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Choker
Sixteen-year-old Cara Lange has been a loner ever since she moved away from her best and only friend, Zoe, years ago. She eats lunch with the other girls from the track team, but they're not really her friends. Mostly she spends her time watching Ethan Gray from a distance, wishing he would finally notice her, and avoiding the popular girls who call her "Choker" after a hu...more
Hardcover, 233 pages
Published
January 4th 2011
by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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WOW. Just Wow. I’m in SHOCK. I have GOOSEBUMPS. There are SHIVERS traveling down my spine. This was just plain CREEPY. And HOLLY starts with S and ends it HIT!!! O.O
This is the best creepiest, mysterious and creepy – yes I said creepy twice – Book I’ve ever read in my LIFE! – it’s the first book I read in its genre… who cares! – Now I’ll stop gushing and begin my review.
When I read the summary of Choker I thought I already knew how things were going to end up. Once I actually started reading, I...more
This is the best creepiest, mysterious and creepy – yes I said creepy twice – Book I’ve ever read in my LIFE! – it’s the first book I read in its genre… who cares! – Now I’ll stop gushing and begin my review.
When I read the summary of Choker I thought I already knew how things were going to end up. Once I actually started reading, I...more
Not exactly sure what I expected after reading the synopsis.... but I didn't expect what I got.
If I had to use one word to describe Choker it would be creepy. The kind creepy where you have goosebumps all over because you feel like someone or something is watching you. Yeah, Choker was like that.
My favorite thing about this novel was the plot. It was simple, yet intense with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing. Despite the mere size of the novel with it's two-hundred some pag...more
If I had to use one word to describe Choker it would be creepy. The kind creepy where you have goosebumps all over because you feel like someone or something is watching you. Yeah, Choker was like that.
My favorite thing about this novel was the plot. It was simple, yet intense with plenty of twists and turns to keep the reader guessing. Despite the mere size of the novel with it's two-hundred some pag...more
OMG OMG OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS.
YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND.
THIS BOOK WAS SO INSANE I CANT COMPOSE MYSELF.
IT WAS GREAT.
YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW.
YOU DON'T EVEN UNDERSTAND.
THIS BOOK WAS SO INSANE I CANT COMPOSE MYSELF.
IT WAS GREAT.
I am on the fence as far as my opinion of Choker by Elizabeth Woods goes. Choker is one of those books that you pick up, finish in about 2 hours, and then think to yourself, what the heck just happened here.
We open with a prologue of main character Cara playing with her best friend Zoe. We see Zoe as kind of a loose cannon who dares Cara to take some depression/’zombie’ pills that Zoe’s mother has. Then we flash forward to the future. Cara is living in a new neighborhood. She’s having social tro...more
We open with a prologue of main character Cara playing with her best friend Zoe. We see Zoe as kind of a loose cannon who dares Cara to take some depression/’zombie’ pills that Zoe’s mother has. Then we flash forward to the future. Cara is living in a new neighborhood. She’s having social tro...more
I'm not going to lie, this book kind of scared me a little!
Although the plot was quite predictable,(I had already guessed what was going to happen come the end) it was still an enjoyable read and the fact that I had guessed what was going to happen almost made me anxious for the ending. The build up to the big twist at the end was incredible and the detail in such a short novel was expertly refined to give the reader the perfect amount of information.
If you haven't read this novel I strongly rec...more
Although the plot was quite predictable,(I had already guessed what was going to happen come the end) it was still an enjoyable read and the fact that I had guessed what was going to happen almost made me anxious for the ending. The build up to the big twist at the end was incredible and the detail in such a short novel was expertly refined to give the reader the perfect amount of information.
If you haven't read this novel I strongly rec...more
Let me start out by saying that I had no idea what to expect from this book, and I was seriously surprised with what I got...in a good way! This book starts out as any other YA book, painting a picture perfect scene of your typical high school. Enter Cara, a normal teenager who tends to have trouble being herself around her classmates and tends to get teased by the most popular girls at school. Cara moved away from her best friend, Zoe, in elementary school and still can`t seem to deal with it.....more
Oh my god...this book gave me the chills. It took awhile to get into this but after page 50 it started to pick up.
I gave it 3 stars because it wasn't that great but it wasn't bad either. Well technically 2 stars, 1 star is for the lovely cover :)
Meet cara, she gets picked on a lot at school, especially when she chokes on her lunch at school. Two girls named sydney and alexis nickname her "choker". Cara goes home one day to find her old best friend, zoe waiting for her on her bed. (Zoe moved awa...more
I gave it 3 stars because it wasn't that great but it wasn't bad either. Well technically 2 stars, 1 star is for the lovely cover :)
Meet cara, she gets picked on a lot at school, especially when she chokes on her lunch at school. Two girls named sydney and alexis nickname her "choker". Cara goes home one day to find her old best friend, zoe waiting for her on her bed. (Zoe moved awa...more
The first chapter sets up the high school world as I remember it perfectly. Nearly hellish. My heart went out to Cara as she is a loner, and there are bullies who thrive on her pain. It is sad to read about her absent parents and even though it is a trend in YA, it is also a reality. I hate seeing the resigned acceptance, it is almost worse than the acting out for attention.
