Emily's List

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By Sean Platt & David W. Wright

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All Cora wants is a new start. But when your problems come back to haunt you, how far will you go to exorcise them?

After the tragic loss of her horror writer father, Cora is starting over in a new town, at a new school where nobody knows her. Nobody knows about her OCD tics. Nobody knows about her time in a mental hospital. Nobody knows she sees her father's ghost.

But her new start is shattered when she fails to suppress her OCD tics in class. She finds herself targeted by bullies again. New town, same loneliness and shame. She's afraid to turn to her overworked mother, who is already worried about her mental health.

Then Cora meets Emily, the only person who gets her. Homeschooled Emily has suffered serious abuse, and she has a list. A list of people who have hurt her. A list of people that includes Cora's bullies. And Emily wants Cora's help in getting revenge.

Can Cora find a normal life by striking back at her tormentors? Or is she being lured into a darkness that will consume the sanity she's desperately clinging to?

Emily's List is a character-driven suspense thriller full of dark secrets and twisted revelations, perfect for fans of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Haunting of Hill House.

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3.0

mikka.reads

Created 11 months ago

“More teen angst than thriller Amazon promises a character-driven suspense thriller, but to me, that's a double no. This very much reads like a book targeted at teens and young adults, with only tame suspense and a protagonist that feels not nearly fleshed-out enough to carry the story. In Cora, we have a main character who suffers from severe OCD, with tics that take a real toll on her life. This is something she shares with one of the authors, David W. Wright, which is most likely why this part of the story reads as convincing and authentic as it does. However, while I do appreciate the mental health rep, I found Cora's non-stop negative self-talk grueling and increasingly difficult to read. Yes, she has been bullied relentlessly. Yes, she has had a very rough couple of years. So it does make sense that she would have very low self-esteem or even ptsd, but her thoughts are extremely repetitive and we see very little character growth in this regard, up until an ending that suddenly has her change rapidly. Also, I do not like that this is yet another YA book that seems to demonize medication, at least for large parts of the book. It's portrayed as Cora having only two options: feel horribly depressed without meds, or feel nothing at all with them. While I do believe that overmedication is an important issue, I wish the book would acknowledge that they can also be a literal life-saver BEFORE we get to the very end. The other characters are a mixed bag. Some are walking clichees, like the mean girls who torment Cora, others are promising but do not seem to fulfill that promise. Like Alex, the boy Cora has a crush on: Some things said about him seem contradictory, others hint at a deeper meaning, only to fizzle out with no further explanation. The most interesting character is probably Emily, who basically plans her own »13 Reasons Why« with more dire consequences. For much of the book, she seems to be the one pulling the strings in the background, while readers are left to wonder if she is Cora's ally or uses the girl's insecurities against her. Towards the end, though, a character unimportant thus far suddenly takes center-stage, which to me felt like a cop-out, a way to hastily tie up some lose ends and shift blame. The pacing seems off, too. It's very slow for most of the book, only to feel rushed in the last 10% or so.”

Leah Elaine

Created over 1 year ago

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