Reviews

Cuidado Con Ella/Beware That Girl by Teresa Toten

readwithmeemz's review against another edition

4.0

I was lucky enough to get an advance reader's copy of this book from Penguin Random House. I'm SO glad I read it! This book was so great! I kept hearing the term "Gone Girl... But for teens" thrown around, and I thought people were blowing it out of proportion, but Teresa Toten wrote a gripping & dramatic thriller that kept you on the edge of your seat the whole time. It was a little underdeveloped in some aspects - like I felt like a lot more could have been done with some of the characters - so parts of it felt almost... Unfinished? The ending was great though. I absolutely loved the story overall! It was like Gossip Girl (the TV show - with its dramatic twists & turns) mixed with the unreliable narration of Gone Girl. I really loved it! I would definitely recommend it if you're looking for a thriller - be warned though, you'll be hard-pressed to put it down!

mrs_george's review against another edition

2.0

I’m glad I bought this from a bargain bin. It fell flat. Nothing was fleshed out enough. Definitely cannot compare to Gone Girl as it claims to do.

melindagallagher's review against another edition

4.0

This private school drama is a little too fabricated, but it does bring to light several issues of mental illness, abuse, and lying to get what you want. The psychological thriller is not my typical read, but I enjoyed it. Give to fans of Gone Girl and We Were Liars.

jasmyn9's review against another edition

5.0

Holy cow! I thought I had this book all figured out - but I totally didn't. Biggest curve ball I've seen in a long, long time.

Kate will do just about anything to keep her scholarship and get into Yale. Step one, befriending one of the haves by the name of Olivia. She's an easy mark, looking for a new friend. And things seem to go along very nicely. She's managed to become Olivia's best friend. But then things get a little weird.

Enter Mark Redkin, the new employee at the private school that all the girls (student and faculty alike) are head over heels for. But he's more than what he seems on the surface. Kate doesn't trust him, and soon she finds out why. Things quickly spin out of Kate's carefully constructed plan. Mark is out of her league, but she's determined to come out on top.

This is where things took an interesting twist that I never saw coming. I don't want to give it away, but it's a good one. Excellently done Teresa Toten.

*This book was received in exchange for an honest review*

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jenn_reads's review against another edition

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

Roller coaster of emotions. I had reservations at first, turned around at some point and liked it in the middle for a bit, then it got creepy fast, and then HATED the last chapter. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Murder, and Alcohol

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis

The dog lives.

katherinetucker's review against another edition

2.0

This book really could have been... well, if not good, fine? I guess? But it does two things which are really just terrible. First, it’s way too invested in its last minute TWIST which is completely not grounded in the text. Second, at the climax of the book, the characterization of the main character just completely falls apart. It’s lazy, it’s boring, and it’s something I’ve seen happen so many times in recent ~on trend~ novels. Skip this one.

inkygirl's review against another edition

5.0

Just came back from the cottage, where I read BEWARE THAT GIRL. If you are looking for a GREAT summer read (and esp if you enjoyed GONE GIRL or WE WERE LIARS), I *strongly* encourage you to get a copy of psychological thriller BEWARE THAT GIRL by Teresa Toten (Doubleday Canada). The staff at Mabel's Fables Bookstore had good advice: Don't start reading it at night, because you will be up waaaaayy too late. Love the dark edge and unpredictability (you THINK you know the implication of the title...), the mystery within mystery, the satisfying conclusion. For teen and above.

perfectionotincluded's review against another edition

2.0

It was no good. The characters lacked depth and the climax was laughable. The "twist" at the end was just dumb and at the point I just didn't care. Also, please stop comparing every "thriller" with a female main character to Gone Girl.

buecheradler's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

lazygal's review against another edition

4.0

SWF for the NYC prep crowd... but that's a little simplistic. Kate and Olivia both are far more complex than they appear for most of the book, complex in a way I'd usually expect from an adult, not a YA, book. That's very much a good thing, by the way. I wasn't as fond of the depiction of the prep life, which feels a little facile (reading today's paper, for example, I see two very prestigious schools dealing with adult "misbehavior" and a third still in the news over boys behaving very badly; you can't convince me that Mark would have been hired without a serious background check - I wasn't!). But that aside, the dance between Kate and Olivia is fascinating to watch and that's why this got four stars.

ARC provided by publisher.