REVIEW: Easy Prey by Catherine Lo @catherineElo @ACBYA

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Easy Prey

by Catherine Lo

Thanks so much to Amulet Books and Astoria Bookshop for this amazing review copy.

I absolutely love this story of the jock, the nerd and the goth girl. Please put this on your radar.

See my full thoughts below!

Publisher: Amulet Books

Publish Date: October 16, 2018

Hardcover

352 Pages

Standalone

Genres: YA, Mystery, Fiction

Only three students had access to a teacher’s racy photos before they went viral. There’s Mouse, a brainy overachiever so desperate to escape his father and go to MIT that he would do almost anything, legal or not. Then there’s Drew, the star athlete who can get any girl’s number—and private photos—with his charm but has a history of passing those photos around. And finally there’s Jenna, a good girl turned rebel after her own shocking photos made the rounds at school last year, who is still waiting for justice. All three deny leaking the photos, but someone has to take the fall. This edgy whodunit tackles hot-button issues of sexting and gossip and will have readers tearing through the pages to reach the final reveal.

My Review:

We all remember high school. Everyone is put into some kind of category. In this novel, we have the jock, the nerd and the wholesome girl gone goth. Each of them have their own issues and when put together on a school project, they start learning there's more to each of them than meets the eye.

Here's what I love about a smartly done YA novel. Lo takes hot button topics such as sexting, privacy, the blame game and even parental liability into a high school scene where teenagers think there's nothing else in the world but the one that they live in. If I had known that high school really wouldn't have made a difference in my world afterwards, I may have looked at it differently. But hey, it's all part of our learning process, right? The author smartly brings these topics into play and grasps the fine line in how differently gender roles and expectations fall into the blaming process.

I was intrigued from the beginning of the book straight until the end. I wasn't quite expecting that ending, which was a surprise that brought a large smile to my face! We all have our secrets... and secrets have a tendency to come out, whether you like it or not. Be careful what you do and who you do it to and for goodness sakes, LEARN FROM YOUR MISTAKES.

I do think there may be some controversy about the ending as I even questioned certain parts of WHY IF THIS OR THAT? However, rather than reading way too much into it, I'm just going to revel in the ingenious of it all. Well done Lo, well done!

★★★★★