CONTEMPORARY TEEN FICTION
Reed's boyfriend, Thomas Pearson--the popular, easygoing, irresistibly handsome and charismatic boy she fell in love with--is dead. No one knows how it happened, and everyone is after the truth. Or are they?
Life at Easton Academy begins to feel very different. Taylor is acting like the poster child for Prozac, Kiran is spiking her cornflakes, Noelle is being kind of...nice, and Ariana keeps floating along as if nothing has happened.
Thanksgiving Break arrives and Reed and Josh find themselves alone on campus. They are forced to confront the feelings they've ben hiding. Those feelings combined with an empty campus result in the hottest hookup Reed could possibly imagine. But when Reed breaks the news about Josh to the Billings Girls, there's no fun game of tell-all. Instead, Josh begins to look like suspect No. 1 in the murder of Thomas Pearson.
The perfect life Reed has constructed as a Billings Girl begins to crumble. And as everyone becomes more convinced of Josh's guilt, Reed's private suspicions lead her somewhere she doesn't want to go.
Wow. I think this was the most intensely thrilling and emotional Private novel I've read so far. Only the third installment in the series and the drama is so upped that I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't read it! And trust me, that's not a bad thing. The stakes are high, the plot complex, and the books addicting.
Now, if you haven't been following my reviews regarding the Private series, you probably don't know what's going on. A brief explanation: Reed Brennan's pill-popping mother is primarily the reason Reed worked her ass off to get a scholarship at the most prestigious boarding school in the country: Easton. And now that she's there, it took her a little bit, but she earned a spot with the most beautiful, popular, and intelligent girls on campus, not to mention landed the hottest boy in school, who she didn't know at the time was a drug-dealer, in bed. Noelle, Ariana, Taylor, and Kiran are the Billings Girls, who rule the school and have accepted Reed into their circle. But if Reed thought things were going to get any easier after becoming friends with the Billings Girls, she was way off...
Anyway, so lately, Reed's drug-dealing boyfriend, Thomas, has been murdered, and Reed's starting to fall for his adorable roommate, Josh. But when she hooks up with him and tells the Billings Girls, it turns out Josh's past--and present--is more shady than anything she could have ever imagined.
I already mentioned it, but Untouchable was the one novel in the Private series that has really stood out to me. I mean, I loved Private and Invitation Only wholeheartedly too. But this one kept me turning the pages even when my eyelids were about to close automatically. There's a LOT of character development and transitioning in this novel, which is always great, but here, it was fantastic. Each Billings Girl, except maybe Ariana, is undergoing major changes, all of which affect Reed in some way or another. Plus, Reed learns so much that she's starting to become paranoid and doubtful of Easton in general, which definitely raises the stakes.
The glamor, the drama, the suspense, the mystery, the characters, the plotline...is there anything I don't love about this novel?
To all of you who have been faithfully following my Private reviews: I know you're getting tired of this little tidbit that I include at the end, and I'm sorry. But it's kind of necessary for those who are just starting to get into the Private series on my behalf, so here we go:
I have this little basket in my room where I stack all my books from the library. Anyway, so I have about HALF the Private series waiting in my basket. I saw the first half at the library and grabbed 'em, but I don't know how soon I'll be able to get the other half. However, if you think this book sounded great, then you might want to follow the rest of my Private reviews. Oh, and BTW: as if that isn't reason enough, Untouchable receives five stars!
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