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Prey
A teacher is supposed to impart a love of learning and a thirst for knowledge. It’s a bit different with Ms. Lori Settles. All the kids are talking about how hot she is–and she is especially interested in Ryan Piccoli. When she starts giving Ryan extra attention, he’s feeling more than happy–at first. He’s used to being the class clown, but really he’s a loner. One day aft...more
Hardcover, 208 pages
Published
December 24th 2008
by Delacorte Books for Young Readers
(first published February 12th 2008)
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Prey is a story about a female high school history teacher, Ms. Lori Settles who seduces her teenage student, Ryan Piccoli. It alternates between the point of view of three characters: Ryan, Ms. Settles, and Honey, Ryan's longtime friend who is secretly in love with him.
The book gets off to a promising start. We learn from the very beginning that Ryan is intentionally Lori's target. From the very first day of school, she knows that, "he'll be the One" (p. 15). Upon reading...more
The book gets off to a promising start. We learn from the very beginning that Ryan is intentionally Lori's target. From the very first day of school, she knows that, "he'll be the One" (p. 15). Upon reading...more
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L. C.
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Dude. What is fucking wrong with you, Piccoli?!
Okay. So this is how the majority of the story went:
"Hey, sexy boobs. I know you're my teacher, but we should totes sleep together."
Wait, no. It actually went more like this:
"Hey, sexy boy. I know you're my student, but we're both sexy so we should totes sleep together."
What. Is going on here.
But then Ryan realizes it's wrong, so it's totes okay. Right?
... Ri...more
Okay. So this is how the majority of the story went:
"Hey, sexy boobs. I know you're my teacher, but we should totes sleep together."
Wait, no. It actually went more like this:
"Hey, sexy boy. I know you're my student, but we're both sexy so we should totes sleep together."
What. Is going on here.
But then Ryan realizes it's wrong, so it's totes okay. Right?
... Ri...more
Reviewed by Me for TeensReadToo.com
Bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel has taken a turn from her normally heartbreaking inspirational novels to write something completely different with PREY. This time around, she tackles a once taboo subject head-on -- that of the skewed relationship between a female teacher and her young male student.
Ryan Piccoli is a typical teen. He's fifteen, a freshman in high school, has a close knit group of friends that include Joel and Honey, a...more
Bestselling author Lurlene McDaniel has taken a turn from her normally heartbreaking inspirational novels to write something completely different with PREY. This time around, she tackles a once taboo subject head-on -- that of the skewed relationship between a female teacher and her young male student.
Ryan Piccoli is a typical teen. He's fifteen, a freshman in high school, has a close knit group of friends that include Joel and Honey, a...more
Prey is book about a student and his teacher having sex. Its told from three differnent perspective, first Ryan the student. Ryan lives with just his dad, and his dad is always out on buisness trips. When Ryan met his new history teacher, he falling over himself just talking to her, which most every other guy in the building was because the teacher looked like a model. Then there is the teachers perspective, Lori who actully becoms attracted to Ryan over the time they spend together. They c...more
I understand what McDaniel was going for. I really do. My problem with this book is that the characters are so incredibly cookie-cutter caricature that it's distracting. On top of that, it seems McDaniel doesn't really know how teens today speak. "Happening dress"? Really?
The main character Ryan is perfect. Of course. His best friend Honey is in love with him, but he doesn't notice her in "that way" because she's "horsey." Of course. And the sexy teacher, ...more
The main character Ryan is perfect. Of course. His best friend Honey is in love with him, but he doesn't notice her in "that way" because she's "horsey." Of course. And the sexy teacher, ...more
Unique, beautifully grotesque, and cataclysmic. This book takes some very interesting turns, pitching the reader between being grossed out and engrossed. The subject alone- teacher sleeping with student- is one that makes the majority of people cringe and turn their nose up in disgust. But McDaniel writes Ryan in such a way that immediate discredit doesn't exist, even during his first time in bed with this teacher.
This book will make you think. Ryan's homelife isn't ideal- a mo...more
Prey was a definite must read for me. When it finally hit paperback I scooped it up and read it pretty quickly. Considering that the book is less then 200 pages long this wasn't exactly speed reading. The main story is very intriguing to me, because I remember when Mary Kay Letourneau was arrested for sleeping with her 13 year old student. She ended up marrying him when he was of legal age, and had already birthed two of his children almost seven years before.
