Spring 2005 Review:

        The Party Room: Get it Started is the first in a series of books by author Morgan Burke. This is a book about a girl named Kirsten who is trying to solve the mysterious and brutal murder of her best friend Sam. At the beginning, Sam is seen leaving the party room (a night club) with a strange red headed man that no one has seen before. Sam soon is missing and is found about a week later dead . . . with a Talcott tie binding her hands together. This leads to a connection between this murder and a murder that occurred at Talcott, a prep school on the other side of town, a few years back. Now Kirsten must find out who killed her best friend. As she begins her search, she meets a man named Kyle who helps her in her quest…only to discover that he is the man who they convicted of murdering the Talcott girl. He claims he is being framed for everything that is going on and he wants Kirsten to give him an alibi. Now Kirsten must choose to either believe Kyle or to stay away from him. A very fast paced book that keeps you in suspense the entire time. 

        This is a book that would suit kids grades 9-12. It is a fast paced, heart stopping book, one that should be read by kids 15 or up and aren’t afraid of the dark. This book will creep you out. It throws many twists and turns at you so that you end up not trusting anyone except Kirsten in the book. Kirsten sticks out her neck a little too far sometimes in this book, which leads me to believe that she will be dead by the end of the series. The plot thickens as the book moves along. It is one of the best I have read in a long time. I can’t wait for the next one in the series to come out. 

~ Vincent Calautti, grade 9, Boardman High School

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