![]() I understand The Party may present as some sort of strange procedural and appear boring to the average American reader but it was an absolute treat for giving a reader from the UK such as myself a (ok, a highly overblown) insight into the mechanics and life of American high school teenagers. Reading the synopsis of book 1 which appeared at the beginning of The Dance, whilst helpful, didn’t provide the details and the meticulous introduction of the characters in book 1 is essential to undertsanding the vast array of players and what occurs to them in subsequent books. ![]() You think not much has happened with that first instalment but it sets the scene for so much more to come and there really are nuggets of characterisation that then feed into the subsequent books. Only when I finally managed to track down the book and read it, did certain elements of the subsequent books make sense. I speak with conviction and personal experience due to the fact that I, as a teenager, read The Dance and The Graduation in swift succession without being able to commence No guys, you have this book all wrong! I agree with Katie Lilly, the first instalment of Final Friends has to be read and treated holistically with the rest of the trilogy. ![]()
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