SuitabookAmbition and promised success
Three teenagers accept membership after receiving a message promising success and fame; their ambitions are subsequently fulfilled week after week.
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Tom Dolby - Author
This is a teen mystery-thriller about ambition, secrecy and control. Its hook combines privileged school life with a demanding initiation and a death linked by a distinctive tattoo, while the characters’ success raises troubling questions about its price.
Secrets, secrets are no fun. Secrets, secrets hurt someone. . . . An eccentric new girl. A brooding socialite. The scion of one of New York's wealthiest families. A promising filmmaker. As students at the exclusive Chadwick School, Phoebe, Lauren, Nick, and Patch already live in a world most teenagers only dream about. They didn't ask to be Society members. But when three of them receive a mysterious text message promising success and fame beyond belief, they say yes to everything-even to the harrowing initiation ceremony in a gritty warehouse downtown and to the ankh-shaped tattoo they're forced to get on the nape of their necks. Once they're part of the Society, things begin falling into place for them. Week after week, their ambitions are fulfilled. It's all perfect-until a body is found in Central Park with no distinguishing marks except for an ankh-shaped tattoo. Tom Dolby makes his teen fiction debut with this riveting novel about a dangerous society so secret that once you get in, you can never get out.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a teen mystery-thriller about ambition, secrecy and control. Its hook combines privileged school life with a demanding initiation and a death linked by a distinctive tattoo, while the characters’ success raises troubling questions about its price.
Three teenagers accept membership after receiving a message promising success and fame; their ambitions are subsequently fulfilled week after week.
The characters do not ask to be Society members, yet some agree to its demands, including a harrowing initiation and a forced tattoo; membership is described as difficult to leave.
The book includes a harrowing initiation, a forced tattoo and the discovery of a body.
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