The tagline had me questioning everything that happened, just wanting to figure out what is going on. I am horrible at my...more
The tagline had me questioning everything that happened, just wanting to figure out what is going on. I am horrible at my...more
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There is no way I can write this review without having some spoilers. So you have been warned. Read further at your own risk.
Cara is a girl nobody has paid much attention to since she moved to this new town full of fresh starts and new opportunities. But she doesn’t see this in that optimistic fashion, and therefore does not seem to make a huge effort to make any new friends. She is pretty much invisible until she gets dis...more
There is no way I can write this review without having some spoilers. So you have been warned. Read further at your own risk.
Cara is a girl nobody has paid much attention to since she moved to this new town full of fresh starts and new opportunities. But she doesn’t see this in that optimistic fashion, and therefore does not seem to make a huge effort to make any new friends. She is pretty much invisible until she gets dis...more
Don’t let the pretty pink color and swirly font and silhouetted flowers on the cover of Choker by Elizabeth Woods fool you. It may look like a sweet, girly book. But lurking beneath that lovely cover lies a twisted thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat right up to the very last page.
What Woods excels at best in Choker is building the dramatic tension. There’s almost a thread or a pulse of tension that is drawn throughout the entire novel, building quietly but surely. On the surfac...more
What Woods excels at best in Choker is building the dramatic tension. There’s almost a thread or a pulse of tension that is drawn throughout the entire novel, building quietly but surely. On the surfac...more
Freaking what.
Honestly, that was just such an insane read, even though I suspected how it would end about 30 pages in, when I thought to myself (view spoiler) But still, I found this book creepy, mysterious, and haunting.
I found myself gasping at certain parts, my heart beating fast. I honestly felt like I was watching a horror movie at one part, I was a bit nervous!
I'm so glad I picked up this book a...more
Honestly, that was just such an insane read, even though I suspected how it would end about 30 pages in, when I thought to myself (view spoiler) But still, I found this book creepy, mysterious, and haunting.
I found myself gasping at certain parts, my heart beating fast. I honestly felt like I was watching a horror movie at one part, I was a bit nervous!
I'm so glad I picked up this book a...more
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This is the last time I ever take a book at face value. By reading the description, I was all ready intrigued, and I would have been fine if that's all the book was. But it ended up being so much more, more than I ever could have asked for. Choker was seriously creepy, too intense, edge of your seat, and one of the best I've read in a while.
Everything starts out fine: it seems like your typical high school book, where the loner girl has a crush on the jock-type. But as soon as Cara gets home af...more
Everything starts out fine: it seems like your typical high school book, where the loner girl has a crush on the jock-type. But as soon as Cara gets home af...more
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I was so disappointed by this book. I don't see how other people didn't find it to be awful! I brought it after reading the description on amazon in the hope it may be like Pretty Little Liars or The Lying Game! It wasn't.
I guessed the twist at the end about 6 chapters in, and kept reading in the hope that I was wrong. I wasn't. I felt like Zoe was introduced too suddenly, and then it built up with what happened to the girl next door (I read the book all today, and I don't even remember her nam...more
I guessed the twist at the end about 6 chapters in, and kept reading in the hope that I was wrong. I wasn't. I felt like Zoe was introduced too suddenly, and then it built up with what happened to the girl next door (I read the book all today, and I don't even remember her nam...more
"Choker" is a debut novel written by Elizabeth Woods, and to me it had all the trademarks you usually find in first-time author's books. The writing style was hesitant and unnecessary descriptions were added nearly every page; the characters were two-dimensional and typical. I still found myself getting sucked into the story, though, a 200-page thriller with a shocking ending that leaves you shaking your head.
It was an entertaining story, no doubt; 17-year old Cara is a loner at school, until he...more
It was an entertaining story, no doubt; 17-year old Cara is a loner at school, until he...more
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Okay, so I say this a lot, but if you haven't read this book, then you should really go and read it! I loved it, and I would recommend it for pretty much anyone, even if you don't really like romance, because it's not one of the cliched romance books, it's actually really well written and the storyline is mindblowing!
