Teaser Tuesday: TEN by Gretchen McNeil

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 

Ten by Gretchen McNeil

6% of Kindle Edition

She wished it was September and she was already at college in LA away from all this, from everyone who knew her. Somewhere she could start over and not feel like such an awkward spaz all the time.

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Book Review: TEN by Gretchen McNeil

Title: Ten

Author: Gretchen McNeil

Publisher: Balzer + Bray (September 18, 2012)

Format: Kindle Edition

Source: Purchased

Genre: YA Horror

Goodreads 

And their doom comes swiftly.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school’s most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn’t scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?

Review: An edge-on-your-seat horror novel, Gretchen McNeil’s Ten reads like watching an amazing horror movie.

Meg didn’t want to go to the exclusive party on Henry Island, but someone has to watch her best friend Minnie in a house filled with boys and booze. The torrential storm isn’t enough to stop their fun until the friends watch a DVD with the message: Vengeance is mine. The electricity goes out and with no way to contact the outside world until the ferry comes on Monday, the teens settle in for a long weekend. But one by one, someone is hunting them, killing them, and they’ll learn what vengeance has in store for them.

Ten starts off with a simple invitation to an exclusive party on a secluded island. Add in a storm and no cell service, and you have all the makings of a horror novel. McNeil excelled at creating the characters. Each one came off as a distinct individual. The voice is fantastic, and I easily stepped into Meg’s head and saw and felt what she did. The elements of horror appeared loud and clear from the atmosphere to the no contact with the outside world to the fear involved in turning friends against each other. The story behind the murders and the way the teens died was cleverly crafted, and I was left guessing who the killer was until the very end.

Ten by Gretchen McNeil is easily one of my top ten favorite reads this year. The teenage angst and horror is spot on. Heads up to any movie producers out there, I think it’d make one awesome horror movie, so please get on that.

Five Bookworms = I loved it!

Waiting on Wednesday: THIS IS NOT A TEST by Courtney Summers

“Waiting On” Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

This Is Not a Test

By Courtney Summers

Publication Date: June 19, 2012

From Goodreads: 

It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self. To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live. But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside. When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

I love the cover, and it sounds like such a great book.

What's your "waiting on" pick?