Ariel is throwing the party of the season. Her father is one
of the richest men in the country, and the party is going to last all weekend
and include famed rock star Hudson Winters in a private concert. Everyone from
school is excited, except for Sera. Sera wouldn’t even be going if her father
wasn’t making her attend the birthday party of her ex-best friend.
It has been more than nine months since Ariel returned from
Mexico, nine months since she was almost raped, and nine months since Sera told
the school councilor and her father what almost happened to Ariel.
Ariel was
furious, she had trusted Sera to keep her secret, and after months of
counseling and psychiatric watch for attempted suicide Ariel took her anger out
on Sera, turning the whole school against her, casting her out. After many
failed attempts to reconcile, Sera has accepted her new role as the social
pariah.
Everything
changes at Ariel’s birthday party. During Hudson Winter’s show shots are fired,
killing Ariel’s father and one of her classmates. The scene erupts in chaos,
during which Ariel sneaks into her house’s secret rooms that were built into
the walls during the Underground Railroad. The only person who knows about the
secret rooms is Sera, but Sera is keeping her mouth shut.
Listening
to the men keeping them hostage, Sera and Hunter over hear that there is a
conspiracy to take Ariel’s family fortune, and after killing Ariel’s father and
uncle, she is the only liability left, they need to find her and kill her
before escaping. Sera and Ariel have to put their differences aside to outsmart
the men plotting against Ariel’s family. But not only do they have to work
together, they also have to find out who the mastermind behind all this is, and
it is an answer they don’t want.
I liked
this book, it was a fun quick read that actually kept me interested. I didn’t see
some of the plot twist coming, and I liked watching the friendship between Sera
and Ariel slowly come around and get fixed. I would recommend this book mainly
to young teens, or people who enjoy Margaret Peterson Haddix books, young adult
mystery thrillers, and people who like the Spellbound and Angel Sight series.
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