Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

Summary

Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the hallucinatory effects of absinthe -- Flannery and the seven other friends in the Basic Eight have suffered through it all. But now, on tabloid television, they're calling Flannery a murderer, which is a total lie. It's true that high school can be so stressful sometimes. And it's true that sometimes a girl just has to kill someone. But Flannery wants you to know that she's not a murderer at all -- she's a murderess.

Review

This is an interesting book, it reads like a diary, but has been modified by the writer in the future, as evidence for her murder trial. It's interesting to see how things play out, though it is eluded as to what will happen. You do begin to relate to the main character and feel bad for the inevitable that will come.

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