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People Like Us
People Like Us | Dana Mele
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A sharp psychological thriller that's just right for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and Pretty Little Liars--this story will seduce, mislead, and finally, betray you. Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make...not something that happened. Debut author Dana Mele has written a taut, sophisticated suspense novel that readers will tear through and not stop talking about.
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chlolovesbooks
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4/5

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Kristy_K
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This was addicting in the way teen shows on tv can be! I found it hard to put down. Tonally, this reminds me of Dangerous Girls and the few episodes of Pretty Little Liars that I‘ve seen.

After a girl‘s body is found in the lake, Kay gets an email from the dead girl w/ a program set on exposing her friends & her if she doesn‘t play by the rules. Kay begins to unravel & try to prove she didn‘t kill the girl before it‘s too late.

#14books14weeks

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Clwojick
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I‘ll need to do another coat on the red in the morning, but I‘m happy with it for the most part! I can‘t wait for my Clue Party next weekend ❤️

I also finished another audiobook for #TeamSlaughter, and enjoyed it well enough. Certainly not my favourite of the week, but it was a solid 3 stars.

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Clwojick
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Headphones are in while I get cracking on my Clue party wall art. 🎨#TeamSlaughter

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Clwojick
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Next up for #Teamslaughter! I‘m trying my best to keep up with my holds as they come pouring in! I received 6 in one day! 😅😳

aperfectmjk 😲 I just had another hold become available today myself... six in one day though, yikes! I wish my job allowed me time to listen at work, but I'm constantly working with clients, so it's just not possible. I listen during lunch though... when my co-workers don't interrupt me. 3y
Clwojick @aperfectmjk It definitely depends on which shift I‘m working. My overnights are the best for audiobooks, since I‘m the only one in my whole half of the hospital. I do get a lot of interrupting phone calls, but sometimes there‘s an hour long stretch with no one bugging me. Just me, my audiobooks, and a whole lot of clinics and paperwork! 🤩 3y
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BeeMagical
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Book 99🎧
I‘m truly a sucker for a YA Thriller😂 Really enjoyed this one as there was a lot of drama and I did not see THAT confession happening at all!😮

Revenge is a dish best served cold… what has poor Kay done? 🥶❄️

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Rachiiebookdragon
People Like Us | Dana Mele
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A great thrilling book 😊 4.5/5 Read for a prompt for the #PopSugarReadingChallenge2021.

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Victoria6
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Book #49: All girls boarding school where everyone is queer and some people get murdered!

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AsYouWish
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Oh my stars!!!!! I loved this book so much!!! So many twists and turns (even in the last couple pages). This book reminds me of Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars with a bit of Riverdale thrown in. It was beyond amazing and I highly recommend it!!! I can not praise this book enough!!! The only complaint I have is there are spelling and grammatical errors, but those are small things.

💻💻💻💻💻

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JenlovesJT47
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Mehso-so

While this was compelling in the sense that I needed to finish it and read it pretty quickly because I had to know what happened, imo there were a lot of plot holes. I think the intended YA audience will enjoy it. Not great, not terrible. 3⭐️

#suspense
#mystery
#YA

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OriginalCyn620
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Quick read and a good YA mystery. Nice twist at the end too!
#popsugar2020 - a book that has the same title as a movie or TV show but is unrelated to it

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cjbooklover
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I just finished this book and enjoyed it. Has anyone else read it because I need to talk spoilers! I am very shocked and a little confused about the ending.

BookDragonNotWorm I read it about a year ago. 5y
cjbooklover Did she commit suicide? 5y
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cjbooklover
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I am halfway through!! I got 2 inter library loans and I thought this would be the slower of the 2, I was wrong. I am hoping to finish this weekend!!

jenreads7 🎉🎉🎉 5y
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BookDragonNotWorm
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Standard YA book, slightly too predictable and erring towards being too trendy, but it held my attention and I enjoyed it. Guilty beach read.

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ashley_o13
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Why do the good parts always come up after I say just one more chapter😩🤓📖

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ashley_o13
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Reading while at work 🥰📖🤓🔬

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BeansPage
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BarbaraTheBibliophage Word. (Pun intended!) 6y
sammisho My husband is the first, me the second 6y
5280reader @sammisho I can definitely relate! 6y
PSreads73 I enjoy both. I lean slightly toward books right now but it changes weekly. (edited) 6y
BookBabe 😂🙌🏻 6y
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That-Bookish-Hiker
People Like Us | Dana Mele
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After finishing the tagged book and updating goodreads this popes up! How festive is the star confetti?!

