Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer: Incredibad Teen Fiction as good as it sounds

Found at Goodwill, this Katie Alender thriftstore find was well loved by it’s previous owner. With pages dog eared so fantastically that the corners were physically missing (I have been told this is ‘purse wear and tear’), this was bought for the pure joy of reading rediculous fiction. It was unregretably enjoyable, while understandably juvenile in most ways, leading readers with any intuition down barely disguised channels.

Spoiled and entitled American teen Collette Iselin. She holds a secret back from her rich Bratz doll friends-  Collette has moved into a tiny apartment, wears carefully purchased thrift clothing, and is on scholarship at their elite Private school. Daddy, recently Mid-Life-Crisised to his own space, has left poor Collete in a social  ladder dead zone.

In preparation for a ‘life changing’ trip to Paris with her French class, Collette finds a mysterious box in the claustrophobic confines of her apartment storage facility. Handed down from her Great Grandmother, the box contains a beautiful antique necklace heirloom. Meanwhile, Paris teen socialites are being beheaded mysteriously.

Any guesses what happens next?

You are probably right. And a boy is involved. And teenage introspection. And heavyhanded language. And and and..

Pretty great book for what it is worth ;)