Language: PG-13 (34 swears, 0 ‘f’); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG-13 (bodily harm, threats of death)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
17yo Tess is excited to be exchanging places with a student from heavenly Rome for 5 weeks – even if her Italian is almost non-existent. Unfortunately, she finds herself in hell – her guest family, the Rossi’s have some secret agenda, which is based around forcing Sophie to do break and enter people’s homes and steal from them. There doesn’t seem to be any way to escape the Rossi’s – they can hear her every word and will happily maim or kill her family back in America if she doesn’t comply. Then Tess realizes that the Rossi’s are somehow connected to her own Italian heritage and she’s stolen an important item from her own aunt’s home. If there is some way she can communicate with someone here who can help her out of this nightmare – perhaps Devin, the ultra-cute fellow exchange student?
What starts out as a cute Roman holiday quickly takes a dark turn into the bad. And once you know how the Rossi’s are connected to Tess’s own family, then the puzzle pieaces start clicking together. I like that Feldman doesn’t keep the reader in the dark with a surprise twist ending and that the teens are very clever in getting Tess the space she needs. As it is only printed in paperback, it is an easy choice if you want thrillers.
Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS
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