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    Truth or Dare

    Written by Jacqueline Green

    Narrated by Katie Koster

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    When a simple round of truth or dare spins out of control, three girls find it's no longer a party game – it's do or die.

    It all started on a whim: The game was a way for Tenley Reed to reclaim her popularity, a chance for perfect Caitlin "Angel" Thomas to prove she's more than her Harvard application. Loner Sydney Morgan wasn't even there; she was hiding behind her camera, as usual. But when all three start receiving mysterious dares long after the party has ended, they're forced to play along – or risk exposing their darkest secrets.

    How far will Tenley, Caitlin, and Sydney go to keep the truth from surfacing? And who's behind this twisted game? Set against the backdrop of Echo Bay, an isolated beach town haunted by misfortune, Truth or Dare is a highly charged debut that will keep listeners in suspense from beginning to end.

    A Hachette Audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 14, 2013
    ISBN9781619696846
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    • 2/5
      Review courtesy of Dark Faerie TalesQuick & Dirty: Truth or Dare unlike you have ever played before.Opening Sentence: The water was everywhere.The Review:My first impression of this ARC was pure frustration. This was because the prologue begins in a very cursive font to the point that it looked like weird swirls linked together. Try as I might, I just COULD NOT READ IT and we all know that the first sentence is sooo important! First I tried reading on my laptop and then on my kindle, which was a little better. I could just make out a couple of the words but it was a headache trying to decipher the rest of the sentence. I hoped that this was a one-off but unfortunately, the first line of each chapter was written in the same irksome font! I gave up even trying to make out the first line so I skipped it when starting each chapter. I assume the use of differing fonts was to make the writing different and appealing but I hope they realised this wasn’t a success and apply a user-friendly font in the final version!I’m sure we’ve all played truth or dare at some point, but in this book the game is far more menacing and borders on blackmail. The mysterious darer knows everyone’s secrets and threatens to expose them if they don’t play along. The game is targeted at three girls: Caitlin, Tenley and Sydney and each chapter is told from the POV of one of these girls.I like how the story flowed together in an almost domino effect. One seemingly unrelated dare affected someone else’s truth and so on. The girls’ histories are intertwined without their knowledge, but the darer knows all. It reminded me of ‘A’ from Pretty Little Liars because A also knew everyone’s secrets, stalked the girls and threatened to reveal them. It was fun trying to guess who the darer was and I suspected practically everyone because of the misleading clues.Sydney looked over at Calum, who had his face screwed up as if he’d just eaten something rotten. “You ready?”“About as ready as a nuclear detonator without uranium,” Calum sighed. “But don’t worry,” he added when Sydney shot him a flabbergasted look. “That’s never stopped me before.”From the three, Tenley’s character was the least impressive; she’s a self-obsessed mean girl that can never let go of being Queen Bee. Her loyalty to Cait was sweet but that was literally her only redeeming quality. She’s horrible to the less-popular students, attempts to flirt her way into everything and what annoyed me most was that she tends to succeed!Cait’s kidnapping intrigued me, especially her flashbacks. The toy train she kept remembering led me to believe that Joey Bakersfield had something to do with it but I’m sure the kidnapper’s identity will be explored further in the next book. It would have been helpful if the author had expanded on how the kidnapping took place and her subsequent discovery. Cait was too meek for my liking, especially since she’s running for student body president. Her popularity stemmed from her friends rather than any personal attributes as she was constantly hiding in either Tenley or Emmerson’s shadow.My favourite character was Sydney, particularly because she’s dragged into this ‘game’ targeting the rich, popular girls, when she’s the complete opposite. Sydney is a photography geek and it was good to see someone ‘normal’ playing the game, if you can call it playing. She’s like the Dan Humphrey from Gossip Girl; someone who doesn’t fit in but ends up being pushed into the elite circle and soon realises that even the most popular girls have their secrets.“What did you do, Calum? Break into an aquarium?”“No, Sydney,” Calum said gravely. “I had a battle with the ocean.”Sydney eyed his bedraggled half-naked form. “I’m guesing the ocean won?”“I’d call it more fo a tie,” Calum said, hopping from foot to foot to keep warm. “The ocean got my clothes, but I got-““Pneumonia?” Sydney supplied.Calum narrowed his eyes at her. “I was going to say my pride.”“Ah. Of course.”I was teetering on a score of 2.5 out of 5 until the ending, which reduced the overall rating to 2 stars. Without giving too much away, I felt the ending was rushed, messy and unexpected. There were a few gaps that could have been better explained, especially the history of the darer. It’s unfortunate that the poor cliff-hanger ending has lowered any chances of continuing this series…Notable Scene:There was no way she was going through with the dare but she would go to the docks at midnight. She’d got and she’d find out who this person was, and then she’d put them in their place.Because there was one truth she did want everyone to know: when it came to dares, Tenley Reed was the master.FTC Advisory: Poppy/Hachette Book Group provided me with a copy of Truth or Dare. No goody bags, sponsorships, “material connections,” or bribes were exchanged for my review.
    • 1/5
      I can't help but think how so much of the story was brought on by stupidity. These girls allowed themselves to get sucked into a game of truth or dare, even though they had the power to stop it right from the beginning. Caitlin and Syndey, I can understand why they don't want their secret revealed. But Tenley? Compared to the other two, her problems were so small.

