Cold Calls

Reviewed by: Carla McAllister - New Gloucester Public Library, New Gloucester, Maine, Choose Library District

Review Date: February 7, 2015

Review

The premise of this story is not really believable. Three teenagers from three different schools are blackmailed by text and email into bullying certain chosen kids in their schools. The blackmailer has information on each student that would cause themselves and others great disgust and disgrace if revealed. So, the teenagers are forced into bullying, which goes against their natures and has repercussions. When they meet in a required bullying weekend class and find what they have in common, they band together to find out who the culprit is behind the blackmail before time runs out. It was only okay and it did deal with cyber-bullying via blackmail but it didn't hold my attention very well.

Overall Book Score: poor