Wednesday, May 30, 2012

TEN by Gretchen McNeil... GIVEAWAY!!!



And their doom comes swiftly.

It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie each have their reasons for being there (which involve T.J., the school’s most eligible bachelor) and look forward to three glorious days of boys, booze and fun-filled luxury.

But what they expect is definitely not what they get, and what starts out as fun turns dark and twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine.

Suddenly people are dying, and with a storm raging, the teens are cut off the from the outside world. No electricity, no phones, no internet, and a ferry that isn’t scheduled to return for two days. As the deaths become more violent and the teens turn on each other, can Meg find the killer before more people die? Or is the killer closer to her than she could ever imagine?


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Um, so how excited are we for this book???

Answer: VERY.

I remember Gretchen posting the synopsis for TEN, like, a year ago, and I begged and begged her to let me beta for it. But Gretchen can be mean like that, so she never did let me. Luckily she and I share the same publisher, so I was able to snag an ARC and read the awesomeness before anyone else! 

And it TOTALLY lived up to my expectations.

People dying left and right, everyone's a suspect, and she had me guessing until the very end. Perfect for mystery lovers! I *highly* recommend. 

Oh, and DUH, I almost forgot to mention Christopher Pike blurbed it. That's right. Christopher freaking Pike. Um, yeah. How awesome is that?

Now's your chance to win an advance review copy. Simply use the Rafflecopter widget below to rack up points. 

Here are the rules:

1. Contest will end at midnight on Friday, June 29th.

2. Because I am AWESOME, the contest is international.

3. Spread the word about Gretchen's sophomore novel. It's a winner!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

76 comments:

  1. Wow, I've never been first before :) How awesome of you to host yet another kickass giveaway! I just chose this book for my Waiting On Wednesday post today, so thank you!

    My favorite mystery is what ever happened to Amelia Earhart? I hate not knowing things, and I think part of that is the reason why I am obsessed with missing persons stories!

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  2. Oh this is soo cool! It's been ages since I wanted to read Gretchen's book too! :) Thanks for the opportunity!

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  3. My favorite mystery of all time is Murder on the Orient Express!
    I love so many Christies that it's hard to pick just one though...

    thanks for the giveaway!

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  4. Anything by Agatha Christie or Mary Higgins Clark. I can't pick just one!

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  5. I don't know if I have one favourite mystery of all time, but I LOVED the Nancy Drew mysteries when I was a kid! So many good memories :)

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  6. Great question. I guess the greatest mystery would be life. Who we were created and how we don't float into space. BUT my favorite and thought provoking would be the Bermuda Triangle.lol. Some weird things go down there. Have been dying to read TEN. =)

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  7. I read The Vanishing Game yesterday and it was pretty awesome. I totally didn't see the end coming - I love books like that!

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  8. I love The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.

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  9. Favourite mystery: Slide, duh! :P

    Thanks for the giveaway! ;)

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  10. The Analyst by John Katzenbach
    Thanks for the opportunity!

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  11. Oh goodness tough question.... I don't know if I can pick a favorite! I really like The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin. Does that count as a mystery? :P

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  12. My absolute favourite of all time is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie - which is the exact reason I want to read TEN so badly! Thank you for the doing the giveaway!

    (and i know there was a box for it in the Rafflecopter, but in case you want the link pasted here in the comments, I shared it on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/AshleyLovesBooks/posts/249207898514625)

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  13. I don't really have a favorite. I loved SLIDE, the ebook series ALIBI is very good, too. Rosebush is another addiction.

    I'm so looking forward to this book! Thanks for the opportunity! (FYI, June 29th is my birthday... Keep that in mind! ;) )

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  14. I use to read Mary Higgins Clark and Sue Grafton years ago but just no longer my cup of tea! Looking forward to Ten!

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  15. I want this one soooo bad! Actually, And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians) is my favorite mystery I read in high school, and well really ever. Ever since then I've been collecting Agatha Christie books. I also really enjoy culinary mysteries (Joanne Fluke and Diane Mott Davidson).

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  16. Thanks for the giveaway! Not sure what my favourite mystery would be, but I love Maureen Johnson's The Name of The Star!

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  17. I have been waiting for this book to come out! I don't know if I can pick an all-time fave, but I was mad for the Nancy Drew books when I was a kid.

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  18. My favorite mystery book has to be And Then There Were None. So you can see why I'm dying for Ten, no? =)

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  19. My favorite mystery is "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Cristie. I read it in middle school and I feel in love with it.

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  20. You know, I haven't read tons of mystery books; but when Gretchen put up a teaser on her blog, I was like... Dude! So, yeah, I'm on board for this.

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  21. i've liked a lot of mysteries, but i guess if i had to pick just one, i would say the westing game.

