I put With Malice and The Telling. Those are both YA books that I think probably don't hold up.
With malice (2016)
For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive, compulsive read about a teenage girl who wakes up in a hospital bed and cannot remember the last six weeks of her life, including the accident that killed her best friend--only what if the accident wasn't an accident?
- ISBN:
- 9780544805095
- Length:
- 326 pages
Genres: mystery
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so yeah this book is not one of my least favorite but I just didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to enjoy it
my only problem was the payoff a little bit but I think it's still worth the read because it's really good all the way through it's just the payoff