Lori and Ryan's relationsh...more
Lori and Ryan's relationsh...more
Another great book by Lurlene McDaniel. I always read her books when I was younger and when I read the description for Prey I knew that I had to pick up this book and give Lurlene McDaniel another try now that I am older. And her books are still as good as I remember.
The book starts off with Ryan, he has good friends, does okay in school, and is a well rounded kid. He is good friends with a girl named Honey, and Honey has a crush on him, but Ryan only sees her as a friend. Nothing more. Th...more
The book starts off with Ryan, he has good friends, does okay in school, and is a well rounded kid. He is good friends with a girl named Honey, and Honey has a crush on him, but Ryan only sees her as a friend. Nothing more. Th...more
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Really short read about a young boy who gets sexually involved with his teacher. Ryan's no Pacey from Dawson's Creek, and Lori is far more realistically portrayed as a predator than Pacey's teacher-lover. She likes her boys young, she's got a messed up history, and Ryan is much more a victim than he thinks. Ryan's friend Honey is your average teenager with a crush and she is by far the easiest person to deal with. I think the book could have been so much better had it explored some of the is...more
This was a very short book but it was really stange how it made me feel/think psychologically. It's about a student/teacher relationship, with the perspective rotating between the two involved. The book is really well written and feels very real-- the strange part is not the relationship, but my own opinions on it. When I'm reading from the perspective of Lori Settles (the teacher), it is obvious that this is not the first time she has 'preyed' on highschool students for their sexual innocenc...more
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This book was a little scary for me to read. Not frightening in the sense that it gave me nightmares, but more disturbing. It is about a very attractive new teacher at school--Lori Settles, also known by the girls as "stiletto Settles." She is in her thirties and dresses in sexually alluring clothing--at school.
She quickly starts to pay special attention to Ryan, her 15-year-old student, who eagerly drinks in any attention from the sexy Ms. Settles. He soon begins meeing "...more
She quickly starts to pay special attention to Ryan, her 15-year-old student, who eagerly drinks in any attention from the sexy Ms. Settles. He soon begins meeing "...more
McMillian High School has a new history teacher, and she causes quite a stir. Lori Settles is young, smart, and sexy. Sporting skin-tight clothing and stiletto heels, she quickly becomes the center of attention for every male in the school. However, she sets her sights on her fifteen-year-old student, Ryan Piccoli. She makes plans to have him-mind, body, and soul. She's developed her plan and executed it perfectly, only she didn't expect someone to find out...
This novel deals with th...more
This novel deals with th...more
I was interested in this book because as a child I was a big Lurlene McDaniel fan and this was something outside of her usual stories, so I decided to give it a go. As much as I hate to sound rude, I have to admit, I wish I didn't.
The teacher-student issue is something that isn't often mentioned and not something that people particularly like hearing about. I do admire that Lurlene went out of what she usually writes to talk about something more serious and something not commonly tal...more
The teacher-student issue is something that isn't often mentioned and not something that people particularly like hearing about. I do admire that Lurlene went out of what she usually writes to talk about something more serious and something not commonly tal...more
"Who wears stilettos to teach history?" When a silhouette of a teacher wearing three inch heels and this mind triggering quote meet, it certainly makes you want to figure out what the author, Lurlene McDaniel just created. The book Prey made me want to keep flipping the pages until I finished.
McDaniel wants you to pick up this red book and not just enjoy it but as a teenager to realize what situations others have been in and how you can learn from them. She wants to tell teena...more
McDaniel wants you to pick up this red book and not just enjoy it but as a teenager to realize what situations others have been in and how you can learn from them. She wants to tell teena...more
I suppose someone actually likes this crap because someone keeps paying McDaniel to produce it. Prey is actually different than her accidents-diseases-broken-hearts stories, but the story still follows her heavy-handed philosophy of "No one gets to choose what life gives to him or her; one can only choose how one responds to these happenings."
In this book, the "happening" is a female high school history teacher who seduces one of her young male students. The lesso...more
In this book, the "happening" is a female high school history teacher who seduces one of her young male students. The lesso...more
1. I hate Ms. Settles aka Lori. Got she is the WORST! And Ryan can't see anything wrong with that crazy woman! I HATE her. So much, so much, so much. She should drop like a fly getting hit with the swapper.
2. Ryan was..I don't know. He's so freaking confused and doesn't even know what his life really is. I'm not a big fan of him. I kinda leaned toward hate at the end. He's so disgusting.
3. Honey was my favorite. She was from the beginning. I wanted her&Ryan to be togeth...more
2. Ryan was..I don't know. He's so freaking confused and doesn't even know what his life really is. I'm not a big fan of him. I kinda leaned toward hate at the end. He's so disgusting.
