Torn - Cat Clarke

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★★★★☆

Four girls. One dead body. A whole lot of guilt.

Alice King isn’t expecting the holiday of a lifetime when she sets off with her classmates on a trip to the Scottish wilderness, but she’s not exactly prepared for an experience beyond her darkest nightmares…

Alice and her best friend Cass are stuck in a cabin with Polly, the social outcast, and Rae, the moody emo-girl. Then there’s Tara – queen of mean. Powerful, beautiful and cruel, she likes nothing better than putting people down.

Cass decides it’s time to teach Tara a lesson she’ll never forget. And so begins a series of events that will change the lives of these girls forever...

Let me start by saying that I am a huge fan of Cat Clarke's books, and her book Torn didn't let me down in the slightest!

It was a fun read, which handled a gritty plot with a strange combination of humour and teenage innocence. That's one of the things I love about Clarke - she takes teenagers, puts them in seriously messed up situations, and somehow manages to make it seem young and realistic.

The main character, Alice, is pretty much your typical teenage girl who lives with her dad, goes to high school with her best friend, goes on a school trip with said best friend, and accidentally becomes involved in manslaughter.

I mean, if you're going to prank somebody who's bullied you at school, what better way than kill them and chuck their body down a well? Not gonna lie, if they hadn't have moved the body, then there would be no story. They could have just found a teacher, told them a watered-down version of what had happened, and that would be that.

But nope, they chuck the body down a well instead.

And I mean, they probably would have gotten away with it if Alice hadn't have started dating the younger brother of the girl she'd inadvertently killed. It was a cute romance, but it never would have worked out with his sisters death on her hands... #awkward.

Poor Jack. I was screaming at Alice to come clean throughout the entire book. That girl really needed to grow a backbone at some point, and I'm so glad what she did at end (no spoilers. If you wanna know, read the book!)

Think Pretty Little Liars, only the girls killed A and now one of them sees her ghost everywhere. Tempting enough for you?