It is a book where everyone has secrets and everyone is doing their best to protect them.
It has such fantastic character dynamics, a lot of which are twisted and toxic. People Like Us is a psychological thriller and a very character driven book. It takes place in a boarding school after a murder has taken place, and Kay is one of the suspects, which is only made worse when she receives an email from the victim, which sends her on a revenge hunt on behalf of the victim. It is often described as Mean Girls but queer and that is a really accurate description.
It is a book on par with Megan Abbott and Abigail Haas. People Like Us is one of those books that stays on your mind long after you have finished it. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make.not something that happened.Debut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that will keep readers guessing until the very end. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation.
But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. So yeah, it's epic."-HelloGiggles"In People Like Us, Dana Mele delivers the Gossip Girl meets Pretty Little Liars young adult novel you've been waiting for."-BustleKay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. "Mean Girls meets Donna Tartt's The Secret History with a little bit of Riverdale mixed in.
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