Delicate Monsters

234 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2015 by St. Martin's Press.

ISBN:
978-1-250-06384-7
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When nearly killing a classmate gets seventeen-year-old Sadie Su kicked out of her third boarding school in four years, she returns to her family s California vineyard estate. Here, she s meant to stay out of trouble. Here, she s meant to do a lot of things. But it s hard. She s bored. And when Sadie s bored, the only thing she likes is trouble.

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[cw self-harm]

1) "'I tried to kill somebody,' Sadie said softly, and Chad laughed in a way that made her want to strangle him. He laughed like he didn't believe her.
'Yeah, me too.' Cigarette gripped between teeth and lips, he held his bare wrists up in the moonlight so that she could see the scars there, jagged pink lines that resembled streaks of lightning flashing across the morning sky.
'That's not what I meant,' Sadie said, although this was partially a lie. She did mean it that way, but she meant it another way, too, and she wanted Chad to understand that. She wanted him to know that she was both worse and different than him, different than everyone here, with their sadness and their anger and all their messy needs. It was bad enough, her rubbing against him like she had, taking what she wanted, just because …

Subjects

  • Secrets
  • Mental illness
  • Psychopaths
  • Sexual abuse
  • Fiction