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Headgames
Steven Byrd is highly intelligent. He's just not very smart. For one thing, he's obsessed with Avery Adams - a girl who can't stand him. When Steven discovers Avery is involved in a secret game, he drags his best mate, Tala, along for the ride. Steven laughs when he finally hears what the game is - until he thinks about the other players. Avery has had plenty of practice at twisting the knife to hurt Steven. Connor Robson is rumoured to have been in juvenile detention, and Connor's half-sister Jude's hostility could break glass. A silly kids' game can get serious very quickly when you let other people inside your head.
- GenresYoung Adult
284 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2010
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Casey Lever
4 books8 followersCasey Lever is the author of five novels for teenagers. She lives with her husband and two daughters in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, where she works as an English teacher at a private girl's school.
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May 30, 2010
I actually only read this because the guy on the cover was cute. Well thats not the only reason that I read it, I was really interested in what the game was having read books in the past where teenagers played games that got out of hand.
I was very pleasantly surprised in this book.
The game is truth or dare.
Using dice they roll to see how gets the question. There's a twist of course, you get the dare and the "truth" at the same time, so you have a choice.
Personally I agreed with Connor truth is the tougher option to choose, thats why as a kid I always picked dare, especially because at home confined to one room nudity isn't an option.
I was intrigued to see that dare didn't get taken up much, and when it was it was confined to the group on the weekend.
Okay so the cast of characters, Steven Byrd: smart, just not street-smart, his only friend Tala Mataeo, Avery Adams Steven's "one true love", Connor resident bad-boy instigator of the game and his half-sister Jude.
I was very pleasantly surprised in this book.
The game is truth or dare.
Using dice they roll to see how gets the question. There's a twist of course, you get the dare and the "truth" at the same time, so you have a choice.
Personally I agreed with Connor truth is the tougher option to choose, thats why as a kid I always picked dare, especially because at home confined to one room nudity isn't an option.
I was intrigued to see that dare didn't get taken up much, and when it was it was confined to the group on the weekend.
Okay so the cast of characters, Steven Byrd: smart, just not street-smart, his only friend Tala Mataeo, Avery Adams Steven's "one true love", Connor resident bad-boy instigator of the game and his half-sister Jude.
July 14, 2012
This is a similar story to "The Breakfast Club" with a bunch of different young people put together to learn about about each other and to become friends, however the period of time is longer and is more sustainable.
I read it in a morning and couldn't put it down. A great story about adolescent relationships, peer pressure, family relationships, perceptions and reality and how they all combine to create situations that are sometimes out of our control.
It is a perceptive story and would be good for anyone who likes to read about relationships
I read it in a morning and couldn't put it down. A great story about adolescent relationships, peer pressure, family relationships, perceptions and reality and how they all combine to create situations that are sometimes out of our control.
It is a perceptive story and would be good for anyone who likes to read about relationships
February 21, 2010
They were told the game could bring freedom. They were warned the game could be cruel, that it dose damage. But what they were not sure of was what the game was.
For years Steven had followed Avery around school, love sick and stupid he refused to be deterred, even when Avery came right out and told him she hated him. After all this time he thought he knew her... It was the game that finally brought them together, just not in the way Steven had hoped.
When Tala perceived a threat to his friend, he automatically stepped in and joined the game, unaware of the consequences it would have for himself. The game was also to change Jude, a troubled girl dragged into the game by her half-brother Connor, who started the game with one purpose in mind.
They all had their own reasons for wanting to play the game, they all wanted something different from the game, but the game doesn't work that way, and what they would get was not what they expected. When you play with the truth, you risk pain. But is anyone ever ready to hear brutal honesty.
When a criminal, a princes, a jock, a punk chick, and a geek come together to play an innocent child's game, no one would be left unscathed. Headgames is the modern equivalent to the movie "The Breakfast Club", where everyone learns there is more to others then what is seen at face value.
For years Steven had followed Avery around school, love sick and stupid he refused to be deterred, even when Avery came right out and told him she hated him. After all this time he thought he knew her... It was the game that finally brought them together, just not in the way Steven had hoped.
When Tala perceived a threat to his friend, he automatically stepped in and joined the game, unaware of the consequences it would have for himself. The game was also to change Jude, a troubled girl dragged into the game by her half-brother Connor, who started the game with one purpose in mind.
They all had their own reasons for wanting to play the game, they all wanted something different from the game, but the game doesn't work that way, and what they would get was not what they expected. When you play with the truth, you risk pain. But is anyone ever ready to hear brutal honesty.
When a criminal, a princes, a jock, a punk chick, and a geek come together to play an innocent child's game, no one would be left unscathed. Headgames is the modern equivalent to the movie "The Breakfast Club", where everyone learns there is more to others then what is seen at face value.
July 5, 2011
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this story made me think deeply because in the story the characters judged each other and that just changed the whole story line everytime.
This book was interesting because of the blurb it sounded more interesting then the book actually was.
this stories moral is that you should not judge someone just because of how they look or how the act.
I would not recommend this book because it is boring because the plot is just too boring and slow but if you really wan to read it just read the blurb.
this story made me think deeply because in the story the characters judged each other and that just changed the whole story line everytime.
This book was interesting because of the blurb it sounded more interesting then the book actually was.
this stories moral is that you should not judge someone just because of how they look or how the act.
I would not recommend this book because it is boring because the plot is just too boring and slow but if you really wan to read it just read the blurb.
April 1, 2014
This book was amazing cause I had a twist in truth or dare and it turned around ever corner when you think it was just about finishing...
I loved how it had all the characters stories/sides in this interesting story.
This book reminded me of my life at school- boys, school and everyone hating me...
I think this teaches a lesson- Believe what you want to believe...
Hope you guys enjoy this story...
I loved how it had all the characters stories/sides in this interesting story.
This book reminded me of my life at school- boys, school and everyone hating me...
I think this teaches a lesson- Believe what you want to believe...
Hope you guys enjoy this story...
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August 1, 2012
I actually didn't quite get the book at first, but towards the middle of it I got it. Phew. I liked how the author is sending a message that a person can be really different from how they act to how they really are in the inside.
July 11, 2010
loved the book
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March 6, 2012I thought it was a really good book i loved it
February 12, 2012
it was alright, wouldnt be in any rush to read again
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