- Hachette Book Group
I recommend Megan Abbott’s new novel, The Fever, as ideal summer reading with a caveat: it will not last you through the summer. It probably won’t even last you through a week-long vacation. If you are susceptible to cliff-hanger chapter-endings (and who isn’t?), you will probably blow through it in 24 hours. Several of those hours are hours you should have spent sleeping if you want to be happy and alert at work the next day. But you will probably agree the trade-off is totally worth it.
“Later, the brief reign of Gabby and Tyler—had it really only lasted a month?—became a sign to Deenie that there were entire dark corridors too awful to ponder. . . . Sexual debut. Sometimes it seemed to Deenie that high school was like a long game of And Then There Were None. Every Monday, another girl’s debut.”
