All These Beautiful Strangers

Posted on 08 August 2018 by Elizabeth Klehfoth

In the last day of summer, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Allister Calloway, vanished from the family s lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions.Years later, seventeen year old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood, the prestigious New Englandschool she attends Charlie quickly becomes friends with Knollwood s it crowd.Charlie has also been tapped by the A s the school s elite secret society well known for terrorizing the faculty, administration, and their enemies To become a member of the A s, Charlie must play The Game, a semester long, diabolical high stakes scavenger hunt that will jeopardize her friendships, her reputation, even her place at Knollwood.As the dark events of past and present converge, Charlie begins to fear that she may not survive the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life. Free Read [ All These Beautiful Strangers ] author [ Elizabeth Klehfoth ] – kino-fada.fr All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth is a young adult mystery that is told from multiple points of view and several timelines Reading this one I had the thought that the author successfully made a book stew, she managed to combine a couple of mysteries and some drama into an interesting story.First we have seventeen year old Charlie Calloway who is a junior at the prestigious Knollwood and looking forward to joining Knollwood s secret elite society, the As Charlie is ready to pu All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth is a young adult mystery that is told from multiple points of view and several timelines Reading this one I had the thought that the author successfully made a book stew, she managed to combine a couple of mysteries and some drama into an interesting story.First we have seventeen year old Charlie Calloway who is a junior at the prestigious Knollwood and looking forward to joining Knollwood s secret elite society, the As Charlie is ready to put her past behind her and step out of the shadow of her family name so when invited to join the high stakes scavenger hunt that begins the initiation into the As Charlie is excited to join the in crowd.Ten years before when Charlie was seven her mother had gone missing and even a decade later th... WELL THAT WAS UTTERLY AND IRREVOCABLY DISAPPOINTING.Let me just start off that if you like Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and the dramatic flair for the points of being hella extra.then look no further folks because we got here the same run of the mill mediocre and somewhat boring mystery drama tale of a pretentious high school student uncovering the buried secrets of the past, all the while getting caught up in a tangle wood of lies and deceit in the present.Doesn t that sound lik WELL THAT WAS UTTERLY AND IRREVOCABLY DISAPPOINTING.Let me just start off that if you like Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars, and the dramatic flair for the points of being hella extra.then look no further folks because we got here the same run of the mill mediocre and somewhat boring mystery drama tale of a pretentious high school student uncovering the buried secrets of the past, all the while getting caught up in a tangle wood of lies and deceit in the present.Doesn t that sound like a juicy fishhook of a TV show movie you might find somewhere like on the CW or Lifetime Because literally hellllll nooooo I m over it already.So I legit thought this book was Adult but it wasn t it s YA And if y all know me chuckle, chuckle I LITERALLY DO NOT LIKE YA MYSTERY THRILLERS Well, most of the time anyways And thriller Um nonexistent Maybe that s just on me and its just marketed as mystery suspense Well whatever because that wasn t even the fault I had with the book it was with the main character hersel...I received a free copy of All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth from Goodreads for my honest review Wonderful read, keeps you on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next Charlie Calloway has it all, a wonderful family, fantastic friends, money Charlie finds out about a secret society at her school and is determined to get in it Little does she know that the secrets are deeper than she can imagine Charlie always wanted to know about her mother...Charlie Calloway is a 17 year old with everything She s heir to a family fortune and attends an elite private school, Knollwood Augustus Prep What s , she s just been invited to join Knollwood s most exclusive club, a secretive group known as the A s Yes, that s how it s punctuated in the book and yes, that bloody apostrophe took a few minutes off my life every time I had to look at it But Charlie is haunted by the disappearance, and possibly death, of her mother Grace ten years earlie Charlie Calloway is a 17 year old with everything She s heir to a family fortune and attends an elite private school, Knollwood Augustus Prep What s , she s just been invited to join Knollwood s most exclusive club, a secretive group known as the A s Yes, that s how it s punctuated in the book and yes, that bloody apostrophe took a few minutes off my life every time I had to look at it But Charlie is haunted by the disappearance, and possibly death, of her mother Grace ten years earlier All These Beautiful Strangers is the story of her quest to discover what really happened to Grace...DNF 12% Nothing particularly bad about this, but it feels like a book trying to imitate successful thrillers and only half succeeding It feels distinctively less sophisticated than the adult thrillers I ve read recently, but since this is a debut, I thi...Originally posted on A Frolic Through Fiction Rated 3.5 5 starsDon t let the rainbow cover deceive you this book is far from the happy go lucky story you might expect Following Charlie Calloway in her Junior year at high school, things gradually begin to turn serious as she s offered the chance to join secret though dangerous exclusive society, dubbing her as one of the elite When things turn darker and a family secret is unexpectedly involved, the mystery needs to unravel for Charlie to Originally posted on A Frolic Through Fiction Rated 3.5 5 starsDon t let the rainbow cover deceive you this book is far from the happy go lucky story you might expect Following Charlie Calloway in her Junior year at high school, things gradually begin to turn serious as she s offered the chance to join secret though dangerous exclusive society, dubbing her as one of the elite When things turn darker and a family secret is unexpectedly involved, the mystery needs to unravel for Charlie to know where she stands.What caught me straight away was how this isn t just Charlie s story The perspectives switch between her and her parents, something I ve not seen done be...Penguin came through and sent me a beautiful ARC for this in the mail I don t even read mystery that much but I m so excited for this Helps that the book is absolutely GORGEOUSReview to come.Oh well this was interestingA dark, twisting and very intriguing YA mystery story that reminded me of The Secret History and Cruel Intentions It s creepy and weird and all of the characters are awful which just makes it all thecompellin...

08 August 2018

Elizabeth Klehfoth