for spoiler-y bits, you know the drill.

-There were 12 POVs. I'm not exaggerating. I counted. There were maybe 4 POVs that were worth having--Some only had one or two chapters. I wasn't invested in them, and so many of them were similar in voice. 

-I think it's fairly common to have a slightly bumbling police force in YA thrillers--if a teenager is out here solving a crime that professionals can't, but the incompetency of this one was so frustrating.

-A good mystery has well placed hints throughout the novel, not just at the 75% mark. It's not bamboozling your audience if you give no indications until you have to have a reveal. Maybe if there were less POVs it'd be more believable.

-If you're going to have a character who committed the crime have a POV, they need to clearly be hiding something.

-Everyone was annoying. The adults were awful. The teenagers sounded like stereotypes of what adults think teenagers sound like, and the adults sounded like what young teenagers think adults sound like

I did look forward to this. My hopes were immediately dashed when I saw that 

was advertised on the back. I have a review for that book up on here as well, but suffice it to say this one was just as bad as, if not worse in terms of writing/story, than 

Holly

I have read Episode stories with a better plot than this. 

I genuinely cannot think of one redeeming quality about this book, so I will proceed with criticizing it. Spoilers for spoiler-y bits, you know the drill.

-There were 12 POVs. I'm not exaggerating. I counted. There were maybe 4 POVs that were worth having--Some only had one or two chapters. I wasn't invested in them, and so many of them were similar in voice. 

-I think it's fairly common to have a slightly bumbling police force in YA thrillers--if a teenager is out here solving a crime that professionals can't, but the incompetency of this one was so frustrating.

-A good mystery has well placed hints throughout the novel, not just at the 75% mark. It's not bamboozling your audience if you give no indications until you have to have a reveal. Maybe if there were less POVs it'd be more believable.

-If you're going to have a character who committed the crime have a POV, they need to clearly be hiding something.

-Everyone was annoying. The adults were awful. The teenagers sounded like stereotypes of what adults think teenagers sound like, and the adults sounded like what young teenagers think adults sound like

I did look forward to this. My hopes were immediately dashed when I saw that Horror Hotel was advertised on the back. I have a review for that book up on here as well, but suffice it to say this one was just as bad as, if not worse in terms of writing/story, than Horror Hotel

A Night to Die for

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