      I just can't. The book was too long, the scenarios were stupid, but the ending was good.
    • 4/5
      A young adult mystery very much in the vein of the first Pretty Little Liars books (and as good as those first in the PLL series were), Truth or Dare cleverly plays on the game referenced in its title, as three teenage girls receive mysterious notes instructing them to complete escalating dares or face dire consequences. The end sets this up to be a suspenseful and gripping series, and I can't wait to read the second book (coming out next month). I only hope that this series stays at its peak, and doesn't go downhill like Pretty Little Liars did so drastically.
    • 4/5
      Truth or Dare was a suspenseful, addicting read, although it may not be for everyone. I was rushing through the pages to finish. And then wished for the second book, immediately. The one word I think describes this read most is darkly "fun" though. Truth or Dare was just the break I needed.

      I have heard that Truth or Dare is often compared to Pretty Little Liars. Admitedly, I have not read the series, but I believe they both have an awesome amount of drama and mystery. Speaking of the mystery aspects, I loved all the suspense built on the da
      res! And then that cliff hanger... Ugh!

      The characters were nothing short of amazing. They felt realistic and were so vibrant, they jumped right into my head fully formed. I also loved how throughout the book the author added layers of secrets and personality traits to the character... the character growth was pretty awesome!

      Another thing I liked about Truth or Dare is how well we get to know the secondary characters. Parents, brothers, friends, enemies, teacher... I remember all their personalities and some even played crucial roles! I applaud the author on how she incorporated so many original characters into the story, and none of them were useless or unnecessary!

      The pacing of the book was great. I never felt like the book was moving to slowly. I couldn't it down during the plane ride and car ride (I read it on vacation). Also, I loved that this was a thick book. I needed a nice long read with enough pages to provide character development and a good mystery!

      Overall, this comes highly recommended to lovers of YA Drama and Suspense/Mystery. Oh, and I just have to mention that gorgeous cover! It is so suspenseful with a great color scheme... warning that the book is a wild, addictive roller coaster ride in Echo Bay!


      4/5 stars

      *I received this book via the first reads program on Goodreads. This is a 100% honest review*
    • 3/5
      A complete PLL rip-off, but still a good read. Arguably "darker" secrets than the ones in PLL, and with some unexpected serious real life consequences for our leads. Predictable, especially the final pages, but likable. I'm interested in seeing where it goes.
    • 3/5
      Echo Bay is a picture-perfect oceanside town with the expected batch of annual summer tourists and year-round privileged white teens. But it has an ominous claim to fame: several times in past Fall Festivals, a beautiful young woman mysteriously dies out in the water by Phantom Rock.Little of this matters, however, with Tenley Reed’s arrival back in town. Wanting to claim her old life as the most popular and most desired girl in her grade, she throws one of her infamous house parties, complete with one of the Truth or Dare games for which she’s known. But this time, an unknown darer continues the game long past it’s time to end it. Three girls start receiving dares that they must follow through for fear of the darer exposing their deepest secrets: Tenley; her best friend Caitlin, the perfect All-American with the Harvard dream; and Sydney, the scholarship student. And for reasons they don’t know, the darer is not going to stop until they are all dead…I was hoping, when I picked this book up, that it would defy my expectations. With a synopsis that sounded like it had been lifted directly from a rejected Pretty Little Liars installment, I’ll admit that my expectations weren’t high. And while I did finish the book (which says something, I suppose, considering how I’m not afraid to DNF a book that I don’t have a chance of loving), I kind of wish that, well, I hadn’t.Throughout the whole book, I kept on shaking my head and saying to myself, “What’s wrong with this, Steph? The writing is decent—it fulfills the basic requirements of a YA blockbuster—and yet, despite the fact that I am reading it, I have an utter lack of investment in the characters and their fates.” What, exactly, did TRUTH OR DARE lack that kept it only mediocre?And then I realized: it was lacking a heart. There is no non-superficial reason for caring about the characters. Superficiality in fiction differs from superficiality in real life. In real life, superficiality refers to physical, tangible things like appearances or dress or money. In fiction, it refers to the lack of spark that makes the characters never read like anything more than a couple of puppets. And it doesn’t matter how many oh-so-sad tragedies you want to pile on a character—Tenley’s father, Sydney’s past, Caitlin’s kidnapping, Caitlin’s panic attacks, Caitlin’s everything—the fact is that the author did not succeed in making her characters come alive with personality quirks and turns of phrase and all those things that make a person unique. It doesn’t take a really jaded reader to notice this.(Side note: TRUTH OR DARE is a product of Paper Lantern Lit, a company that essentially develops elaborate plots and then hires new authors to write the stories. I didn’t learn this until after I had already finished the book. The correlation between PLL-style books and—in my opinion—their general lack of heart has yet to be scientifically examined.)Despite the lack of heart and my lack of investment in the characters, I still kept on reading, drawn by the idea that all would be revealed, and several hours’ worth of my time would be justified. That was before I got to the thoroughly unrewarding ending, which, compared to the tight plotting of the rest of the book, was sloppy, a slap-dash anti-climax put together as a weak payoff before the mystery continues painfully on to a Book Two. What the hell?! Is it too much to ask for some sort of payoff, some sort of conclusion, after trudging through 400 pages of drivel tailor-made for the nonthinking YA reader? There is no clearer sign that this was a concept created for purely financial reasons than such a cop-out ending that basically demands that if you wanted to be invested in the story, you had better be in it for the long haul. Too bad that wasn’t made clear earlier in the story for the rest of us who have no interest in making that sort of an investment in a forgettable teen mystery series.Oh, I have no doubt that this book will find its audience. It’s just the sort of mediocre copycat drivel that drives the market nowadays.