About the Book:
An all-day scavenger hunt in the name of eternal small-town glory
With only a week until graduation, there's one last thing Mary and her friends must do together: participate in the Oyster Point High Official Unofficial Senior Week Scavenger Hunt. And Mary is determined to win.
Mary lost her spot at Georgetown to self-professed "it" bully Jake Barbone, and she's not about to lose again. But everyone is racing for the finish line with complicated motives, and the team's all-night adventure becomes all-night drama as shifting alliances, flared tempers, and crushing crushes take over. As the items and points pile up, Mary and her team must reinvent their strategy--and themselves--in order to win.
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The Review:
It was the summary of the book that must have intrigued me. I
don’t know because it was one of the ePubs that I had gotten hold of and never
really got around to reading it. When I re-read the summary, I understood that
me from two years ago must have wanted to read this book because of the theme
of scavenger hunts. You see, we don’t have those in India and it was kind of
intriguing for me.
The way the blurb is written you’d think you’re in for
reading about heartbreaks and betrayals, and a night when nothing is what it
seems. However, three chapters into the book and I could predict exactly what
was going on in every character’s head.
The protagonist doesn’t really warm up to you. She’s
annoying to say the least and makes a big deal about the fact that she’s never
had a boyfriend and she’s still a virgin. You’d think she’s so desperate that
she’d just jump into bed with the first boy who comes along (and predictably
that’s her best friend, Patrick, who has been in love with her since god knows
when).
Her other two best friends, Winter and Dez, are cardboard
cut outs of from the predictable group of friends that any teen movie would
have. Dez is gay and Winter is the pretty girl, who would backstab her best
friend because the guy they both like, likes her more.
I honestly do not regret reading this book. But I wish I had
opened it with lesser expectations. Because while the scavenger hunt serves as
an excellent background for an amazing story, the author does little to take
full advantage what could have been an excellent read!
The good thing about the book is how it is written. I like
the easy flow of the language and how over the course of one night, everything
you seem to have known all your life can change. The other good thing about
this book I felt was the fact that it had a lot of potential, but
unfortunately, it fails to deliver for me.
This is one of those quick, easy reads which you will forget
as soon as you turn the last page. The only reason I remembered this particular story is because I wanted to review it
on my blog. By the way, our protagonist is named Mary, and she’s as annoying as
Diya was. And that’s saying something because I created her!
Rating: 3/5
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