

The Merciless
Author: Danielle Vega
Narrator: Danielle Vega
Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/12/2014
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Bullying, Horror
Author: Danielle Vega
Narrator: Danielle Vega
Unabridged: 6 hr 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Published: 06/12/2014
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Bullying, Horror
Danielle Vega spent her childhood hiding under the covers while her mother retold tales from the pages of Stephen King novels. Now an adult, she can count on one hand the number of times in her life she's been truly afraid. Danielle has won numerous awards for her fiction and nonfiction, and earned a 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination for her short story “Drive.” She lives in Brooklyn.
The Merciless really is just a crappy version of Mean Girls with a heavy dose of gratuitous violence and sensationalism. I kept seeing the Mean Girls parallels as I was reading - the two really are astonishingly alike, but this book fills up the absence of clever irony with senseless melodrama and a......more
This is a crazy, weird, insanely messed up book, but kinda awesome. I am a big fan of all things scary and the horror genre and I think this book lives up to that title. The characters weren't great, it was predictable at times, but the plot overall was insane. I think the gruesome/horrific scenes wer......more
AAAAAAAAAAH! This was my reaction to much of this novel's… happenings. It's a horror through and through, and definitely not for the wussies or faint of hearts. After a quick introduction to our protagonist and the setting, we're thrust into a house-of-torture kind of read where these girls have it......more
3.5 stars "Hang out with Brooklyn, I mean. I don't think she's seen you with us yet. You can find out why she's such a bitch now." "You want me to spy on her?" I ask. Ladies and gentlemen, may I present Mean Girls! Now with an extra dash of exorcism! "We exorcise you, impure one, you satanic pow......more
Primer libro del año y con esta calificación. El tema del libro es por completo mi estilo predilecto de lecturas, la autora apuesta por lo diferente y nos trae una historia plagada de elementos que, aunque al principio no parecen tan relevantes, en conjunto te sorprenden por completo. Todo, de verdad......more