Hunger by Michael Grant, The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz and Eyes On You by Kate White
This weekend our staff is keeping busy with books about the latter. Be it possessed dystopian teens or death-threatening stalkers, this week's reads are all about the dark side.
Share your thoughts on their choices – and let us know what you're reading.
Zakiya Jamal, Editorial Intern
Her Pick: Hunger: A Gone Novel by Michael Grant
This is the second book in Grant's Gone series and as soon as I finished the first book I was hooked. Hunger is centered on a town where everyone 15 and over has disappeared. There's no way out of the town and many of the children have developed special abilities which has caused a riff between the "freaks" and the "normals."
The drama builds as kids begin to starve and meanwhile something dark and evil begins to affect some of the children. Needless to say, I love this book so far.
Zoe Ruderman, Deputy Style and Beauty Director
Her Pick: Eyes On You by Kate White
I tried to save this book for Fourth of the July weekend (after all, it's the ultimate juicy beach book: a thriller with a smart female main character whose job – and life – is in danger), but I wasn't able to hold off.
The story revolves around a TV host who's killing it in her career, but realizes someone sick and twisted is out to get her. Ever heard of poisoned makeup? I've been devouring Kate White's books since I took a job working for her eight years ago, and I'm tearing through this one especially fast.
Saryn Chorney, Senior Editor
Her Pick: The Dark World by Cara Lynn Shultz
Divergent. Dorothy Must Die. The Fault in Our Stars … It's safe to say I've been on a YA kick lately. Considering that last one left me a blubbering mess, I decided to leave the tissues behind and tackle an action-based novel this time: former PEOPLE editor Cara Shultz's The Dark World.
Shultz's first novel in a planned trilogy finds high-schooler Paige Kelly seemingly talking to herself in the halls. But what her classmates – and even she doesn't quite realize – is that Paige can communicate with the dead (her BFF is a ghost) and open portals to another dimension, The Dark World. Aided by the new cute demon slayer boy in school our heroine must fight for her life. Think: My So-Called Life meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This page turner is funny and frightening.
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