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    Dangerous Boys

    By Abigail Haas

    3.5/5

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    About this ebook

    It all comes down to this.

    Oliver, Ethan, and I.

    Three teens venture into an abandoned lake house one night. Hours later, only two emerge from the burning wreckage.

    Chloe drags one Reznick brother to safety, unconscious and bleeding.

    The other is left to burn, dead in the fire. But which brother survives?

    And is his death a tragic accident?

    Desperate self-defense?

    Or murder . . .?

    Chloe is the only one with the answers. As the fire rages, and police and parents demand the truth, she struggles to piece the story together - a story of jealousy, twisted passion and the darkness that lurks behind even the most beautiful faces . . .

    Praise for Dangerous Girls:

    "The best teen thriller I've ever read." Wondrous Reads

    "I haven't wanted to talk about a book this much since Gone Girl" goodreads.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateAug 14, 2014
    ISBN9781471119170
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    Dangerous Boys
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    Abigail Haas

    Abigail Haas has written two adult novels and four young adult contemporary novels under the name Abby McDonald. Dangerous Girls is her first young adult thriller. She grew up in Sussex, England, and studied Politics, Philosophy & Economics at Oxford University. She lives in Los Angeles.

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    • 3/5
      Nobody's told you how to say those things. Nobody said you ever could. So you stay silent, and restless, and guilty.
      Bad, for wanting so much more.
      Bad, for not appreciating everything they give.
      Bad, for all the dark places inside your soul you try so hard to hide.

      I hate being the person who takes a raving 5-star wielding book and seeing it only as 'okay.' Abigail Haas blew me away with Dangerous Girls and I expected no less with Dangerous Boys. I suspect that's where the problem lay, for me. I went into it with too high expectations and found myself, yes, racing through it but, at the same time, thinking, "Okay, so?"

      Unlike Dangerous Girls, Haas tells you pretty early in the story pretty much everything that happened that night in the lake house, so there isn't much suspense. You know, by around 20%, that someone crucial is dead. You know, by 30%, exactly what happened. The meticulous way it is detailed gives you no space to think, "Is it any other way?" And if a detail that is supposed to be shocking is revealed, you either find it unbelievable or shocking.

      Dangerous Boys left very little to the imagination. So my problem stems from, primarily, the weird characters. I felt completely and utterly detached by every single one of them.

      Family is a big deal to me. It's the way I was brought up. Family comes first, your life second. I have given up going to university so I could stay home and be close to my family, I regret it every day, but I don't regret being here at home. So when Chloe resents her mother (sure, she has reasons, but they aren't good enough for me) and decides to ship he off to their long lost aunt, I was furious. You don't do that to family. You don't wash your hands of them so you can move on with your life. You just don't.

      "She just needed some incentive to keep it together," I told him, closing my bedroom door and stripping off my jacket. "It's either me or the psych ward."
      "Why don't you pick the latter?" [...] "You should commit her, it would get her out of your hair."

      And for all her do-gooding, Chloe dumps her mother in the worst way possible, on someone whom they haven't spoken to in years. She made her mother feel worthless, like something dirty she found on the street, and treated her like a child. Sure, desperate times call for desperate measures, but these weren't desperate times at all. Chloe wanted a reason to go to New York with her boyfriend's brother, and screw his brains out.

      That irked me.

      The other two main characters I couldn't stand were Ethan, the boyfriend, and Oliver, his brother. Ethan, at first, was sweet, gently, the perfect boyfriend but he quickly became clingy, annoying, like a child in constant need of reassurance. He's described as "fumbling", "eager", "sweet" too many times for my liking. Instead of seeing a strong, sweet boyfriend, I saw a fourteen year old boy with his dick in hand, wondering what to do with it. You know?

      I didn't believe in the deep, loving relationship they supposedly had before Oliver came into the picture.

      As Johnny Depp once said, "If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second."

      That's what I couldn't stand. That Chloe was such a weak person that she couldn't dump her boyfriend. Instead, she ran around behind his back with his brother, screwing him, laughing about him, only to crawl back into his arms when the going got tough. She was a weak, nasty girl who couldn't get her priorities straight.

      Oliver, on the other hand, is the complete opposite, and I hate him. Hate him. He's the kind of arrogant asshole that makes you want to slap him, but you don't, lest you give him some sort of satisfaction. Everything you do, is wrong. How dare you try and live life your way? How dare you want to live at home, or love your boyfriend, or take classes? How dare you be a "sheep"?

