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...
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Aug 31, 2011
Jude
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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.
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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.
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Jun 13, 2011
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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..
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Sep 27, 2011
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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 h 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 h More...
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May 07, 2011
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Feb 03, 2011
Brandi
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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 horrib More...
The tagline had me questioning everything that happened, just wanting to figure out what is going on. I am horrib More...
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Apr 26, 2011
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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 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 More...
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Jun 30, 2011
When I finished this book, wow. I just kind of sat there and thought about it. I love when books do that! I kind of predicted the ending, but I loved watching it unravel itself. There were a lot of things I wasn’t expecting at all along the way and I literally gasped at a couple parts. This book isn’t scary in the horror sense. It is a thriller/mystery and some parts are definitely creepy, even though there isn’t anything paranormal about it. I think it would make a great movie. But the movie wo
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Dec 16, 2011
J.Elle
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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
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Dec 06, 2011
Christina
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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 con
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Nov 18, 2011
Brighton
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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
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Sep 11, 2011
Lynnea
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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 bes More...
Aug 16, 2011
Lexy
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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.
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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.
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Aug 05, 2011
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Aug 01, 2011
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Jun 11, 2011
Deltay
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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.
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May 24, 2011
Rein
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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 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 More...
Apr 19, 2011
Alexa
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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
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Apr 15, 2011
Chalse
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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 wh 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 wh More...
Apr 10, 2011
Cara
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Let me just say that I had minimal expectations for this book. In fact, I only bought it because it appeared to be about an alienated sixteen-year-old named Cara who missed her best friend. By God, we're practically the same person! At least that was what I thought when I started the book. When I reached the end, I was too baffled by what I'd just read to think of just how different we were.
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Cara is your average lonely, alienated victim of bullying. She eats lunch with More...
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Mar 25, 2011
Cara is a seventeen year old normal girl, who runs track and gets to hang out with the cool-kids at school, but somehow ends up being the butt of all jokes when it comes to her so-called friends. After a mishap in the cafeteria with some baby carrots, Cara accidentally chokes on one of them and Ethan (her crush) saves her life by giving her the Heimlich.
Cara's childhood best friend Zoe comes to visit her (she's run away from home) and asks to hide out in her bedroom for awhile. Sinc More...
Cara's childhood best friend Zoe comes to visit her (she's run away from home) and asks to hide out in her bedroom for awhile. Sinc More...
Mar 23, 2011
Theresa
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Cara is not very popular at her school, infact, since she moved seven years ago from her best friend, Zoe, she is a complete outsider. She only sits by a few girls in lunch becuase she is in Track as well, but no one pays attention to, and if they do, then it is never good. One day she is sitting in the school cafetiria, as she starts chocking on a baby carrot. No one seems to even have noticed, untill a boy, Ethan, safves her. Ethan is one of the most popular boys in school and of course his gi
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Mar 19, 2011
Emily
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Wow. Just...wow. I could have rated this book anything. The plot is intense enough on its own, but has several subplots, and an ending that completely shocked me. And I do mean COMPLETELY. As in, you should read the book again with that perspective and look back on everything that seems obvious now that you missed the first time.
Cara and Zoe are best friends. Zoe runs away from her home, and Cara is delighted to see her after so many years. Zoe decides she's going to hide out in Cara's roo More...
Cara and Zoe are best friends. Zoe runs away from her home, and Cara is delighted to see her after so many years. Zoe decides she's going to hide out in Cara's roo More...
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Feb 24, 2011
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Choker is one of those books that was mentally exhausting. I knew that something wasn't right from chapter one so I began to formulate opinions about the main characters. I had several hunches that I felt could be right and begin to not only read for pleasure, but to scour the text for clues. I love psychological thrillers that make you have to work for the twists and turns. Choker certainly delivers on that aspect. In the end, I turned out t More...
