She'll threaten to seal Felicity up behind a brick wall if she refuses to tell Tress what she knows.
Certain that Felicity, despite all her denials, knows what really happened, she devises a desperate plan. Now a senior in high school, she's determined to find the truth behind her parents' disappearance. Sent to live with her alcoholic, neglectful, and emotionally abusive grandfather, Tress left behind a happy comfortable life and entered one filled with sadness and poverty. When she was in fifth grade, Tress' parents disappeared without a trace while driving Felicity home. Parents need to know that Mindy McGinnis' thriller The Initial Insult is told in alternating chapters by Tress Montor and her former best friend, Felicity Turnado. One character is a drug dealer.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Tress will have her answers-or settle for revenge.Teens get throwing-up drunk, smoke marijuana, take Ox圜ontin.
A Halloween costume party at an abandoned house provides the ideal situation for Tress to pry the truth from Felicity-brick by brick-as she slowly seals her former best friend into a coal chute. only that she can’t look at Tress without feeling shame and guilt.īut she’ll have to. Felicity has buried what she knows so deeply that she can’t even remember what it is. She knows that one misstep could send her tumbling from the top of the social ladder, and she’s worked hard to make everyone forget that she was with the Montors the night they disappeared. The entire town shuns her now that she lives with her drunken, one-eyed grandfather at what locals refer to as the “White Trash Zoo.”įelicity Turnado has it all: looks, money, and a secret.
When her parents disappeared seven years ago while driving her best friend home, Tress lost everything. Tress Montor knows that her family used to mean something-until she didn’t have a family anymore. Welcome to Amontillado, Ohio, where your last name is worth more than money, and secrets can be kept. In the first book of this suspenseful YA duology, award-winning author Mindy McGinnis draws inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe and masterfully delivers a dark, propulsive mystery in alternating points of view that unravels a friendship.
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