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Carregando... Teacher's Pet (edição: 1990)de Richie Tankersley Cusick (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I think that Moonlight Reader and I posted this as a potential read during Halloween Book Bingo. Wow, I had forgotten what a mess this book was. I honestly went into this blind since I didn't recall a thing at all about this book. I know I had it though as a kid since I had most of Cusick's books when I was growing up. Maybe even at that age I knew a bad book when I read one and pushed it out of my head. "Teacher's Pet" follows Kate and her teacher who go to a writer's retreat. Don't ask questions about this retreat though since her teacher is into romance and Kate is into horror. They both go off and go sit in on other seminars and Kate gets some one on one with Gideon Dewe. Now here is the thing, most of Cusick's books follows a checklist, but it's like she upped the ante in this one. Besides having a teen girl who falls for the first guy she sees, she somehow has crushes on and kisses every dude she meets in this book (there are three, Gideon, Pearce, and unfortunately named dude named Denzil) and somehow all three fall in love with Kate and her beauty. Sorry, you can't see it, but I just snickered like I was five when I typed that. I don't even get why Kate likes horror, it seems superficial at best the way Cusick describes it. She doesn't even go into her favorite authors. And Kate's writing is so terrific that she is singled out in class which makes someone jealous enough to kill (she's the teacher's pet). This book had so many twists and turns I refuse to follow them all. And this was a bit more gruesome than her other works (people find body parts lying around) but it still seemed like a haha type murderous place instead of straight up Camp Crystal Lake. The writing wasn't very good in this one and the characters we meet are shallow. Once again you imagine there are only really 6 people in this book (Kate, Gideon, Pearce, Denzil, Kate's teacher, and also a young girl named Tawney who will cause you to go, well bless your heart a lot while reading about the things she's saying) and you imagine that other people exist, but not really since Kate never speaks to any of them. I laughed out loud while reading this ending around 1 am. The evil-doer is found out, I called BS on that whole thing, Kate kisses one dude, and then the other, both dudes still in love with her and promise to fight for her love (why???) and she hops on a train with her teacher. Um, you all were just murdered and there was a fire, why the heck are the cops allowing them to leave just like that just an hour or so after the events are revealed. I have watched enough of The First 48 to know they just couldn't go home like that. Also where are Kate's parents? You think she call them instead of having her heart beat fast cause she's looking at one of her beau's profile. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Kate will do anything to be the teacher's pet An aspiring horror writer, Kate likes a little scare. When offered a spot at an exclusive weeklong writing conference, she jumps at the chance to go. After all, it's taught by William Drewe, the master of horror himself. But strangely, when Kate arrives, William Drewe is nowhere to be found. Filling in for him is his brother, Gideon, whose assignments give Kate the thrills she seeks. With a teacher like this, she'll get all the material she needs to become a bestselling author . . . if she survives. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richie Tankersley Cusick including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author's personal collection. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Kate is intimidated by all the adult attendees who seem to know one another, as well as the, I don't know, groundskeeper, Pearce. He tells her that William Drewe is not going to show up so she'd better leave. She is at least befriended by Denzil and Tawney, young staff members. We also meet 'Pet', the black cat who lives at the retreat. She steals clothes and we all love her.
The retreat is set up a lot like a summer camp where there are a few central buildings and a lot of tiny cabins where attendees sleep and shower all overshadowed by trees. There's not much description, but later there's a lot of being lost in the trees so we must assume they were there all along.
William Drewe is a no-show, but his younger, hotter brother is. He wins over the class with his charm and single out Kate's story for personal attention. She is even invited to see him after class for some one-on-one tutoring.
The book eventually gets going as Kate begins to find herself the vicitm of mean-spritied pranks. Clothes are snatched while she skinny-dips with Tawney, blood is smeared on walls, and someone gives Pet a glove full of bloody hand to drag around. Who could be responsible? Pearce is creepy. Denzil is creepy possessive. Mr. Drewe (the younger) is creepy, possessive and handsy. Or it could be the hoarse-voiced goth girl who confronts her on a misty path in the woods warning her in rhyme that she's gonna get it.
This is so problematic and unbelievable, but it at least has some real danger and a few laughs. ( )