Just cause I‘ve reached my doesn‘t mean I‘m done reading. 🤓

Alfoster Wowie! You go girl!👏👏👏 6y
TheWordJar That‘s amazing! Awesome year! 6y
britt_brooke Amazing!! 🙌🏻🙌🏻 6y
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Lovesbooks87 Yay! Congrats! 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚 6y
JoRead Holy cow! 300! Quite an accomplishment. Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 6y
Megabooks Wow!! 😲😲 Congratulations!! 🎉🍾📚 6y
thebookishtype15 Awesome!! Congratulations !!! 6y
Jas16 🙌🏽 6y
JoScho 🎉💜🎉💜🎉 6y
ErikasMindfulShelf 👏👏🎉🎉 6y
Skygoddess1 Wow! Congrats, that‘s awesome! 6y
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That-Bookish-Hiker
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I really enjoyed this YA suspense novel that follows a group of girls and the secrets they keep. I did figure out who was responsible and thought that was pretty obvious but that didn‘t take away from the story because I was waiting to see when the heroine would catch onto what the reader already knew.

Thanks for the book @hermyknee

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

hermyknee I‘m so glad you liked it! Oh, I sent you a post card today 🥰 6y
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IndoorDame
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This is a YA murder mystery drama set at a prestigious all girls prep school somewhere in New England. I almost bailed around 40 pages in because I kept getting annoyed that the main character didn‘t talk to her friends/authority figures when she clearly should have. Eventually I got sucked in, and it was a quick read, but nothing really stood out for me about this book.

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That-Bookish-Hiker
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Liz you have seriously the best! Thank you for sending me a little bit of Texas with the socks. I love them. I love everything. 😭

@hermyknee
#litsypenpal

hermyknee I‘m so glad you like everything! It was so much fun putting your box together! 6y
That-Bookish-Hiker @hermyknee I‘ll be shipping yours hopefully by Monday. 6y
hermyknee No rush my friend! 💖💖💖 6y
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Sharpeipup
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“Blind Faith is meaningless & doesn‘t last.” #audiobooks #quotes

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KarenUK
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Heathers meets Pretty Little Liars meets Gossip Girl!
It‘s all here in this YA boarding school mystery- Mean girls, manipulation, murder and mayhem.....
Page-turning, ridiculously far fetched, but ultimately fun read! But you gotta be OK with reading about irredeemable characters - these girls are not nice!
Read for #booked2018 challenge #setatschool

Cinfhen Sounds tarty and scandalous!! A perfect treat 😜 6y
Mdargusch Great photo and great review! 6y
KarenUK Thanks @Mdargusch 😊.... Definitely trashy fun... @cinfhen sometimes a little treat is needed! 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Lovely alliterative review! And ✔️ another prompt off the list! 6y
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BookwormAndra
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Mehso-so

It was an enjoyable and quick read, but I didn‘t like the ending very much and I found the scavenger hunt rules confusing.

#augustreads

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BookwormAndra
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#HumpDayPost

1. My cats are always so adorable that I just have to take pictures of them 🐱
2. We have a heat wave, I really enjoy the warmth and the fact that I could go swimming every day 🌞🌞🌞
3. Dairy!!
4. 😯🙄🤷‍♀️
5. Fortunately I haven‘t

#catsoflitsy

RaimeyGallant Welcome! 6y
LauraBeth Awww - your cats ARE adorable! Welcome to Litsy! 6y
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KarenUK
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#AugustTBR
The Curious incident.... & The Fishermen are for IRL bookclubs...
The rest are for either #POP18 or #booked2018 challenges...
Should be a good month! 👍😊📚💕

BookishMe An American Marriage left me in daze! 6y
BookwormAndra I just bought People Like Us and I really hope to read it in August too 😊 6y
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Reita325
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Mean girls in school has been done better.

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AsYouWish
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@TheFunkyBookworm Thank you so much for doing this giveaway!!! I would love to read People Like Us by Dana Mele because I was/am a huge fan of Pretty Little Liars and I love books that are centered around a mystery where in someway or another everyone is tied into the events that lead up to a murder or disappearance. It keeps me guessing and I love that!! #YAWednesday

TheFunkyBookworm Sigh- and now you‘ve given me another one to add to my TBR as well 😂 You have 2 entries into the drawing since you reposted yesterday! Good luck! 🍀💜 6y
AsYouWish @TheFunkyBookworm YAY!!! Thank you again!!! 6y
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SassenachTheBookWizard
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I'm not a big fan of murder mysteries but I liked this one! Lots of Pretty Little Liars vibes! I figured out the killer about 3/4 of the way through. The conclusion really blew me away though--beautifully written and LGBTQ+ rep!

