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alternate cover edition for ISBN 0544416694 What do you really need One by one, the teens in Nottawa, Wisconsin, join the newest, hottest networking site and answer one question What do you need A new iPhone Backstage passes to a concert In exchange for a seemingly minor task, the NEED site will fulfill your request Everyone is doing it So why shouldn t you Kaylee Dunham knows what she needs a kidney for her sick brother She doesn t believe a social networking site can help, but it couldn t hurt to try.Or could it After making her request, Kaylee starts to realize the price that will have to be paid for her need to be met The demands the site makes on users in exchange for their desires are escalating, and so is the body count Will Kaylee be able to unravel the mystery of who created the NEED network before it destroys them all Free Read Books Need author Joelle Charbonneau – kino-fada.fr Sometimes, there is such a thing as too many narrators I give you the Table of Contents of this book.The words chilling and thriller is used in the blurb to sell this book They re misleading This book was silly.If anything, this book only serves to highlight how stupid teenagers are In life, nothing comes without a price Books like The Monkey s Paw demonstrates it perfectly well Things that sound too good to be true probably are Which is why it s just seriously stupid and this book Sometimes, there is such a thing as too many narrators I give you the Table of Contents of this book.The wo...At first glance, NEED by Joelle Charbonneau sounds like the fricking bomb Its premise speaks of the following 1 A small town full of selfish high schoolers 2 A social media tool that promises to fulfill your every need if you do certain conditions 3 A heroine who has a brother who desperately needs a kidney transplant.This was basically me But unfortunately, while I do agree that this was a fast paced novel, it wasn t something that left a huge impact in me.Let s talk about multiple, At first glance, NEED by Joelle Charbonneau sounds like the fricking bomb Its premise speaks of the following 1 A small town full of selfish high schoolers 2 A social media tool that promises to fulfill your every need if you do certain conditions 3 A heroine who has a brother who desperately needs a kidney transplant.This was basically me But unfortunately, while I do agree that this was a fast paced novel, it wasn t something that left a huge impact in me.Let s talk about multiple, emotionless, deadpan like POVs.For a premise like this, I do understand the need of having multiple POVs, especially since you have a tempting social media tool that promises to fulfill even your most extravagant wishes for a price It s something that affects the people on a very large scale, and we won t be able to witness and feel its magnitude if we don t get to see it from the eyes ...Need is one of those books that makes me acutely aware of the fact that I m a very nearly thirty year old woman reading a book written for people half my age This puts me in an awkward position maybe one that I m inthan I realize, but with Need, I really feel it because while I may find Need dumb, illogical, patronizing, and actually kind of insulting to the demographic it s targeted at, I have no goddamn idea how actual teenagers might react to it.So that s where I m at with this Need is one of those books that makes me acutely aware of the fact that I m a very nearly thirty year old woman reading a book written for people half my age This puts me in an awkward position maybe one that I m inthan I realize, but with Need, I really feel it because while I may find Need dumb, illogical, patronizing, and actually kind of insulting to the demographic it s targeted at, I have no goddamn idea how actual teenagers might react to it.So that s where I m at with this review Maybe this book has shit teenagers need to hear Maybe the incredibly heavy handed soapboxing is necessary and good and I mean, I can t bag on the thing for being anti cyber bullying, that s a worthy cause But as somebody the book was admittedly not written for, and assuming I m also speaking, at least in part, to other people the book was not written for, Need was kinda crap.The premise is pretty great though, and that s what made me grab Need as the first book of my ...The single biggest existential threat that s out there, I think, is cyberMichael Mullen,a retired United States Navy admiral Joelle Charbonneau, an American author, pens her latest YA thriller, Need, that is about a bunch of high school teenagers falling prey to the world of cyber crime a website which would fulfill their w...Initial reaction From reading two books by Joelle Charbonneau, I m wondering if she d be better off writing comedic horror thriller than actual suspense thriller, because I found it difficult to take NEED seriously after a time It had some decent suspenseful moments in the beginning and other parts, but mostly it was just the kind of horror you d laugh about for better and worse.Full review Okay, full disclosure time I wasn t a big fan of Joelle Charbonneau s The Testing it started Initial reaction From reading two books by Joelle Charbonneau, I m wondering if she d be better off writing comedic horror thriller than actual suspense thriller, because I found it difficult to take NEED seriously after a time It had some decent suspenseful moments in the beginning and other parts, but mostly it was just the kind of horror you d l...This was one of those books where I read the first few chapters and was like well, I see exactly where this is going I mean, take