Nerve

Read the book before you see 2016's hottest YA film, starring Emma Roberts, Dave Franco & Juliette Lewis.Are you playing the game, or is the game playing you? Ahigh-stakes online game of dares turns deadly.Vee doesn't know if she has the guts to play NERVE, an online game of high-stakes dares. With Ian on her team, it's easy to agree to another dare. And another. And another. At first it's thrilling, as the manipulative audience, or 'Watchers', cheer them on to riskier challenges. But things quickly get out of hand. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE? "Ryan's story is thought-provoking and unsettling...the ending goes off with abang and atwist." - Publishers Weekly "Ryan questions the nature of entertainment and explores the concept of privacy in aworld of increasingly sophisticated social media. Teens will find themselves drawn in by the story's possibilities, and unNERVEd by its outcome. Give this to Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games fans." - School Library Journal "The commentary on today's life-as-public-spectacle society is sound. The pacing is relentless, and readers will find themselves flipping madly to the very last page." - Kirkus Reviews Debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers on aBlack Mirror meets Pretty Little Liars novel full of action, suspense and hot romance.