For Your Own Good ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭒

Genre: Thriller

US Publication: July 20, 2021

Print: 373 pages

Audio: 10 hours 37 minutes

Confetti Rating: 4.5 stars

REVIEW:

For Your Own Good, Samantha Downing’s latest and (IMO) greatest novel, is a 3D thriller. It’s deranged. It’s devious. It’s delicious.

If you read a lot in this genre, you begin notice that authors have to come up with increasingly ridiculous scenarios and character motivations to top anything previously written. What’s great about this one is that Downing went ALL IN and bought a first class, one-way ticket on the crazy train. This prep school-set story is so over the top that anything goes, and thus readers never have to deal with pesky “that would never happen” thoughts. At the fictional Belmont Academy, you better watch your back. (Well, and your beverages. And the food. And the air you’re breathing. Heck, better just watch everything.)

I kinda loved it, and if you want to escape to a world that’ll make our real one seem like candyland, I think you will too.

PUBLISHER SYNOPSIS:

Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the esteemed Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest.

He says his wife couldn't be more proud — though no one has seen her in a while.

Teddy really can’t be bothered with the death of a school parent that’s looking more and more like murder or the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is on pushing these kids to their full academic potential.

All he wants is for his colleagues — and the endlessly meddlesome parents — to stay out of his way.

It's really too bad that sometimes excellence can come at such a high cost.

USA Today bestselling author Samantha Downing is back with her latest sneaky thriller set at a prestigious private school — complete with interfering parents, overeager students, and one teacher who just wants to teach them all a lesson…