Helpful Score: 3
This was the best suspense I've read in quite a while! I was glued to this book from page one, and I read it every spare chance I had within the past week.
The book reminded me a lot of the Columbine Massacre and the movie "Homeroom", which was about another school shooting.
I really appreciated the pop-culture references throughout the book because it made for a fun read in addition to the suspense.
I was only slightly disappointed in the ending because I had expected something a little more clever to come out of it, however it was still an unexpected surprise.
I can't wait to share this book with others! Excellent read. :)
The book reminded me a lot of the Columbine Massacre and the movie "Homeroom", which was about another school shooting.
I really appreciated the pop-culture references throughout the book because it made for a fun read in addition to the suspense.
I was only slightly disappointed in the ending because I had expected something a little more clever to come out of it, however it was still an unexpected surprise.
I can't wait to share this book with others! Excellent read. :)
Helpful Score: 3
Although I love all of Lippman's Tess Monaghan mysteries and have read all of her books, I have to say I think this was her best book ever, by far! It was really unexpected for me, to see this kind of story from her. It wasn't even so much about "the secret" or the mystery element of it, but just her writing was really, really well-done. Each of the characters - even those who had minor parts - had developed personalities and characteristics. Even if a character only spoke once or twice, you knew about them from the perspective of one or more of the other characters, and I was able to visualize them even. And boy does it ever grab hold of the angst of going to high school - without being overly melodramatic - and the true power of friendship.
I highly recommend it!!
I highly recommend it!!
Helpful Score: 2
I rate this book 2 and 1/2 stars out of 5. It was a decent story but it was quite long-winded. Also, the ending was pretty anti-climactic. I was disappointed in how it all ended. I was hoping for something a little more exotic and exciting. Overall, it wasn't horrible but I probly won't recommend it.
Helpful Score: 1
A great thriller with a surprise twist! Lippman makes a strong case for responsible gun control.
Helpful Score: 1
Very suspenseful and keeps you guessing!
Helpful Score: 1
Well written - not my usual taste in books but an engrossing, if sometimes disturbing, read.
Helpful Score: 1
Excellent thriller about 3 teenage friends. They are involved in an elaborate shooting.
Helpful Score: 1
great book!!
Helpful Score: 1
Outstanding!! I could not put it down.
Three girls are in a school bathroom. Only one lives to tell about it. What happened between these girls who were once the best of friends? Is there more to the story than the survivor is saying?
A really good mystery that will have you questioning the motive as well as the characters involved.
A really good mystery that will have you questioning the motive as well as the characters involved.
I listened to the audio version of the book and the reader was so boring I didn't think I could get throught the book. As far as the story itself, IMHO, I kept thinking that she was trying to write like Jodi Picoult and didn't come anywhere near it. Boring, boring and boring.
Unexpected ending
This is the first Laura Lippman book I have read that was not part of the Tess Monaghan series. It was a pretty entertaining work of suspense; Lippman spends a lot of time creating her characters.
So far I am in the minority after reading this book. Perhaps having read Nineteen Minutes and The Pact by Jodi Picoult already makes me reaction to this book subjective, rather than objective. The latter books were riveting compared to "To the Power of Three" which I was in no hurry to finish (but I did).
Lippman writes well as far as plot and character development, but I felt this story wandered back and forth in time and between characters without accomplishing much. This is the same technique Picoult uses with ease.
Sorry, there just wasn't enough suspense for me and adding several subplots were more of a distraction than an improvement of the story.
Lippman writes well as far as plot and character development, but I felt this story wandered back and forth in time and between characters without accomplishing much. This is the same technique Picoult uses with ease.
Sorry, there just wasn't enough suspense for me and adding several subplots were more of a distraction than an improvement of the story.
a great read
An interesting psychological thriller.
Three high school girls, who are best friends, are found shot in their school bathroom. The popular one is dead, the athletic one was shot in the foot, and the brooding dramatic one has an apparent self-inflicted bullet in the face. The question is how did it happen and why?
