This Book Kills: the bestselling new YA thriller of 2023

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Sino que también tienen las excusas más idiotas para sentirse ofendidos y actuar como niños, como si no estuvieran bien cerquita de su adultez ya. This was a very entertaining and well paced murder mystery. Like Agatha Christie for young adult readers.

Jess va preguntando y acosando por ahí a todo el que mira extraño. También va contando sus hipótesis y descubrimientos en voz alta a donde quiera que va, sabiendo que el asesino se encuentra entre los estudiantes y que puede estar escuchando lo que dice. Pero eh, que es ella la que sabe.

A Millie le encanta hacer rabietas donde todo el mundo la vea, a Clem le gusta ir actuando como una tonta sin cerebro, pero de buen corazón, por todas partes. Hugh Van Boren se siente triste y ofendido porque le dijeron Hugh Van Boring, como si el peor de los insultos se tratase. Los chicos son todos simps, incluso los que no tienen razones para ser simps, además de tontos que no pueden pensar por sí mismos o hacer cosas sin ayuda femenina. Los que son adultos y pueden valerse por su cuenta están tirados a desaparecidos, incompetentes o padres a quienes sus hijos odian.

I'll make it clear from the start: I did not kill Hugh Henry Van Boren. I didn't even help. Well, not intentionally. When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary's school, is found dead, the student body is left reeling and wondering who the murderer could be... I’ve just finished reading Daughter of Darkness by Katherine and Elizabeth Corr, which is a YA fantasy – it’s inspired by Greek mythology, and it’s super original. I’d recommend it to readers looking for a fast-paced and twisty read.

Elite boarding school, a secret society and a murder mystery all in one book? YES PLEASE, THANK YOU. The writing in this one is absolutely incredible, the plot was easy to follow, the murderer is easy enough to guess but not too easy that it ruins the fun, the characters were well developed and relatable and overall this book is a really great read.

It also doesn’t help that the school has an anonymous secret club called the Regia Club, where students are asked to pull dangerous pranks on each other. And the adults know this is happening and yet decide to not act upon it, due to reputation. We are instantly introduced to this posh high-school, where Jess feels an instant disadvantage being “the scholarship girl”. We can feel this through her interactions with the other students and teachers.

Millicent Cordelia Calthrope-Newton-Rose, que pensó que era una de mis muñecas de infancia y decidió colocarse el nombre más extraño e innecesariamente largo que encontró. Mi teoría es que mezclaron papelitos en un frasco y quedó como quedó. The concept of This Book Kills is what caught my attention first. A teenager, writing a murder story and inspiring an actual murder? That sounds chilling. There's a really cool tone to This Book Kills. With it's sometimes larger than life, dramatic characters there's an almost light hearted feel to it. It's certainly not comic, this is after all a book about suspicion and murder, but just this sense that it doesn't take itself entirely seriously. It was a little reminiscent of the St Trinian's remakes or Riverdale at times, though definitely not as over the top as that got. I really enjoyed it, and it made a refreshing change to books like the Bayview books by Karen McManus (which I also love, but you want variety, right?) R.F. Kuang, Sue Lynn Tan, Rebecca Ross, Kate Heartfield, N.E. Davenport, Saara El-Arifi, Juno Dawson and Sunyi Dean I didn’t even help. Well, not intentionally.”When Hugh Henry Van Boren, one of the most popular and richest kids in Jess Choudhary’s school, is found dead, the student body is left reeling and wondering who the murderer could be… Jess, a student under strict instructions to keep her record clean or risk losing her scholarship, finds herself at the centre of the investigation when it’s revealed that Hugh died in the exact same way as a character in a short story she wrote.

Pero ya, no me gusta nada más. Y este único punto es tan mínimo o realmente influyente a la trama que ni siquiera da para subirle una estrella a lo que leí… I did guess the murderer quite early on. However, there are so many twists and turns with other discoveries coming up and stuff that it definitely made me rethink multiple times. There were definitely moments where I had sidestepped from my first suspicions, but after about 65%-70% I was sure who had done it. I’m kind of disappointed that it already became pretty obvious after that point due to the author pointing out certain reactions (in conversations, actions, et cetera) of the murderer. Maybe it was intended to be like that, but I would have liked to be on the edge of my seat for just a little longer!I also really liked Summer, fellow Scholarship student and Tommy, Jess’s longtime crush and the deceased Hugh’s best friend. And I admit, given how sweet their interactions were I was wholeheartedly rooting for Jess and Tommy to become more that friends. Infamous criminal tycoon Eli Morrison has just one weakness—his daughter, Penelope. And Penelope has just one wish for her nineteenth birthday—a private concert with Winter Young. When covert ops organization The Panacea Group approaches Winter with this once-in-a-lifetime chance to infiltrate Morrison’s inner circle, Winter must use his fame, cunning, and charisma to pull it off—only he won’t be on his own. At once fun, twisty, and insightful, This Book Kills is a gripping murder mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat. - Adiba Jaigirdar, YA Book Prize winning author of Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating Jess together with a couple other students will investigate and try to figure out who killed Hugh and why before anyone else gets hurt.