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Love You to Death
Love so strong it kills...
The four of them began to scream and throw themselves around in the water.
Dancing, he thought.
They look like they're dancing.
Hey, they're good.
Finally they fell back into the water. He circled the tub, pushing their heads under the water, just to make sure. He took one long, last look.
The four of them began to scream and throw themselves around in the water.
Dancing, he thought.
They look like they're dancing.
Hey, they're good.
Finally they fell back into the water. He circled the tub, pushing their heads under the water, just to make sure. He took one long, last look.
217 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1994
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April 29, 2023
This is pretty much Mean Girls, but if Aaron Samuels was a legit psycho-from-a-psycho-ward instead of a non-mathlete whose hair looks sexy pushed back.
March 12, 2023
New hot guy in town is mysterious, brooding, and hot. Did I mention he's hot? Only problem is, he flies into a violent rage of jealousy when his girl Julie so much as glances at another guy. Lather, rinse, repeat for about 75% of the book. A few deaths peppered in to keep your interest, but all the good stuff happens off camera.
I always love Bebe's writing but this one was a bit of a downer, with our protag Julie basically an emotionally battered woman putting up with this psycho. Oh and there's a traumatic pet death, which is always a total triggering bummer 😭
I always love Bebe's writing but this one was a bit of a downer, with our protag Julie basically an emotionally battered woman putting up with this psycho. Oh and there's a traumatic pet death, which is always a total triggering bummer 😭
February 6, 2024
Right, that's it.
I'm making a promise to myself that I'll finally read aaalllll of the Nightmares series.
They're so dramatic!
I'm making a promise to myself that I'll finally read aaalllll of the Nightmares series.
They're so dramatic!
February 6, 2023
Who would have known that I could enjoy a book I found in the clearance part of Half Price Books where the cover literally came off in my hands?
It was a dollar...I got to buy it for 50 cents.
Never judge a book by its cover or lack of one I guess.
This was almost like a made for TV movie that you see based on a true story yet I hope some of the violence in this book didn't really happen to anyone.
Julie Hagen moved to town in the eighth grade and got taken in by the three most popular girls in school. Tara Braxton's ancestors settled the town of Braxton Falls and she plays up the rich southern belle routine. Her friends Jessica and Shelly hang on her every word and all of the boys want to date Tara.
Julie doesn't really like how shallow her friends can be but they do have fun sometimes. Julie would rather go shopping or have pizza parties but the other girls would rather find a hunk and take him up to the point to make out. Popular boy Brad flirts with Julie but he isn't her type...he's a dumb jock who jokes around too much.
The day the new guy in school shows up is when everything changes.
He's eighteen but appears much older with his dark hair, dark eyes, rugged features and the scar across his lips. Rumors are that he is an orphan, rumors are that he moved away for awhile and came back but what isn't a rumor is that his name is Quinn McNeal.
Julie feels Quinn looking at her but dismisses it that he has his eyes on Tara...it's just the normal thing to be attracted to the most popular girl. Julie can't deny that the next time she sees Quinn though...his eyes are only on her.
Tara calls dibs on Quinn even though she has attractive Nick Wells on her arm and Jessica and Shelly already have boyfriends so they are very Tara-Quinn shipping. This seems to be more for Julie and any other girl to back off.
We get to see some of the story from Quinn's POV and find that he is drawn to Julie. Her amber eyes and corresponding hair, her skin, her shyness all appeal to him and he is gone on working up the right time to tell Julie he is in love with her.
Everything seems to be too good to be true doesn't it?
Quinn has secrets of his own that he doesn't want to share with Julie...she is to be his new beginning. No more thinking about his father, no more thinking about how he was sent to "The Place" and no more thinking about the girl that drove him there...no more thinking about Alison.
Julie is soon shunned by her so called friends when Quinn finally makes his feelings known and it doesn't really bother Julie. What starts to bother her is the possessive jealousy Quinn starts to display towards any other boy who looks her way...it is beyond normal.
It's as if another person is hidden behind those dark blue almost black eyes and, in truth, there is for it is someone created by a life of darkness.
Can Julie be the light to free Quinn from his bleak past or will his adoration bury her...to death?
It is very hard not to spoil this book but you can probably guess that it won't end very well.
