Tell Me Everything by Cambria Brockman
Hawthorne College is a small liberal arts college in Maine, known as a mini-Ivy, catering to students from wealthy families who can't get into real Ivy League colleges due to poor grades or lack of connections. Six students meet during freshman orientation and quickly become a tight group:
- Malin is a pre-law major from a wealthy Texas family, who tends to be a loner but tries hard to make friends and fit in;
- John is the athletic golden boy, wealthy, popular and sought after, who wants to major in finance and partying, studying as little as possible;
- Ruby is attending Hawthorne on a soccer scholarship and plans to study art history - she is the prettiest and most popular girl in the group;
- Max is John's cousin, handsome and intense, who suffers from panic attacks even though he comes from a wealthy loving family - he plans to study pre-med and become a surgeon;
- Gemma is from London and mixed race, the daughter of an American woman and a Pakistani diplomat, a theater major since she has a natural flair for drama - she is very insecure and infatuated with John, even though John and Ruby become a couple almost immediately; and
- Khaled, aka the prince, from extremely wealthy Abu Dhabi royalty, also planning on majoring in pre-med - he uses his wealth to draw the others close to him.
The six of them live together in a house that Khaled owns near the campus and are inseparable until their senior year, when cracks begin to appear. By the annual Senior Day celebrations, they are slowly falling apart. Secrets that have been carefully hidden come to light, threatening their futures and their friendships.
This was great summer reading, character driven but with a fast moving story line and good writing. Will appeal to readers who enjoyed The Secret History by Donna Tartt or One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus.
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