Choker is one of those books that was mentally exhausting. I knew that something wasn't right from chapter one so I began to formulate opinions about the main characters. I had several hunches that I felt could be right and begin to not only read for pleasure, but to scour the text for clues. I love psychological thrillers that make you have to work for the twists and turns. Choker certainly delivers on that aspect. In the end, I turned out t More...
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Feb 19, 2011
cecilia
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Wow. Just WOW. choker filled me with an unexpected yet delightful horror that I am still reeling from the shocking - just SHOCKING - ending! Holy fudge sundae, I get to know a book for the first 2/3 of the story, only to get sucker-punched with no real warning! Not cool - and yet I loved it! :)
I could totally relate to Cara with my fair share of humiliating high school memories, although I never had to endure any Mean Girls treatment (thank goodness!). No, but I can sympathize wit More...
I could totally relate to Cara with my fair share of humiliating high school memories, although I never had to endure any Mean Girls treatment (thank goodness!). No, but I can sympathize wit More...
Feb 18, 2011
Basma
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I was really excited when I got this book in the mail and by excited I mean I jumped up and down for 5 mintues. It was my first read for 2011 debut author challenge hosted by Story Siren. I was part of the 2010 challenge and it was so much fun. 2010 debut authors gave me the confidence to look forward for 2011 debut authors.
Lets put it out there. I didn’t like this book, except for the ending.
There was no depth in the characters or the plot. I felt Cara wa More...
I was really excited when I got this book in the mail and by excited I mean I jumped up and down for 5 mintues. It was my first read for 2011 debut author challenge hosted by Story Siren. I was part of the 2010 challenge and it was so much fun. 2010 debut authors gave me the confidence to look forward for 2011 debut authors.
Lets put it out there. I didn’t like this book, except for the ending.
There was no depth in the characters or the plot. I felt Cara wa More...
Jan 14, 2011
Joni
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I first became aware of this book when I ran across it on a blog and it sounded amazing. Basically, Cara moved away from her best friend Zoe in the fifth grade and she is bullied constantly at her new school. Then Zoe shows up at her house unexpectedly one night and suddenly everything changes. Cara starts getting invited to parties and she starts getting attention from Ethan, the boy she has been crushing on for years. But girls from school start dying and Zoe starts acting odd. Cara starts to
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Jan 06, 2011
Jackie
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Cara is a loner who exists at the edges of her high school. She eats lunch with the track team, but no one talks to her. She pines for a boy who doesn't notice her at all. And she's the brunt of some ugly teasing from the popular girls. But things change when Zoe, Cara's best friend from early childhood whom she lost touch with after Cara's family moved away, shows up one day in her bedroom. She's run away after doing "something bad", and she asks Cara to hide her for awhile. Car
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Jan 04, 2011
Crystal
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Trying to write a review for this book is difficult. Not because it's bad, no it's absolutely wonderful, but I don't want to give anything away. Choker is an amazing debut novel from writer Elizabeth Woods. It takes you the reader to the heart of bullying. What it is like to be the one that is bullied. It doesn't matter that you have money or live next door to one of the most popular girls at school or even if your parents are friends with all the popular people's parents, you can still
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Dec 28, 2010
Karen
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Choker is all about Cara, a girl who lives on the fringes and Zoe, her best friend. Cara is shy and awkward, clearly not comfortable in her own skin, while Zoe is wild and daring. When Cara is younger her parents decide to move and she has to leave Zoe behind. One day after enduring another day of relentless bullying from the mean girls at her school, Cara comes home to find Zoe waiting for her. Claiming she ran away from home Zoe asks if she can stay for awhile and Cara happily agrees. At first
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Dec 10, 2010
Debbie
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This book was disturbing and has some what of a plot twist at the end that I guessed at about halfway through the book but still it was a gripping tale that had me to the end. Cara has a huge crush on Ethan, one of the most popular guys in school but unfortunately he is dating Alexis, an obnoxious girl who picks on Cara after she ends up choking on a carrot. Alexis and her friends start making fun of Cara and calling her Choker. Just when Cara thinks she can't handle the misery any more her ch
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