![]() Agent: Penny Moore, Aevitas Creative Management. ![]() Still, interwoven Tip Tap posts, text messages, and flashbacks maintain intrigue, and Nancy’s first-person narration capably drives this fast-paced thriller to its unrelenting close. Discourse regarding drugs, fashion, gangs, race, and privilege feels shallow, and an apparent lack of research undermines credibility. Nancy, fellow Chinese American scholarship student Alexander Lin, Indian track star and hotel heir Akil Patel, and Korean fashionista and pharmaceuticals heiress Krystal Choi must find the murderer-and protect their own secrets-before the Proctor takes them down. That is, until an anonymous figure called the Proctor starts posting on school gossip app Tip Tap, implicating Jamie’s former best friends in her death. When she goes missing, Chinese American poet and junior scholarship student Nancy Luo is eager to fill her queen bee shoes. ![]() Domineering Chinese American junior class president Jamie Ruan fell from grace two months ago after her father was arrested for embezzlement. In this YA debut by Zhao (the Dragon Warrior series), Sinclair Prep, a private “elite high school that ranked number one in every area imaginable” on New York City’s Upper West Side, is home to myriad sins. Description In a YA thriller that is Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying, students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets when their ex-best friend turns up dead. ![]()
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