One Night that Changes Everything
by Lauren Barnholdt
It's the weekend and Eliza's parents are out of town, so what does Eliza do? She spends all night following the instructions of the secret high school club that is holding her personal notebook of fears hostage until they feel she's punished for ratting out her ex and possibly preventing him from getting into a college he doesn't even want to attend.
Seriously.
Months after breaking it off with Cooper after finding out he dated her as part of an initiation into a secret high school prank group called the 318s, Eliza is forced to perform tasks reflecting the secret fears that she had been putting in her purple notebook since the seventh grade.
She now has to somehow complete the tasks before they post the notebook online and share her secrets with everyone. And some of those secrets are better left unknown.
Final thoughts: This was a really good read about how fear can stop a person from doing things that could really be fun, while also showing how scary high schoolers and the Internet can be nowadays. I loved Eliza's POV, but would have loved it more if she'd been able to see the obviousness of some of the things around her a little earlier in the narrative.
Rating: 4/5
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