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Author: Kendare Blake
Author: Will Dean
Author: Christina Lauren
Author: Mindy McGinnis
I think we've all read a book and thought "OMG!" or "OMG???" and that's what today's post is about. Shout out to Theresa for suggesting this as a list!
Because I don't want to spoil what the twist is, I'm just going to list the books with a fun "plot twist" rating.
THREE DARK CROWNS
Author: Kendare Blake
Series: Three Dark Crowns #1
Source: ARC via Publisher
Publisher: HarperTeen
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
Plot Twist Shock Value: 4/5 gasps
Summary:
When kingdom come, there will be one.
In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to spark hungry flames or vicious storms at the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, one who can ingest the deadliest poisons without so much as a stomachache. Arsinoe, a naturalist, is said to have the ability to bloom the reddest rose and control the fiercest of lions.
But becoming the Queen Crowned isn’t solely a matter of royal birth. Each sister has to fight for it. And it’s not just a game of win or lose…it’s life or death. The night the sisters turn sixteen, the battle begins.
The last queen standing gets the crown.
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NEVERWORLD WAKE
Author: Marisha Pessl
Series: N/A
Source: IndigoTeen's Indigo Staff Pick of the Month
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Publication Date: June 5, 2018
Plot Twist Shock Value: 3/5 gasps
Summary:
Once upon a time, back at Darrow-Harker School, Beatrice Hartley and her six best friends were the cool kids, the beautiful ones. Then the shocking death of Jim—their creative genius and Beatrice's boyfriend—changed everything.
One year after graduation, Beatrice is returning to Wincroft—the seaside estate where they spent so many nights sharing secrets, crushes, plans to change the world—hoping she'll get to the bottom of the dark questions gnawing at her about Jim’s death. But as the night plays out in a haze of stilted jokes and unfathomable silence, Beatrice senses she’s never going to know what really happened.
Then a mysterious man knocks on the door. Blithely, he announces the impossible: time for them has become stuck, snagged on a splinter that can only be removed if the former friends make the harshest of decisions. Now Beatrice has one last shot at answers... and at life.
And so begins the Neverworld Wake.
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DARK PINES
Author: Will Dean
Series: N/A
Source: Audiobook
Publisher: OneWorld Publications Point Blank
Publication Date: January 4, 2018
Plot Twist Shock Value: 4/5 gasps
Summary:
An isolated Swedish town. A deaf reporter terrified of nature. A dense spruce forest overdue for harvest. A pair of eyeless hunters found murdered in the woods.
It’s week one of the Swedish elk hunt and the sound of gunfire is everywhere. When Tuva Moodyson investigates the story that could make her career she stumbles on a web of secrets that knit Gavrik town together. Are the latest murders connected to the Medusa killings twenty years ago? Is someone following her? Why take the eyes? Tuva must face her demons and venture deep into the woods to stop the killer and write the story. And then get the hell out of Gavrik.
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JOSH AND HAZEL'S GUIDE TO NOT DATING
Author: Christina Lauren
Series: N/A
Source: Audiobook
Publisher: Gallery Books
Publication Date: September 4, 2018
Plot Twist Shock Value: 3/5 gasps
Summary:
Hazel Camille Bradford knows she’s a lot to take—and frankly, most men aren’t up to the challenge. If her army of pets and thrill for the absurd don’t send them running, her lack of filter means she’ll say exactly the wrong thing in a delicate moment. Their loss. She’s a good soul in search of honest fun.
Josh Im has known Hazel since college, where her zany playfulness proved completely incompatible with his mellow restraint. From the first night they met—when she gracelessly threw up on his shoes—to when she sent him an unintelligible email while in a post-surgical haze, Josh has always thought of Hazel more as a spectacle than a peer. But now, ten years later, after a cheating girlfriend has turned his life upside down, going out with Hazel is a breath of fresh air.
Not that Josh and Hazel date. At least, not each other. Because setting each other up on progressively terrible double blind dates means there’s nothing between them...right?
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THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
Author: Mindy McGinnis
Series: N/A
Source: Audiobook
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Publication Date: September 20, 2016
Plot Twist Shock Value: 4/5 gasps
Summary:
A contemporary YA novel that examines rape culture through alternating perspectives.
Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn’t feel bad about it.
Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best—the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can’t be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna’s body was discovered. And not with Peekay, the preacher’s kid with a defiant streak who befriends Alex while they volunteer at an animal shelter. Not anyone.
As their senior year unfolds, Alex’s darker nature breaks out, setting these three teens on a collision course that will change their lives forever.
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I've not read any of these, but I'm a little bit intrigued. I've never really thought of Plot Twists after the fact - but I think this year Six Of Crows stunned me at times, and Heart Of Iron had a twist that I lowkey anticipated after a certain point. It was set up well, but the confirmation still made me pause and put the book down for a bit.
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