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Narrated by:
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Brittany Pressley
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By:
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Kara Thomas
About this listen
From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybrook. When a mysterious accident befalls a member of the all-star high school football team, the town's deadly history stands to repeat itself—and the price of discovering the truth is higher than anyone could imagine.
It was the deaths of five cheerleaders that made the town of Sunnybrook infamous. Eleven years later, the girls' killer has been brought to justice, and the town just wants to move on. By the time Hadley moves to Sunnybrook, though, the locals are more interested in the Tigers, the high school's championship-winning football team. The Tigers are Sunnybrook’s homegrown heroes—something positive in a town with so much darkness in its past.
Hadley could care less about football, but shortly after she gets assigned to cover the team's latest championship bid for the school newspaper, one of the Tigers is poisoned at a party, and almost immediately after, Hadley starts getting strange emails warning her to stay far away from the football team.
It's becoming clear Sunnybrook's golden boys have secrets, and after a second player is mysteriously killed, Hadley’s beginning to suspect that someone wants the team to pay for their sins. Or does this new target on the football team have something to do with what happened to the cheerleaders all those years ago?
As an outsider in Sunnybrook, Hadley feels like she's the only one who can see the present clearly, but it looks like she’s going to have to dig up the darkness of the past to get to the bottom of what’s happening now. Luckily, there are still some Sunnybrook High grads who never left—people who were around eleven years ago—and if she can just convince them to talk, she might be able stop a killer before another Tiger dies.
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There are ghosts around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about it after what happened there that last summer. Memories of things so dark will burn themselves into your mind if you let them. Callie never left. She moved to another house, so she doesn't have to walk those same halls, but then Callie always was the stronger one.
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Excellent!
- By Trista on 04-22-16
By: Kara Thomas
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Pretty Dead Queens
- By: Alexa Donne
- Narrated by: Phoebe Strole
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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After the death of her mom (screw cancer), seventeen-year-old Cecelia Ellis goes to live with her estranged grandmother, a celebrated author whose Victorian mansion is as creepy as the murder mysteries she writes. On the surface, life is utterly ordinary in the California coastal town . . . until the homecoming queen is murdered. And she’s not Seaview’s first pretty dead queen.
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Best YA I've Read in a While
- By Lindsey Albright on 10-24-22
By: Alexa Donne
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Lost to Dune Road
- By: Kara Thomas
- Narrated by: Helen Laser, Marli Watson
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
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Reporter Lee Ellerin’s investigation into a young woman’s unsolved murder gained national attention—only for her to lose everything due to a tragic mistake. After being publicly ridiculed for causing a suspect’s death, Lee is forced to leave her career behind. Five years later, pregnant college student Amanda Hartley lies in a coma. The police say she attempted suicide, but the details don’t add up. Where is the father? Who was paying for Amanda’s Manhattan penthouse? Why did Amanda have a note with Lee’s name in her backpack?
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Women are Disposable...
- By Michelle Harder on 10-01-24
By: Kara Thomas
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They All Had a Reason
- A Rumor. A Secret. A Lie. A Murder
- By: Michele Leathers
- Narrated by: Kim Churchill
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Charlotte is convinced her life would be perfect if she could only get past the one obstacle holding her back: a girl named Bellany Silverfield, who seems to have it all - beauty, popularity, power, and the boy of Charlotte’s dreams. But when Bellany is murdered, Charlotte’s life doesn't get any better.
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Terrible
- By ktmonster on 06-09-21
By: Michele Leathers
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For Your Own Good
- By: Samantha Downing
- Narrated by: David Pittu
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Teddy Crutcher has won Teacher of the Year at the prestigious Belmont Academy, home to the best and brightest. He says his wife couldn’t be more proud - though no one has seen her in a while. Teddy really can’t be bothered with a few mysterious deaths on campus that’re looking more and more like murder or with the student digging a little too deep into Teddy’s personal life. His main focus is pushing these kids to their full academic potential.
