In one short summer, her entire life changes and she sweeps through Blackbriar, prepped to take the beautiful people down from the inside.
She’s not supposed to think about Kian once the deal is done, but devastating pain burns behind his unearthly beauty, and he’s impossible to forget. But thanks to a Faustian compact with the enigmatic Kian, she has the power to make the bullies pay.
Their cruelty drove her to the brink of despair, and four months ago, she couldn’t imagine being strong enough to face her senior year.
Edie’s transition from suicidal mess to gutsy heroine is more expedient than believable, but her inner dialogue keeps readers on track with her persisting insecurities, ensuring that readers will be fully on board as she prepares to do battle in the promised sequel.In Ann Aguirre's Mortal Danger, Edie Kramer has a score to settle with the beautiful people at Blackbriar Academy. Aguirre’s prose is uneven, but her premise successfully blends ancient archetypes with today’s urban legends and internet memes to craft a thrilling puzzle that prods the dark recesses of the imagination into a waking nightmare. These things were not part of her bargain, and she is determined to find a way to stop the body count and regain control. On the other, her life has become a horror movie complete with specters only she can see, classmates dying of a flesh-eating disease, and, most devastating of all, the grisly murder of her mother. On the one hand, things have become much more bearable for Edie, who becomes beautiful, acquires friends, and enjoys an intense, reciprocated crush on Kian. Soon, however, Edie sees that there is more to her bargain than Kian originally let on, and that both she and he are now pawns in a deadly game played by immortals and created from humanity’s worst nightmares. He and his people can grant her three favors, which, to Edie, mean revenge against her tormentors and make the cost-three favors in return-well worth paying. Bullied and humiliated, Edie is set to exit this life when Kian, a preternaturally attractive stranger, appears with an offer that is more appealing than jumping off a bridge.
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