Beautiful Malice

During lunch at a Sydney high school, popular Alice Parrie invites a stunned bookworm Katherine to attend her eighteenth birthday bash. Alice explains it was the way Katherine ripped the skin off Dan Johnson for being nasty and little when a nervous woman gave a talk about the future. Four years plus since the party that changed her life and her surname, Katherine prays no one learns just who single mom Katherine Boydell... Read Full Review

I highly doubt that a large proportion of the negative reviews that I have read for this book were actually written by the age group in which this book is aimed at. I, for one, am in the intended audience, and absolutely loved it. For those who call this book cliche, I do not understand. This type of teenage girl fiction in which I can loose myself, and imagine myself as the characters, is the genre I thrive off. This book... Read Full Review

I knew I wanted to read this book, but I guess I wasn't exactly sure what to expect from it-- it's obvious from the introduction that this girl Alice is going to cause a lot of trouble, but I honestly didn't think she could be so cruel. The way the book is set up kinda reminded me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Chronicles of a Death Foretold: we know from the beginning that Katherine has changed her name and moved to a city... Read Full Review

Let me start by saying that I haven't been so impressed by a book in quite a while. I was lucky enough to receive a copy for review and picked it up one day last week intending to read just a few chapters. Two hours later I was totally engrossed in the story and couldn't put it down. This rarely happens to me, but here James has written a psychological thriller that will grab you from page one. Seriously, the start of... Read Full Review

I read a lot. I'm pretty tough on crime fiction -- it's so cliche and overdone usually. The same kind of plot with the same kind of characters. I really liked Beautiful Malice because it was fresh and different. It's one of the best fiction books I've read in a long time. I found it to be very suspenseful and hard to put down. I don't want to give anything away about the plot, but rest assured you won't be disappointed if... Read Full Review