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Very good
- By Julia on 07-24-21
By: Samantha Downing
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The Meadowbrook Murders
- By: Jessica Goodman
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Jesse Vilinsky
- Length: 10 hrs
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It’s the first week of senior year at Meadowbrook Academy. For Amy and her best friend Sarah, that means late-night parties at the boathouse, bike rides through their sleepy Connecticut town, and the crisp beginning of a New England fall. Then tragedy strikes: Sarah and her boyfriend are brutally murdered in their dorm room. Now the week Amy has been dreaming about for years has turned into a nightmare, especially when all eyes turn to her as the culprit.
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Predictable
- By Kim on 03-08-25
By: Jessica Goodman
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Two Can Keep a Secret
- By: Karen M. McManus
- Narrated by: Sophie Amoss, Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age 17. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now, Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.
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Couldn’t stop listening
- By James ODonnell on 01-09-19
By: Karen M. McManus
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- Anonymous User
- 03-27-25
The plot twists
Loved the stereotypes of the football players and the cheerleaders and how they weren’t as perfect as they seemed.
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- Sydney Hakenson
- 09-15-24
Addictive who dun it ya murder mystery
Couldn’t stop listening!! Loved the cryptic anonymous emails! Had me on the edge of my seat and craving to figure out the dark secrets of Sunnybrook high school.
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- Robert
- 02-18-25
the book
Its like ice cream, you just can't put it down no matter how badly you want to
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- Sherry enos
- 09-08-24
the best who done it book that keep me guessing untill the end.
amazing book. I love the author of this book . she did a amazing job . I finish it in one day . I could not stop untill I knew who the killer was. great post and mystery.
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- JW
- 09-19-24
An entertaining mystery
I enjoyed this book, but I did find it a bit predictable at times. Still, there were other elements that were surprising, which was more satisfying. The narrator did a great job.
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- Pink Amy
- 08-27-24
Pitch perfect
THE CHAMPIONS is the companion book to Kara Thomas’s THE CHEERLEADERS that I didn’t realize how much I needed.
Thomas hits a grand slam with THE CHAMPIONS, set 6 years after THE CHEERLEADERS ended.
School newspaper editor Hadley competes with her rival Peter (younger half-brother of Monica from THE CHEERLEADERS) stumble upon wrongdoings by their two time champion football team starting with the coach down to the star players. Then the players start dying.
I’ve loved every one of Thomas’s YA mysteries. I’ve enjoyed her adult thrillers, but they don’t grab me like her YA. I hope Thomas keeps writing YA for years to come.
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- Marcie
- 12-18-24
Kara Thomas does it again
After I finished the cheerleaders I got swept up with life until I remembered about my audible account — and my audible subscription. With over 10 credits accumulated I didn’t know what to listen to, but thankfully this book was recommended and I was delighted to find out a sequel to the cheerleaders was made. Just like the cheerleaders, I was hooked from start to finish. I listen to music, podcasts, and audio books while at work only, but I found myself listening to this story while doing day to day things like cleaning and folding laundry. I was OBSESSED the entire time. The narrator is amazing, so if you like the brief story description but are unsure about the narrator, don’t be!! She does a great job, her voice is easy to listen to and her impersonations of characters really help in immersing the reader. I 100% recommend giving this book a shot!
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-01-25
A disappointing sequel
As someone who really liked The Cheerleaders and loved Little Monsters, this book was sadly a disappointment.
Biggest issue was that this lacked the same emotional stakes and "heart" of The Cheerleaders. The main character doesn't really have a strong emotional connection to the core mystery. It just feels like she's solving the mystery because she's the main character in a mystery novel, as opposed to having a strong, organic motivation.
Most characters don't get much development, and the few that somewhat do don't form any interesting relationships with the POV character. In fact, there really wasn't any interesting relationships in this book in general, which was surprising to me coming from Thomas's other books. In her past books she give the main character some strong relationships dynamics - parent, sibling, friends, which makes them way more relatable and interesting.
Another major issue for me was the pacing. The plot moves VERY slowly. For example, the events in the audible blurb that normally is just the premise of the mystery doesn't fully playout until 2/3+ of the book. This book is about 20% shorter than The Cheerleaders but felt much longer. It doesn't help that the investigation of the mystery happens very passively.
Overall, it was much more predictable than Thomas's other entries too. At the end, the story sort of felt like "the worst people you know did exactly the terrible things you think they'd do"
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