a mysterious website that grants people s wishes anonymously and add in a character with a brother who needs a kidney and it doesn t take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen While I was essentially right, the story did go off a lot of other directions A lot There were at least eight or nine POV characters, which for me is about six or seven too This was one of those books where I read the first few chapters and was like well, I see exactly where this is going I mean, take a mysterious website that grants people s wishes anonymously and add in a character with a brother who needs a kidney and it doesn t take a rocket scientist to figure out what will happen While I was essentially right, the story did go off a lot of other directions A lot There were at least eight or nine POV characters, which for me is about six or seven too many All of them had needs they wanted fulfilled, and most of these needs when compared to the kidney were only things that a sixteen year old could consider a desperate necessity The story did something interesting, which was that it required the wishers to do shady stuff in exchange for getting their own wishes fulfilled But then, in my opinion, the book didn t take this far enough view spoiler I mean, was I the only person who thought that whoever was behi...Kaylee Dunham only needs and wants one thing in life, for her brother to get the kidney he needs to survive Kaylee was willing to donate herself but unfortunately she just wasn t a match so she s done everything she can to bring awareness to her brother s health problems and try to find a donor When her friend shows Kaylee a new social networking site aimed at the students from her high school that claims to grant users what they need Kaylee can t help but become curious After signing up for Kaylee Dunham only needs and wants one thing in life, for her brother to get the kidney he needs to survive Kaylee was willing to donate herself but unfortunately she just wasn t a match so she s done everything she can to bring awareness to her brother s health problems and try to find a donor When her friend shows Kaylee a new social networking site aimed at the students from her high school that claims to grant users what they need Kaylee can t help but become curious After signing up for NEED Kaylee makes the request that he brother would get the kidney he desperately needs but soon things take an unfortunate turn for the users of the site and it s obvious that sometimes things a...A solid 4.5 starsNEED is a novel that is based on this new social media site entitled, NEED It s a site that allows people to request anything that they NEED However, access to this site is only by invitation only Anything at all can be asked and your request will be fulfilled only if you accomplish a certain task that will be assigned by the site itself Doesn t this book already sound so interesting That s exactly why I picked it up and I have no regrets in reading this at all.NEED is a A solid 4.5 starsNEED is a novel that is based on this new social media site entitled, NEED It s a site that allows people to request anything that they NEED However, access to this site is only by invitation only Anything at all can be asked and your request will be fulfilled only if you accomplish a certain task that will be assigned by the site itself Doesn t this book already sound so interesting That s exactly why I picked it up and I have no regrets in reading this at all.NEED is a mystery thriller YA book that is engaging right from the beginning It s a fast pace...I loved the premise of this book, but the execution fell a bit flat First off, there were a ton of POVs Yes, it makes sense to show what the other kids participating in NEED were doing, but there wasn t any sort of continuity to it And a lot of the voices sounded the same As for the MC, I didn t really care for her, so I didn t care about her journey or what happened to her The bad guy reveal and explanation weren t as awesome as I was expecting After the lengthy build up, it left a lot to ...It takes quite a bit to scare me as far as books are concerned, but Need had me wishing I had left the lights on when I went to bed It s a solid new book from the author of the popular Testing series that fans of thrillers or the author will not want to miss.The story is told through the first person with Kaylee and through the third person using various students who are members of the new social networking site Need Need promises to deliver what those who make requests need though it s It takes quite a bit to scare me as far as books are concerned, but Need had me wishing I had left the lights on when I went to bed It s a solid new book from the author of the popular Testing series that fans of thrillers or the author will not want to miss.The story is told through the first person with Kaylee and through the third person using various students who are members of the new social networking site Need Need promises to deliver what those who make requests need though it s really wants , but at a price Mixing the points of view makes for a great mystery that gives the readers enough clues to keep it interesting, but not so many that it s obvious what is going on.All of the characters are compelling, even those with only a few pages in total devoted to them The plot makes for a page turner and never slows down It also brings up many serious issues about social networking and human nature, both good and bad In fact, aside from a few events that seem a bit of a stret...

Need
  • English
  • 02 July 2019
  • Hardcover
  • 335 pages
  • Joelle Charbonneau
  • Need