Hysteria

by Megan Miranda

Overview

New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda's masterful storytelling brings readers along for a ride to the edge of sanity and back again.

Mallory killed her boyfriend, Brian. She can't remember the details of that night but everyone knows it was self-defense, so she isn't charged. But Mallory still feels Brian's presence in her life. Is it all in her head? Or is it something more?

In desperate need of a fresh start, Mallory is sent to Monroe, a fancy prep school where no one knows her . . . or anything about her past. But the feeling follows her, as do her secrets. Then, one of her new classmates turns up dead. As suspicion falls on Mallory, she must find a way to remember the details of both deadly nights so she can prove her innocence-to herself and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780802723284
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/05/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	336
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Megan Miranda is the New York Times bestselling author of Fracture, Vengeance, Hysteria, Soulprint, The Safest Lies, and Fragments of the Lost, as well as the adult thrillers The Perfect Stranger and All the Missing Girls. She spends a great deal of time thinking about the "why" and "how" of things, which leads her to get carried away daydreaming about the "what-ifs." She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children.
www.meganmiranda.com
@MeganLMiranda
MEGAN MIRANDA is the acclaimed author of Fracture, Vengeance, and Hysteria. She spends a great deal of time thinking about the “why” and “how” of things, which leads her to get carried away daydreaming about the “what-ifs.” She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children.

Visit Megan online at www.meganmiranda.com and on Twitter at @MeganLMiranda.

Editorial Reviews

An atmospheric thriller, ripe with tension, overcomes a superfluous subplot. Her murder of her boyfriend Brian has been ruled an act of self-defense, but Mallory is still trapped by what happened that night. To help her get past the murder, her parents send her to Monroe Prep, the boarding school her father attended. But Mallory can't escape the feeling that Brian's mother has followed her or that Brian's spirit is everywhere. Distracting from this gripping suspense is the unnecessary drama at Monroe, where Mallory acts on her feelings for Reid, the son of her father's best friend, and fights off the attentions of Jason, the dean of students' son. Another violent, bloody death--in her own dorm room--acts as the catalyst for Mallory to finally discover what happened that night with Brian as well as this more recent event--although readers will find this second death far less interesting. The storyline at Monroe dilutes the power of Mallory's recovery and minimizes Mallory's relationship with her best friend Colleen, a disappointingly unexplored element. Still, the primary thriller plot and readers' investment in Mallory will keep the pages turning. (Thriller. 14 & up)

Kirkus Reviews