"Five Fiery Stars for this bingeable, edge-of-your-seat, twisty thriller." NATASHA PRESTON, New York Times bestselling author of The Lake "Consider this a must-have thriller." School Library Journal I also write middle-grade fantasy stories, THE GUARDIAN HERD and RIDERS OF THE REALM from HarperCollins Children's Books. Jake learns both him and Tegan were drugged the night they slept together.I am the author of two thrillers, FRIENDS LIKE THESE and LIES LIKE WILDFIRE from Delacorte Press. I received a free copy of FRIENDS LIKE THESE in exchange for my honest review. Note: This post contains affiliate links, which do not cost you anything to use, but which help support this blog. Teens drink alcohol and take drugs at a party. In another scene, a boy slams a girl’s face into a tree accidentally. More than one scene shows or references people fighting. References to domestic violence (happens off-scene). See spoiler section at the bottom of the post. The age of consent in California, where the story takes place, is eighteen, so the girl can be charged with statutory rape. Police intend to press charges on the girl. One scene shows two teens undressing leading up to having sex.Ī seventeen year-old boy and an eighteen year-old girl are caught having sex. On the whole, if you’re looking for a twisty, fast-paced story, FRIENDS LIKE THESE could be a great pick for you.Ĭontent warning for domestic violence, drug and alcohol use, and sexual assault.Įxtreme profanity used fairly frequently. I also thought the decision to explore recovery from sexual assault but from a guy’s perspective was an interesting choice. A lot of things happened that I didn’t expect, and I liked the way the story made me question information I took for granted without really examining it. I liked the twisty-ness of the plot, though. So I felt like his character was deeper and more complex than the girls were. After the night of Tegan’s party, he’s wrestling with the truth that he was assaulted and what that means. He’s recovering from losing his dad, and from his alcoholism. Jake also spent a lot of time wrestling with his feelings about the girls, but he had a lot more going on, I felt like. Or about anything that isn’t Jake that Jessica loved to do or was interested in. I would have liked to know more about Tegan’s tense relationship with her mom. I felt like the obsession with Jake was the majority of what both Tegan and Jessica’s characters were about. One of the things I discovered reading this book is that I don’t enjoy books where the most significant thing about a character is that they love a boy.
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