“One, two, three, four… four… Shit.”

6. Ten – Gretchen McNeil

So you want to hang out on an island with some other teens and be part of the cool kids and get killed off in an orderly fashion? Well, okay then. Go for it.

In the tradition of And Then There Were None, and because it’s fun, setting up these teens to be killed off one by one is what happens and they scramble around a lot trying to figure out how to get off the island during this major storm that just popped up and of course since this is a thoroughly modern novel there has to be an explanation of having no reception for their phones, and if you like this sort of novel this is a quite fine example. It’s not bogged down in trying to reinvent the wheel or the story tropes as they may be, it’s just an easy read doing what this kind of orderly kill off novel is supposed to do.

 

Horace and Pere demonstrate what they’re supposed to do as guinea pig friends – relax, but not while touching, just close enough to nip each other if needed for warning or annoyance.