Review: Treachery At Ever Turn
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 1, 2013
This is a fabulous book. It is a remake of Cruel Intentions which is a modern day telling of The Dangerous Liaisons. There are some people that "just want to watch the world to burn." I guess If you have been hurt enough and mistreated enough, you just want others to feel the same type of misery that you have been through. You want to make others just as hurt and miserable and then you feel better about yourself. That is what Lizzie and Oliver Nixon are like in this. Oliver just follows and lets his sister lead him around and he does her bidding. He loves her and wants to protect her. Zara is the new Principal of Birchtree Academy's Private School's daughter. She gave an interview and came off saying that she wouldn't sleep with someone until she was in love with them and married. Lizzie and Oliver do their best to become her "friends". Lizzie and Oliver's father used to be the Principal but now he's been demoted down to Vice Principal. So they set up to destroy her to ruin her father so their father can get his position back. So Lizzie pretends to be best friends with Zara and Oliver tries to get her to have sex with him and be his "friend." Of course, Oliver falls in love with Zara while trying to get her to sleep with him. Lizzie takes it upon herself to destroy her and not let her take her brother away. I'm looking forward to the next 2 books - the book from Oliver's perception and the follow up to this one. That one sounds more like Mean Girls, Zara tries to get back in with the popular crowd to take down the Queen but in the end loses herself and becomes too much like her. This is a definite series that is worth reading.