Ten by Gretchen McNeil

Publisher- Balzer + Bray
Publication Date- September 18, 2012
Pages- 294

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Three-day weekend. Party at White Rock House on Henry Island.
You do NOT want to miss it.

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?

I've never read Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, but I am always up for a good mystery/thriller. And that's what this was, a very good mystery/thriller.

It started off kind of weird, I didn't like it at first. I kept getting Meg and Minnie confused and I didn't know which one of them was supposed to be the main character, and they were both acting like immature pre-teens, they were not acting like older teenagers. But as the book progressed, I got less confused, and while Minnie still acted immature, we didn't see much of her, and Meg started thinking like an actual person.

There were times when I was yelling at the characters because they were being stupid and doing irrational things, but if they weren't making these decisions, there wouldn't be a book.

I did find this very suspenseful and I had to keep reading. The on;y reason I ever stopped was because I kind of needed to me mentally-present at school the next day, but I was reading through classes all day at school just so I could finish.

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