 | Darkly : a novel Author: Pessl, Marisha | |
| Price: $14.99 | ||
Summary:
When high schooler Arcadia unexpectedly secures the notorious game-maker's internship, she and the other interns become players in the most twisted game yet.
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (+) (09/15/24)
School Library Journal (00/11/24)
Booklist (11/01/24)
The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/12/24)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 11/01/2024 The Willy Wonka of board games wants to know: What would you kill for? That’s the question Arcadia “Dia” Gannon has to answer to apply for the internship run by the estate of Louisiana Veda, a woman known for the creation of 28 unsettling board games called Darklys. In short order, Dia is awarded the internship and whisked off to a small, abandoned island near London with six other teens who are tasked to find the twenty-ninth Darkly. Very genre-aware, Dia is prepared for things to get weird, and they definitely get weirder. This atmospheric mystery is combined with terrifying sessions of an interactive Darkly that the interns are intermittently kidnapped to participate in. Dia’s character has depths that supporting characters lack, although those characters are multifaceted enough to still be substantial. Overall, Pessl set forth with an ambitious concept, and the result is thrilling, mysterious, and full of shocking twists through the very last page. - Copyright 2024 Booklist.