I forced my way through this book. I wanted to find out what happened to the girls but the author introduced too many characters that weren't even necessary to the story. I tried a second book of hers but gave up. Once again too much unnecessary info.
Good book. Surprise ending.
good book, a bit long but good.
I found it hard to put this book down once I started reading it. Three girls, friend since third grade, then something goes horribly awry. But you don't know until the end what exactly went wrong and when. Great read.
At times, this book is a tough read. It is a story of 3 best friends in high school...and a school shooting by one of them that leaves one of the girls dead, one in ICU in critical condition, and the third injured but alive to tell the story. Full of unexpected twists.
As usual the book has a twist, and the wonders of youth still prevails.
Laura Lippman at her best
Laura Lippman at her best
Excellent book!! Great twists and turns, with a really good ending. A book I could not put down.
Good Read
Josie, Perri and Kat are three inseperable best friends since third grade. On the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. When the police break down the high school bathroom door, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded. One critically...and the third is dead.
Emotional, riveting, powerful. provacative and consistently surprising tale of secrets, friendship and betrayal.
More than a whodunnitt! This will keep you glued. I could honestly not put it down. A gripping mystery novel, very strong characters.
Emotional, riveting, powerful. provacative and consistently surprising tale of secrets, friendship and betrayal.
More than a whodunnitt! This will keep you glued. I could honestly not put it down. A gripping mystery novel, very strong characters.
Josie, Perri, and Kat have been inseparable best friends since third grade - the athlete, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen, and the popular beauty with a heart that is open to all around her. They live in an affluent suburb of Baltimore and enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the high school girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded, one of them critically - and the third girl is dead.
According to the Baltimore Sun, "'To the Power of Three' is no simple whodunit...An addicting and chilling page-turner."
Intricate mystery story of three highschool girls, friends since third grade. What is underneath that caused two of them to die?
Josie, Perri, and Kat have been inseparable best friends since third grade - the athlete, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen, and the popular beauty with a heart that is open to all around her. They live in an affluent suburb of Baltimore and enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the high school girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded, one of them critically - and the third girl is dead.
From one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today comes a novel breathtaking in its emotional depth - a riveting, powerful, provocative, and consistently surprising tale of secrets, friendship, and betrayal that brilliantly illuminates a dark and chilling event with startling clarity and unique empathy.
From one of the most acclaimed authors of crime fiction writing today comes a novel breathtaking in its emotional depth - a riveting, powerful, provocative, and consistently surprising tale of secrets, friendship, and betrayal that brilliantly illuminates a dark and chilling event with startling clarity and unique empathy.
THIS BOOK TELLS OF THREE GIRLS IN SCHOOL WHO BECAME FRIENDS AND THEN ONE DAY IN THE GIRLS BATHROOM AT SCHOOL THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED,TWO WERE WOUNDED,AND THE THIRD GIRL DEAD.VERY INTERESTING BOOK,THINGS CAN GO WRONG SO QUICKLY.
This was a good book, I am not sure what happened to my copy, but I remember enjoying it. A good and different suspense.
Josie, Perri, and Kat have been best friends since third grade. They live in an affluent suburb and enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded and the third girl is dead.
josie, perri, and kat have been inseparable best friends since third grade- the athlete, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen, and the popular bueaty with a heart that is open to all arund her. they live in an affluent suburb of baltimore and enjoy priveleges many teens are denied. but on the final day of school, one of them brings a gun. and when the police break down the door of the girls bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded and one dead.
From the back of the book: Josie, Perri, and Kat have been inseparable best friends since third grade...the athlete, the brilliant, acerbic drama queen, and the popular beauty with a heart that is open to all around her. They live in an affluent suburb of Baltimore and enjoy privileges many teenagers are denied. But on the final day of school one of them brings a gun with her. And when the police break down the door of the high school girls' bathroom, locked from the inside, they find two of the friends wounded, one of them critically...and the third girl is dead.