I also must make it clear that I do not condone mental or physical abuse in any relationship between anyone but I don't think that you should ignore how a person comes to be the way they are.
Traumatic childhoods, tormenting bullies, broken homes, social standings, the cruel politics of high school...they all play parts in this book and in the real world as most of us can sadly relate.
Tara and her mean girl clique are familiar and nasty but most of the males don't seem to be that awful. I like Julie's relationship with her younger sister Mollie, who is pretty smart and a whole lot more deserving of kindness.
Quinn also has this nice side and a soft spot for animals so I believe that an incident that happens later is what makes the stuff that follows so damn painful...
I was horrified and shocked as we got toward the climax. There are no twists or reveals to anything we didn't know but that ending was gut-wrenching.
Somber and bittersweet but realistic about moving on from a painful and equally terrifying experience.
If you find a copy of this book, I recommend reading it.
It was a dollar...I got to buy it for 50 cents.
Never judge a book by its cover or lack of one I guess.
This was almost like a made for TV movie that you see based on a true story yet I hope some of the violence in this book didn't really happen to anyone.
Julie Hagen moved to town in the eighth grade and got taken in by the three most popular girls in school. Tara Braxton's ancestors settled the town of Braxton Falls and she plays up the rich southern belle routine. Her friends Jessica and Shelly hang on her every word and all of the boys want to date Tara.
Julie doesn't really like how shallow her friends can be but they do have fun sometimes. Julie would rather go shopping or have pizza parties but the other girls would rather find a hunk and take him up to the point to make out. Popular boy Brad flirts with Julie but he isn't her type...he's a dumb jock who jokes around too much.
The day the new guy in school shows up is when everything changes.
He's eighteen but appears much older with his dark hair, dark eyes, rugged features and the scar across his lips. Rumors are that he is an orphan, rumors are that he moved away for awhile and came back but what isn't a rumor is that his name is Quinn McNeal.
Julie feels Quinn looking at her but dismisses it that he has his eyes on Tara...it's just the normal thing to be attracted to the most popular girl. Julie can't deny that the next time she sees Quinn though...his eyes are only on her.
Tara calls dibs on Quinn even though she has attractive Nick Wells on her arm and Jessica and Shelly already have boyfriends so they are very Tara-Quinn shipping. This seems to be more for Julie and any other girl to back off.
We get to see some of the story from Quinn's POV and find that he is drawn to Julie. Her amber eyes and corresponding hair, her skin, her shyness all appeal to him and he is gone on working up the right time to tell Julie he is in love with her.
Everything seems to be too good to be true doesn't it?
Quinn has secrets of his own that he doesn't want to share with Julie...she is to be his new beginning. No more thinking about his father, no more thinking about how he was sent to "The Place" and no more thinking about the girl that drove him there...no more thinking about Alison.
Julie is soon shunned by her so called friends when Quinn finally makes his feelings known and it doesn't really bother Julie. What starts to bother her is the possessive jealousy Quinn starts to display towards any other boy who looks her way...it is beyond normal.
It's as if another person is hidden behind those dark blue almost black eyes and, in truth, there is for it is someone created by a life of darkness.
Can Julie be the light to free Quinn from his bleak past or will his adoration bury her...to death?
It is very hard not to spoil this book but you can probably guess that it won't end very well.
I also must make it clear that I do not condone mental or physical abuse in any relationship between anyone but I don't think that you should ignore how a person comes to be the way they are.
Traumatic childhoods, tormenting bullies, broken homes, social standings, the cruel politics of high school...they all play parts in this book and in the real world as most of us can sadly relate.
Tara and her mean girl clique are familiar and nasty but most of the males don't seem to be that awful. I like Julie's relationship with her younger sister Mollie, who is pretty smart and a whole lot more deserving of kindness.
Quinn also has this nice side and a soft spot for animals so I believe that an incident that happens later is what makes the stuff that follows so damn painful...
I was horrified and shocked as we got toward the climax. There are no twists or reveals to anything we didn't know but that ending was gut-wrenching.
Somber and bittersweet but realistic about moving on from a painful and equally terrifying experience.
If you find a copy of this book, I recommend reading it.
March 1, 2021
Such a thriller!!! I read this book in one night it was so good! Although it was very predictable, it was supposed to be, so that was okay. The ending was perfect!
