Honestly because of all the views, it was hard to get the gist of the story until the later quarter of the book. Which means that I couldn’t really get into it, and I wish I could have! I wasn’t as immersed as I could have been if there were less points of views. While I was reading The Rules though, with all of the differing views, the whole story feels really messy. The plot was well planned out, now that I’ve finished the book. Sometimes I didn’t even know that the points of view changed so I had to reread a lot of parts. That’s it! How fast the character’s change is exactly like whip lash. The ways the views change is literally like stop and going really fast in a car. I couldn’t really get into the novel, as to the differing views and how quickly the views change. I put that question mark there because I don’t even know how many views there actually are. The main theme to this novel is revenge, and we have -what feels like to me- a million points of view when we only actually have 6-10(?) views.

Sure, the book moves quickly, but there isn’t a sense of character to the book. Other than that, when I started reading the book I was hugely let down. The first being the cover and the ominous sentence on the front: “come out, come out… you won’t get too far.” And the rest of the synopsis. There are few things going for this book. And when the trademark scavenger hunt begins, Robin must go against every rule she’s lived by to survive.‘ Junior Robin Brisset has no idea what she’s in for when she accepts an invitation to one of Callabrese High’s most exclusive parties. It’s Saw meets I Know What You Did Last Summer. No one is safe and everyone is a suspect. ‘ Narrated by alternating unreliable narrators, this dark thriller will have readers on the edge of their seats.

Nancy holder and debbie viguie