      "Don't quit on me now and go spiralling back into your little "what have I done?" pity party," Oliver replied. He took my arm in a firm grip, pulling me back around to look at the body, at all the blood.
      "Don't," I murmured weakly, but Oliver held firm.
      "You can't play that innocent act with me now, I was there, remember?" His eyes drilled into me. "I watched you take the shot. I felt your heart race as you pulled the trigger. It was your choice. You did this. So own it. There's nothing wrong with it."
      Nothing wrong.

      I applaud Haas for creating an incredibly creepy, first class psychopath. I couldn't see any appeal or charm because I was too busy grabbing the pepper spray. I didn't see what Chloe saw in him. He's the kind of bloke who is hot, crazy, and makes you run in the opposite direction.

      This "love triangle"? It didn't work.

      Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing. Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking world down and start again.

      It was fast paced, incredibly well written, but it lacked the Dangerous Girls oomph. It seemed to start and end in fifty pages. I didn't get the ending (what the fuck was that about?!) and everything came off as shallow, cold, detached. It wasn't my cup of tea.

      So to conclude, I'd like to say one last thing: Don't read this if you think it's going to be as mind blowing as Dangerous Girls. Have no expectations whatsoever, and you may enjoy it more than me.
    • 5/5
      I received a copy from Netgalley.

      It sounded interesting enough, and I figured a mildly interesting teen thriller with a made for TV movie feel. Could not have been more wrong. This was a disturbing and fascinating story. Small town girl counting down the days until she leaves for college, becomes involved with two boys. One good brother, one not so good.

      Sounds like a dull love triangle story, but its not by any means. The way small town life is depicted is fascinating, and the author has a way with the narrative of provoking desire and some uncomfortable truths about what as people you are willing to face and what you'd rather bury inside.

      The plot was gripping, watching this so call ordinary girl spiral towards a darker self as she falls for. Its hard to go into the psychology of the character dynamics, especially with how things progress with the second brother as that would be very spoliery to the character and plot.

      Given the premise the story is told in a 'then' and 'now' fascination, The Big Event itself, what happened to get them to that point and the 'now' being the aftermath what happened. Which gives the story an interesting depth to see how these characters build through out.

      A bit of a slow start, but once I got into it it I couldn't put it down. I loved it.

      So huge thanks to Netgalley and Simon and Schuster UK Children's for approving my request to view this title.
    • 5/5
      Firstly, I would like to say a massive to my favourite fellow bloggers, Charnall & Amanda who recommended this book to me in the first place. Only a few weeks before I requested this book on Netgalley, had I started to hear about Abigail Haas and her first book Dangerous Girls. So you can imagine my excitement when I first heard about her new book being on Netgalley, although I never expected to be accepted.Anyway on to the review. When I first started the book I didn't know exactly what I was getting myself in to. But I could tell straight from the start that it was going to be a book to remember, and I wasn't far off. The books is set in 2 sections, the past and present. In the past, Chloe is the full time carer of her depressed mother, looking for a way out of town to finally do something for herself, when brothers Ethan and Oliver walk into her life. In the present? One of the brothers is dead, the other in critical condition. Which one is which, is something you will have to read the book for because every time you think you know who it is, something happens to leave you doubting it.Ethan is a sweet and caring boy, he is so utterly in love with Chloe that it breaks my heart how she treated him at times. He worships the ground she walks on and it seems at times her thoughts are somewhere else and when Ethan's not so sweet or kind older brother Oliver comes home from college, its easy to see where her head is at. Ethan was there when she needed someone, but she has this deep routed connection to Oliver that she can't make sense up but can't ignore either.Everything about the book flowed perfectly, from the time difference between past and present, to the character development and the relationship’s in the story. Chloe is flawed, like really flawed, at times she is a terrible person but that's what makes her so believable. Ethan is sometimes too nice and Oliver too mean, they all have traits to make the character's in the book absolutely perfect and Abigail Haas is so unique in her story telling. She subtlety puts clues in the story, but not enough to give anything away. Just enough to keep you guessing.I am so happy that I not only requested this book but was told about it. It was without a doubt, far much better than I ever expected. I was gripped from the start and it held on to me till the end. I don't think a lot of people have heard of Abigail Haas, or of her fantastic books. She without a doubt an author you should keep your eye on