3. Honey was my favorite. She was from the beginning. I wanted her&Ryan to be togeth...more
Lurlene McDaniel certainly takes a departure from her other books with this slim,yet taut morsel about a young teen, Ryan, who catches the eye of a youg, sexy,new social studies teacher in his high school. Each chapter is told from one of the main character's point of view. Ryan, Lori, and Honey all tell this story of a forbidden relationship between a teacher and a young teen. The teacher Lori Settles has unreasolved issues, Ryan has has no mother and a father who travels constantly (he is a...more
The second I told my mother about this book, she instantly wanted to know how a 16yr old could ever please a 33yr old. I almost died.
This book is about how a student/teacher relationship effects all those involved. The characters in this book are well written and I could actually relate to Ryan on some of his issues (obvious not the who teacher thing). So much so to the point where my best friend is just like Honey. This book will take you on a ride that you probably weren't even read...more
This book is about how a student/teacher relationship effects all those involved. The characters in this book are well written and I could actually relate to Ryan on some of his issues (obvious not the who teacher thing). So much so to the point where my best friend is just like Honey. This book will take you on a ride that you probably weren't even read...more
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Ryan Piccoli is your average high-school male. He's smart, good-looking and a class clown. He spends most of his free time hanging out with his two best friends, Honey and Joel. But he's also mostly a loner. His mother is out of his life and his father travels a lot for work, leaving Ryan home alone most days. Then Lori Settles, the new history teacher, enters his life. Sexy, high heel-wearing, cleavage-showing Ms. Settles is the talk of the school and has males of both the student and faculty p...more
While this is a young adult book, I would be very wary in giving this to younger teens. It deals with the subject of a female teacher who "preys" upon her fifteen-year-old male student and ends up in a sexual relationship with him. This is very different from this author's normal "inspirational fiction" genre. There was nothing inspirational here. What I found most interesting was the psychological effect on this young man after everything was said and done. Like most yo...more
Wow. Very real, as I read it, I felt as if it could almost be a non-fiction work. The world of teacher's affairs with their students...wow.
Trashingly awesome. Lurlene McDaniel is my guilty pleasure. I'm way too old to still be reading her books, but I just can't help myself.
Prey is a very intense, exciting, erotic book. Something that happens not very often but does happen in this world we live in. Ryan is a freshman in high school who is just a regular dude in high school not really interested in classes except one. His History class where he has a new young beautiful teacher, Named Ms. Settles. Lori Settles, they end up very close, closer then a student and a teacher should be in any way.
This book is written in the perspective of Ryan, Lori and Ryans Best ...more
This book is written in the perspective of Ryan, Lori and Ryans Best ...more
McDaniel does an excellent job detailing the lurid affair between a young female teacher and her "prey," her freshman student. With alternating chapters between the boy, the teacher, and the boy's girl friend, the reader gets a sense of everyone's culpability. You also learn how it all unraveled in the end. Disappointingly, you only get a short section at the end to tie up the loose ends about what happened to the teacher and her student, but it is summed up from a student's mother who...more
I could tell right away that it wasn't a typical book for Lurlene McDaniel. This one is about a young teacher, Ms. Settles, who starts up a relationship with one of her 15 year old students. Hm. And it is told from the point of view of the boy, Ryan, the girl who likes him, Honey, and the teacher. Interesting story, but the teacher wierded me out because I could tell right away from her points of view that she was 'scouting' for someone. I really did enjoy seeing what would happen. Although it i...more
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Given my mild obsession with strange and different lifestyles, I had to snag this book just to see what it was about. The basic summary is about a 30 something female teacher that hooks up with a 15 year old male student.
I was surprised at how real this story was. It didn't sugarcoat the affair, and described it in a way that wasn't "over the top," but definitely didn't leave out the bedroom scenes either.
What really struck a chord with me was the back and for...more
I was surprised at how real this story was. It didn't sugarcoat the affair, and described it in a way that wasn't "over the top," but definitely didn't leave out the bedroom scenes either.
What really struck a chord with me was the back and for...more
Kimberly
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W.O.W. that was my first reaction after reading this book. The author has really evolved in her writing. The topics she's choosing the last few years seems to mirror the changes in the things that teens face in this ever changing world.
This book is told from the POV of three characters, Ryan, Lori (his teacher) and Honey his friend. It seems to me that she is using this style more and more in her newer books and I enjoy it because we get a feel for the other characters from th...more
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