Book Review: #murdertrending

The young adult novel, "#murdertrending," by Gretchen McNeil, is the goriest book I've ever read. There are so many murders, I lost track and may have gotten desensitized to the horror of it. By the end, I started to anticipate them, even look forward to how the next one was going to go down, because most of them were pretty imaginative.

In spite of the grisly nature, "#murdertrending" was a fresh, fun read that I didn't want to set down. The pace is quick, the story happens in 3 days, and a lot happens. The clues are scattered effectively and I genuinely liked the main character, the damaged 17-year-old Dee Guerrera.

Set in the future at a prison that gets spikes on social media by televising the murders of inmates, there is plenty that seems unbelievable, and even inconsistent within the story, but those are easily forgiven for the sheer fun of reading a quick plot-driven novel with a fresh voice.