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SassenachTheBookWizard
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Squeezing one more book in this month!

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Nitpickyabouttrains
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A good mystery ya. I like a solid murder mystery with teen mean girls.

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Johanna414
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It‘s regents week in NYS, so I‘m spending all my time sitting in random classrooms with random students while they take tests. During the Algebra test, I finished People Like Us and started Reign of the Fallen.

Despite the fact that none of the characters were good people and they all just did really cruel things to each other, I got totally sucked in. I did guess how it was going to end, but I enjoyed the process to get there.

Wife Anne 6y
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Johanna414
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It‘s 11:30pm and I should be asleep, but the hubby just called to say he‘s headed home from work early and stopped at the store to get me cookies. I want cookies 🍪🍪🍪🍪

Wife ❤️ #HusbandsOfLitsy !🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪🍪 6y
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Johanna414
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Some morning snuggles with my book, my little guy and his baby doll

Slajaunie He is a cutie! Mine won‘t snuggle with me anymore. I have to harass him just to give him a kiss. ❤️ 6y
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Johanna414
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Next up is one of these, although I‘m too tired to decide which one right now... both came in from the library today.

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Psychobabble
People Like Us | Dana Mele
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I‘d heard quite a few people talk about this book and it didn‘t live up to the hype for me. I‘m thinking that maybe this high-school teenage-drama-mystery style just isn‘t for me. I didn‘t really care about any of the characters so good thing this was a fast read. I did appreciate the final twist.

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Reita325
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Mehso-so

Another mean girls at elite school is readable but unmemorable.

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Kalynrebecca
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Quick and fun read

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IheartYA
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Bailedbailed

I wanted something light and easy to read but this is, like, super shallow with vapid characters and the horrendously amateur writing style makes me, like, want to throw up or something.
I put the book down just now on the chair next me but it slid off. I'm not picking it up; it's staying on the floor where it belongs.

Bostonmomx2 Soooooo.....you didn‘t like it? 😜 7y
Susanita 😆 7y
Mdargusch 😂😂😂 7y
Zelma 😆👏 7y
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SheReads3
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A bit overzealous at the library today...

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Kristy_K
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Retail therapy at its finest. Nothing like a big stack of books after a long book buying ban and a crazy first few months of the year.

#bookhaul #tbr #blameitonlitsy

Eyelit Interesting picks! Jealous 😁 7y
MayJasper Happy for you 😊 7y
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The_Heeler_Booklife
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Such a fast and addicting read. I enjoyed every second of the book, the drama, and who done it aspect. I did guess midway who was the killer, but it still didn‘t take away anything from the book for me.
Rating: 5/5 Stars. Kay is a popular girl at a boarding school with a past. When she and her friends discover a body she is blackmailed and framed for murder. Who can she trust? Who did it?
#bookstagram #bibliophile #thriller #ya #litsy #littens

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TheLibrarian
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#bookhaul from B&N! I did pretty good for being left unattended.

Rachbb3 Nice haul! 7y
Christine11 I really liked Tangerine - hope you do too! 😊 7y
Burghbookaddict I just put Dread Nation on my TBR! Hope its good! 7y
emilyhaldi Oooohhh good ones!! Tangerine & The Gunners are on my list 👍🏻 7y
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nikkiy_reads
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Just started this one. Hope I enjoy it!

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ambam1987
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Highly recommend this YA thriller- a teen is found dead in the lake outside Bates Academy. This centers around her so-called “friends”, relationships, and betrayal. Think Pretty Little Liars meets Gossip Girl

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janehreads
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5/5. i knew i would like this. but like it this much? i had no idea. this book was so compelling, it really got me out of my slump (that lasted maybe 2 days, haha). i read the majority of it last night and today. i‘m hoping for more books from dana mele.

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guinsgirlreads
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Pretty good YA suspense! I couldn‘t figure out The Who or the why. A group of friends and enemies, all hiding things, all entangled in love triangles, but who has the best motive for murder?

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guinsgirlreads
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YA update: enjoying it! I‘m halfway through already! And quite interested in who is behind the computer 💻 🤔🧐..

RadicalReader @guinsgirlreads I completely agree with you!! The best part of mysteries is solving them 7y
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