Title: All These Beautiful Strangers
Author: Elizabeth Klehfoth
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: July 10, 2018
In the last day of summer, Grace Fairchild, the beautiful young wife of real estate mogul Allister Calloway, vanished from the family’s lake house without a trace, leaving behind her seven-year old daughter, Charlie, and a slew of unanswered questions.
Years later, seventeen-year-old Charlie still struggles with the dark legacy of her family name and the mystery surrounding her mother. Determined to finally let go of the past, she throws herself into life at Knollwood, the prestigious New Englandschool she attends. Charlie quickly becomes friends with Knollwood’s “it” crowd.
Charlie has also been tapped by the A’s—the school’s elite secret society well known for terrorizing the faculty, administration, and their enemies. To become a member of the A’s, Charlie must play The Game, a semester-long, diabolical high-stakes scavenger hunt that will jeopardize her friendships, her reputation, even her place at Knollwood.
As the dark events of past and present converge, Charlie begins to fear that she may not survive the terrible truth about her family, her school, and her own life.
I haven't read YA in a while and I didn't know it was YA when I started listening to the audiobook of All These Beautiful Strangers. Yet, it didn't take long for the story to suck me in.
The plot revolves around Charlie Calloway, a teenager in her junior year at a prestigious prep school, Knollwood. She is part of the "it" crowd and more so when she is asked to join the elite secret society that goes by the A's. During the current year, the A's will be asking her to do multiple things that could get her in real trouble if she were to be discovered but she wants to be part of the A's more than anything else.
Charlie comes from a rich family and most people know or recognize her last name. When Chloe was seven her mother, Grace Fairchild disappeared with money from their bank account leaving Charlie and her sister Seraphina behind. Charlie's father changed after this. Things were never the same. So when her maternal uncle tells her that he believes there is more to the story, she can't let it go and will begin investigating her parents' past and their connection with Knollwood.
I enjoyed it quite a bit. Charlie grew on me. At first, I thought she was a brat but as more of her was given to us by the author, the more I was rooting for her. The ending was a plus as well despite not being completely believable, it left me quite satisfied.
Cliffhanger: No
4/5 Fangs
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