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  22. I loved Meg Cabot's Heather Wells series, it was a funny mystery which always kept you on your toes! Thanks so much for the giveaway! :)

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  23. I love Sherlock Holmes short stories.I used to read them when I was in sixth grade and I still love them :)

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  24. Hmm, not really sure about my fave mystery book--unless you count Shutter Island. However, my fave mystery TV show is definitely Veronica Mars. :)

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  25. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Stewart!

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  26. I saw Gretchen on the Buzz panel at BEA--can't wait to read this book!

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  27. My favorite mystery of all time is Nancy Drew- Murder on Ice (Nancy Drew File #3) :)

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  28. Hmm... the only mystery I can think of at the moment was the Dyatlov Pass incident, which was real and creeped me out BIG TIME, and I guess I wouldn't exactly call it a favorite... lol The whole story was just so bizarre and always stayed with me.

    Anyway, I cannot wait to read this one!! Thank you for the giveaway!! :)

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  29. Oh, gosh. I completely forgot about looking for this one. Stupid Kaye. Anyway, I'd say that the original And Then There Were None. Really creepy, but real-life stuff freaks me out a lot more - especially things like unsolved disappearances and voices in the dark and stuff like that. ><

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  30. First of all, thanx for the giveaway! :)
    Hmm, favourite mystery..there are sooo many! But recently I've read The Woods by Harlan Coben and liked it a lot. But I'm going to read Slide soon, so maybe it will be my fave too ;)

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  31. In The Woods by Tana French is my best mystery! But Ten sounds great too!

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  32. I haven't read any mystery stories that I can remember. Though Slide looks great! :)

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  33. I rarely read mystery books but I find If Tomorrow Comes by Sidney Sheldon really good.

    Thanks for the giveaway!

    Shared on Facebook
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  34. Lisa Gardner's The Perfect Husband is a great mystery. There are so many others that I could go on for hours!

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  35. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
    It's kind of like a paranormal mystery. LOVE IT :)

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  36. Shared on my FB page to fans!

    https://www.facebook.com/ReadAholicZ/posts/374452142622595

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  37. I loved Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane :)

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  38. I’m stil a loyal fan of Nancy Drew :)

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  39. I have to say anything R.L. Stine. Anything that happened on Fear Street. I used to devour those books like crazy.

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  40. I think it depends on what you define a mystery as. However, I really liked Anna Dressed In Blood. While it may not be a major mystery, I kind of thought it was. I kept asking the same questions: "What?" "Why?" "How?" "What's going to happen next?" I LOVE those questions.

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  41. Sherlock Holmes and The Hound Of Baskervilles.

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  42. I haven't read too many mysteries... although I'm actually reading SLIDE right now and I'm loving the mystery in it so far. :)

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  43. That's really difficult, but I think anything by Agatha Christie! :)

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  44. I don't read much mystery but I would say most by Georgette Heyer.

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  45. The Famous Five series are the first novel series that I read when I was little! I collected and owned each book and I loved them so much! Unfortunately there was an accident and I didn't own the books anymore... but the series is always my all-time favorite :D

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  46. Anything by Agatha Christie! She was truly the Queen of Crime :)

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  47. Hmmm probably any of the Sherlock Holmes books! :-)

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  49. I can name many books, the Famous Five series by Enid Bluton, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier and some others. But I like Angels and Demons by Dan Brown the best.

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  50. I haven't read a lot of mystery novels, but I am currently reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon and I am loving it!

    Thanks for the giveaway :)

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  51. I haven't read much in the way of mystery lately, but I did read alot of the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys books when I was growing up

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  52. I really don't know what my favorite mystery is. I have read a lot of them. I think probably Sherlock Holmes.

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  53. Oh my, thank you so much for the opportunity! It's been on my wishlist for a while so I'll keep my fingers crossed :)

    My favourite mystery has to be Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. I've read it at least 4 times and it still sends shivers down my neck every time I read it. (Gordon Reece's Mice is my newest favourite, though)

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  54. I'd have to go with "And Then There Were None".

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  55. Probably Shutter Island, it's also one of my favorite books of all time!

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  56. I love 'The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer' ( by Michelle Hodkin ), it's soooo good ;D

    Thanks for the giveaway =P

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  57. Honestly, Sherlock is probably one of my favorite mysteries, but I don't mean the books. I love the UK TV show. :P

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  58. anything sherlock holmes. i also love the new bbc show sherlock on tv.

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  59. After watching the BBC series Sherlock, I would have to say Sherlock Holmes.

    My Goodreads name is Stella FAYZ Chen (as I added TEN to my shelf).

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  60. Slide was a good one! I'm not really sure what my fav. one is. I Hunt Killers was another good mystery. Thank you for the giveaway!

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    1. Thanks!! I need to read I HUNT KILLERS. It's on my TBR list.

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  61. Don't know if it qualifies, but I love the Alex Cross series by James Patterson...

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  62. OMG... once I spent a whole summer reading, like 60 volumes of Conan/Case Closed (it's a manga). That was the year I stopped doing cartwheels everywhere because I was so busy reading. I loved it so much (still do, actually).

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