Okay, so I don't want to spoil anything, so there won't be any spoilers, but I will say this about the ending:
I was able to predict the ending for the sole reason that I have a ridi...more
Okay, so I don't want to spoil anything, so there won't be any spoilers, but I will say this about the ending:
I was able to predict the ending for the sole reason that I have a ridi...more
Choker by Elizabeth Woods is a fantastic book about 16 year old Cara Lange, and her struggle through high school. Being an outcast and the main topic of the popular girls jokes couldn’t get any worse. Cara finds herself missing her old childhood friend Zoe and wishes more than anything her best friend would find her. Just as she wishes, Zoe appears in her house asking Cara to help hide her because she ran away from her home. Thrilled to have her best friend back, Cara’s life seems to change over...more
Zoe and Cara were best friends, but then Zoe moved away. Cara is lost without Zoe and has trouble navigating the pitfalls of high school without her, especially after an unfortunate choking incident in the lunchroom garners her the cruel nickname, “choker”. When Zoe shows up unexpectedly in Cara’s bedroom needing a hiding place, Cara is delighted and doesn’t question her. Zoe helps Cara make over her image, but the better Cara starts doing, the more resentful Zoe seems. Cara starts wondering why...more
Spooky, intense psychological drama. Quiet shy loner Cara doesn't have any real friends at school and is teased and called "Choker" after an embarassing public choking incident at lunch. So she is thrilled when her best friend Zoe, whom she hasn't seen since she moved away years ago, arrives and says she needs a place to stay. And could Cara not tell her parents that Zoe is there? She doesn't want to go back to her abusive home life. Cara is only too happy to oblige. Now Cara has a confidante, a...more
Woah. That's all I have to say about this book. Just, WOW. Browsing through the YA section of my library, I came across this book in the New books shelve. The cover looked pretty tame, so I checked it out and sat on one of the couches, intrigued as I read the first paragraph. And once I started to read, I couldn't stop until I reached the last word. The story is about Cara, a girl who never seems to fit in anywhere, nearly invisible at her school. Branded by the nickname "Choker" after she accid...more
Cara's family moved away from her best friend Zoe in fifth grade. Her live has been awful since then. She is on the track team but she doesn't have any friends. She has a crush, Ethan, but he is dating the queen of the mean girl club, Alexis, and those girls love to make fun of Cara. One day at lunch she is choking on a piece of her sandwich and Ethan saves her. Happiness envelopes her right before Alexis and Sydney start calling her Choker. When she goes home she finds her best friend from chil...more
4.5/5
Wow. This book blew my mind. At first this book seems very realistic and then it starts to get a little darker and then cute and then the ending just punches you in the gut. Recently I've been in this mood where I don't want to read at all, but with this book I couldn't put it down! Not only is the plot simple and easy to follow, it's very fast and it doesn't have those scenes that shouldn't be there.
The characters were pretty good. I liked Cara, but at the same time there were little thing...more
Wow. This book blew my mind. At first this book seems very realistic and then it starts to get a little darker and then cute and then the ending just punches you in the gut. Recently I've been in this mood where I don't want to read at all, but with this book I couldn't put it down! Not only is the plot simple and easy to follow, it's very fast and it doesn't have those scenes that shouldn't be there.
The characters were pretty good. I liked Cara, but at the same time there were little thing...more
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First off, how striking is the cover for Choker? The graphic design work on it is pretty cool. Now, Choker. Honestly, kind of mixed feelings about this one. When I'd first picked it up, a couple pages in was the "cafeteria scene" - and it was basically very textbook, cliche, standard "expected" cafeteria scene - described by clique and how each clique sat at specific tables, etc. And that was basically the point at which I put the book down.
A couple weeks later, bored, I ended up picking it up a...more
A couple weeks later, bored, I ended up picking it up a...more
The book was good. Even though I’m a bit disappointed because I expected it to be a little bit more suspenseful than it turned out the way it did. I guess it was just that my expectations were too much because of the beautiful cover.lols
From the very beginning, I’ve been a bit cynical and doubting on Cara’s character because how she had always been so aloof and secluded from people and had problems at home. Interestingly, the author made it sounded like she was just like an ordinary typical tee...more
From the very beginning, I’ve been a bit cynical and doubting on Cara’s character because how she had always been so aloof and secluded from people and had problems at home. Interestingly, the author made it sounded like she was just like an ordinary typical tee...more
This book was amazing. It is about 2 best friends named Zoe and Cara. Cara moves away and thinks she will never see Zoe again. That changes when one day in high school, Zoe finds Cara by climbing up her bedroom window. One day something happens to Sydney, a mean girl that Cara doesn’t like. She dies one night and the police are saying she was drunk and drowned in a pool. Then a few days later Sydney’s best friend, Alexis goes missing. Cara also doesn’t like Alexis because she is mean, and her an...more
This book was beyond crazy and I thought it to be something that I would like to read, but it turned out not to be because it ended so predictably that by the last few chapters, I was turning pages frantically screaming, "No, NO! THIS CANNOT BE THE ENDING!!!"
To no one in particular. And I was wrong, that was the way it ended.
Cara Lange is your typical, average, normal, girl of average averageness or so it appears. She supposedly has this best friend named Zoe who she left when she moved away fro...more
To no one in particular. And I was wrong, that was the way it ended.
Cara Lange is your typical, average, normal, girl of average averageness or so it appears. She supposedly has this best friend named Zoe who she left when she moved away fro...more
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Choker is Elizabeth Woods' debut novel. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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“The Ethan of her dreams had disappeared. He was just another person who was sad. She was kind of glad, actually. Dreams disappeared when you woke up. The real thing was better anyway.”
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