Why are they giving kids things that they ‘need’ and asking for these awful tasks to be done. The question that we’re forced to ask is who is behind NEED and what’s their real motivation.

In some cases it leads to murder and death, in some cases it leads to just destruction and fear. Through the process of this story – we see how Kaylee’s interactions with everyone manifests, and we see how everyone else in town is willing to do whatever they are told without real question – even if they wonder what the consequence will be. So nate gets Kaylee to join, and her ‘need’ is an actual need – to find a kidney for her brother who’s sick and as a result, she’s not asked to fulfill a task since it’s an actual NEED. The issue of course though is that once everyone in the school has been invited and has joined, the ante is upped and there are more severe requests to be fulfilled to get what you need. Nate’s brother got a new phone, and that’s all the prompting that Nate needs to get on the bandwagon. To back up – her best friend Nate is over at her house one night and introduces her to a website that he found from his brother Jack – this site asks you what you think you need and in return the initial ask is just to invite friends. The interesting thing here that is part of it all is that Kaylee – our main character – she’s truly the only one who’s submitted a request for a ‘NEED’ and not a want. In this book, each chapter is a different character’s story – granted there are maybe 10 characters that we follow so the chapters alternate as we get their stories on how they are fulfilling their tasks to get what they feel they ‘need’. Like the summary above says, the question that’s being posed really is what will get teens to act, do they know the difference between a want and a need and what lengths will they go to fulfill those? In this chilling YA thriller, the author of the best-selling Testing trilogy examines not only the dark side of social media, but the dark side of human nature.įirst off – i love Joelle Charbonneau – after reading The Testing series i fell in love with her take on dystopia and this new book (series maybe?) is right up my alley. Soon the site turns sinister, with simple pranks escalating to malicious crimes. Teenagers at Wisconsin’s Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need. Publisher/Year: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 11/03/15

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