Degrees of Betrayal: Ryun's Story

by Jeff Nesbit

When Sierra lands in the hospital following a car accident, she thinks it's her own fault. What she doesn't know is that her two friends, Ryun and Kenzie, are about to let her take the fall for their mistakes. When she discovers their betrayal, Sierra is out for revenge. Join these three friends as they experience the sting of betrayal, the treachery of deceit, and the wonder of true forgiveness. Read all three friends' stories to get each one's perspective in this exciting new trilogy from thirsty(?).

Genres: Young Adult

320 pages, Paperback

First published June 7, 2004

About the author

JEFF NESBIT was the director of public affairs for two federal science agencies. He was once profiled in The Wall Street Journal as one of the seven people who ended the Tobacco Wars. He was also a national journalist, communications director for former Vice President Quayle, and the director of a Washington, DC-based strategic communications business. Now the executive director of Climate Nexus, he is also a contributing writer to The New York Times, Time, U.S. News & World Report and Axios. He lives in New York and San Francisco.

His new book, THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS, from St. Martin's Press will be available Sept. 25, 2018. Bill McKibben calls it a "touchstone book for understanding the world we're daily creating." Senator John Kerry says it is an "enlightening - and alarming - explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today." Sierra Club leader Michael Brune said the book "challenges us to save not just our world but our humanity.:"

Nesbit's previous book with St. Martin's Press, POISON TEA, was well-received by critics. The New York Times called it a "refresher course in Civics 101." Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Kobert said: "Poison Tea is compelling, richly reported, and utterly chilling."

In addition to his non-fiction work, Nesbit has also written more than 20 inspirational novels with Tyndale, Zondervan, Thomas Nelson, Guideposts, Summerside Press, David C. Cook, Hodder & Stoughton, Harold Shaw (part of Random House) and Victor Books. His latest fiction series, with New York Times best-selling author Dr. Kevin Leman, is the Worthington Destiny series.

In Washington, he was a senior public affairs official in the U.S. Senate and federal agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration; a national journalist with Knight-Ridder and others; head of a strategic communications consulting firm for more than a decade; director of communications for former Vice President Dan Quayle at the White house; and the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation from 2006-2011.

Reviews

[Katt Hansen · Rating 2 out of 5]

I hate to admit to this but I never liked Ryun at all. While I realize that he needed to be something of a jerk initially so that he could grow and change as the story moved along, I never felt he actually did either. There wasn't much redeeming to him at all except the fact that he was a good brother to Joon. The rest? No. Didn't impress me. The story dragged on, while Ryun kept making the same mistakes and everyone tried to steer him back onto the right path. What I hated was that that final push for him to change wasn't much of a push at all, yet he suddenly became a whole new person within the last 30 pages.

Sierra and Kenzie were both too flat for the most part, cardboard to Ryun's character (which I will admit was fleshed out beautifully. He really felt like a real person to me by the end of the book. Just not one I liked or wanted to see succeed.) While I understand that it might in part be because each girl gets her own book in the series and her chance for center stage, neither of the were likable enough for me to care about their points of view. I wonder how I would have felt if I'd read Sierra's story first, as was intended.

So this is a no, the book just didn't do it for me. I hate to say it, but I had the other books in this series and had picked up this one by chance to read first. Now I'm not even going to bother with the rest.

[Jerry (Rebel With a Massive Media Library) · Rating 3 out of 5]

My review of the entire trilogy is available here:

http://rwlreviews.blogspot.com/2014/0...

(Why did Ryun have to bash Disney shows? Plenty of perfectly intelligent people watch the Mouse network!)

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 or 4

[The Third Place A Teen Library]

F DEG dob bk. 2

[Michelle Chase]

Great book! Just as good as the first! Now I have to read the last book.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fabulous

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

#121
Borrowed from library.

FS:

LS:

[Jk]

i didnt read it boring