January 18, 2011
This was a great book the antagonist was really well sort of like me the jealous anger problem type. The only thing I didnt like was the ending could have been much better!
April 2, 2024
read this in a day! it's a book you can't put down one of my favourite books! have read it several times since and still gets me every time wish I could give it more than 5 stars
February 23, 2026
I didn't realise that I had read this before in 1994 until I picked this up again over 30 years later. I had a brief flirtation with a few of the Nightmares series before I switched to Christopher Pike as a teen. I loved revisiting this, its a great book. It is so quick to read I flew through it.
Julie our fmc is in the popular crowd at high school until new boy Quinn takes a shine to her and the ringleader of the mean girl gang Tara turns against Julie, because she wants dark and handsome Quinn for herself.
This is definitely a cautionary tale against dating the wrong sort of guy. Quinn screams red flags from his love bombing to his lies and crow bar waving. Julie needs to run for the hills, but my goodness isn't he handsome?? I think more books like this should be out there for young girls to read. Trigger warnings can go in the bin. We need to read truths!
Julie our fmc is in the popular crowd at high school until new boy Quinn takes a shine to her and the ringleader of the mean girl gang Tara turns against Julie, because she wants dark and handsome Quinn for herself.
This is definitely a cautionary tale against dating the wrong sort of guy. Quinn screams red flags from his love bombing to his lies and crow bar waving. Julie needs to run for the hills, but my goodness isn't he handsome?? I think more books like this should be out there for young girls to read. Trigger warnings can go in the bin. We need to read truths!
February 15, 2026
Julie notices new boy Quinn in the cafeteria and instantly falls for him even though her friend Tara has already staked her claim.
Quinn only has eyes for Julie and as their relationship intensifies he isolates her from her friends. But his violent jealousy and paranoia soon start to scare her, his well does she really know Quinn McNeill?
I am not a fan of instalove and in this instance he is psycho and she is stupid 🤣 Some juicy deaths liven things up but the constant intense smouldering gets tiresome very quickly. The ending made me laugh out loud, a very strange reaction to a deadly situation.
A story of stupidity and obsession, it was ok.
Quinn only has eyes for Julie and as their relationship intensifies he isolates her from her friends. But his violent jealousy and paranoia soon start to scare her, his well does she really know Quinn McNeill?
I am not a fan of instalove and in this instance he is psycho and she is stupid 🤣 Some juicy deaths liven things up but the constant intense smouldering gets tiresome very quickly. The ending made me laugh out loud, a very strange reaction to a deadly situation.
A story of stupidity and obsession, it was ok.
September 26, 2024
She had to have known that he was violent. He put his hands on her a few times in less than loving ways. He was overly jealous of anyone Julie talked to; male or female. I think he overreacted to Tara running over his cat. We won't ever know if Tara hit the cat on purpose or not, but it wasn't something he should have killed her over.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 24, 2025
it sure was something, just a bit sad they didn’t end up together 😕
Quinn would treat her good, if only he wasn’t a stalker and shi…
Quinn would treat her good, if only he wasn’t a stalker and shi…
September 15, 2015
While the premise isn't original, I think the story's chilling as it paints a picture of what it's like to be with an obsessive/abusive lover. Because of it is, the story's a drama with Julie struggling with her violent boyfriend but it's also slasher as her boyfriend secretly kills people. The book is interesting because of that and it keeps me on toes whenever Quinn gets mad.
As for the characters, Julie's sympathetic because of her relationship and how here friends turn out to be shallow and end their friendship that I do want to see her succeed at the end.
Quinn's really sympathetic as well and not some bad guy I want him to die because of his backstory later on.
It's definitely worth a read if you're into romantic horror.
As for the characters, Julie's sympathetic because of her relationship and how here friends turn out to be shallow and end their friendship that I do want to see her succeed at the end.
Quinn's really sympathetic as well and not some bad guy I want him to die because of his backstory later on.
It's definitely worth a read if you're into romantic horror.
October 8, 2024
For a YA book this was pretty intense dealing with obsessive behaviour from a partner. It also deals with mental health. I thought it was well written though the main female was a bit of a weed. Very similar to point horror books. I will definitely read more of the nightmare books
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