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With Malice Hardcover – June 7, 2016

by Eileen Cook (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 1,265 ratings
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For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train comes a chilling, addictive psychological thriller about a teenage girl who cannot remember the last six weeks of her life.

Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron's senior trip to Italy was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime. And then the accident happened. Waking up in a hospital room, her leg in a cast, stitches in her face, and a big blank canvas where the last 6 weeks should be, Jill comes to discover she was involved in a fatal accident in her travels abroad. She was jetted home by her affluent father in order to receive quality care. Care that includes a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident...wasn't an accident. Wondering not just what happened but what she did, Jill tries to piece together the events of the past six weeks before she loses her thin hold on her once-perfect life.
 
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    320 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Clarion Books
  4. Publication date
    June 7, 2016
  5. Grade level
    9 - 12
  6. Reading age
    14 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    0544805097
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0544805095
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Gr 9 Up—Eighteen-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room recovering from a broken leg and a traumatic brain injury with no memory of how she got there. She doesn't remember anything about her study abroad trip to Italy six weeks ago with her best friend Simone. She doesn't remember the car crash that killed Simone or the flight her wealthy father chartered to get her to an American hospital. She doesn't remember why she might need the lawyer her father has hired. Everyone thinks they know what happened between Jill and Simone, thanks to eyewitness accounts and the sensational news coverage, but it's up to Jill to figure out the truth for herself. This character-driven thriller teases out what might have happened between the two girls as the events leading to the accident slowly unfold. Jill's recovery includes realistically portrayed rehab for her broken leg and speech therapy for the aphasia that leaves her forgetting words. Cook intersperses Jill's first-person narration with police interviews, news coverage, and blog posts about the car crash. Travel guide excerpts are as close as readers will get to any Italian locations as Jill's memories of the trip remain elusive for most of the novel. Flashbacks, Facebook posts, and emails help to further develop Jill and Simone's complicated relationship. The rest of the cast fall more comfortably into stock character territory. Questions of what Jill remembers and what might have been a dream or suggested memory lend a chilling quality to the conclusion of this novel. VERDICT A solid thriller that will leave readers guessing until the very last page.—Emma Carbone, Brooklyn Public Library

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An Entertainment Weekly “Seriously Scary Summer Read”

"A creepy, satisfying thriller..."
–Entertainment Weekly

"This multimedia project is a perfect thriller to stow in your beach bag.”
–TeenVogue.com

"Prepare for lots of twists, right up until the very last chapter."
–Seventeen.com

“[A] page-turning psychological thriller.”
–Bustle.com

"For those who like a suspenseful and riveting novel.”
–Glitter Guide

“This book will have you turning pages as you try and decide what you believe and who you can trust.”
–Parade.com

* "Cinematic scene breaks and propulsive reveals will keep the pages furiously turning in this slow-burning but explosive thriller."
–Booklist, STARRED review

"[With Malice] is a page-turner, and the ending is unsettling—let the reader beware."
–VOYA

"A solid thriller that will leave readers guessing until the very last page."
–School Library Journal

"Cook believably portrays the struggles of girl who had it all and is left to pick up the pieces of a life she isn’t sure is hers."
–Publishers Weekly

"The hoopla surrounding the accident is played well, reminiscent of the real-life Amanda Knox trial. Jill's past-tense narration is complemented by Justice for Simone blog posts, police transcripts, text messages, email, Facebook comments, and Crime Watch episodes, through which details of their frenemy-ship and what might've happened emerge."
–Kirkus

"The story is twisty, well-written, and so powerful that I felt as though I was reading about a true crime. Is there anything more complex or vicious than a teen girl? Especially one with secrets."–Chevy Stevens NYT Bestselling author Still Missing and Those Girls

"Some books you read and forget immediately. Some you finish and want to start again immediately. This is one of the latter. Staggeringly smart, just enough sexy, and virtually seamless."–Terra Elan McVoy, author of Edgar Finalist, Criminal 

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarion Books (June 7, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0544805097
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0544805095
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ HL730L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 9 - 12
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 1,265 ratings

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Eileen Cook is a multi-published author with her novels appearing in nine different languages. She spent most of her teen years wishing she were someone else or somewhere else, which is great training for a writer. She's a frequent speaker at conferences and is a writing mentor and coachhelping other authors find their voice.

You can read more about Eileen, her books, and the things that strike her as funny at www.eileencook.com. Eileen lives in Vancouver with two dogs and no longer wishes to be anyone or anywhere else.

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Jennifer R. Shiels
4.0 out of 5 stars Finding the Truth
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2018
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With Malice is a wonderfully intrinsic story. Eileen Cook has such an amazing way to create characters and stories that have so many levels. She has the ability to take readers on a roller coaster ride of emotions and they are just trying to figure out what really happened. This book is mostly told through Jill Charron's point of view but littered throughout are interview notes, blog posts, news articles, etc. This allows the reader to get a more rounded idea of the story.

Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital room with no memories of the past six weeks. She's just eighteen years old and seems to have so much in front of her. She finds out that that she went to Italy for the Study Abroad program and she was involved in a fatal car accident that killed her best friend Simone. The Italian Government and so many others believe that it wasn't an accident and Jill killed her best friend. She has to face surgery, rehabilitation, and possible extradition to Italy to face the courts.

Jill's a really smart young woman that has been accepted to Yale University. She comes from a family with money but her father left her mother for a younger woman with two sons that seem to have replaced their family. She's close with her mother but the person that knows her most was Simone. They had been best friends since fourth grade. Jill and Simone are so completely different. Jill's always been about her studies and books, she loves history and art, and voicing her opinion on matters that she thinks are important. Simone was all about being the center of attention, she was a cheerleader, and ended up being Prom Queen. She had no plans for college and didn't know what she wanted to do with her life. She wasn't even supposed to be on the Italian trip and it was going to be an opportunity for Jill to be on her own.

Jill's a likable character that's trying to figure out what happened. She can't believe that she would ever do anything to hurt Simone because she loved her and felt like she was her sister. She hates that she has no memory of what happened or the last times she and Simone were together. Jill does have moments where she's a people pleaser especially her father. She feels guilty or horrible for letting anyone down. Her parents do what they can to leave her in the dark to supposedly protect her. Luckily her rehab roommate Anna does what she can to help her. There are so many people that are trying to make Jill seem like a slut, jealous of Simone, and think she looks like a cold blooded killer. She's never been a social butterfly, she feels uncomfortable in social situations a lot, and she feels better in the classroom and museums, etc.

There are so many times throughout this story that I worry that Jill's future will pretty much be ruined because of this. She's a great character and has moments of strength but this could also destroy her. But the ending showed that Jill will be just fine!!!
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Clifford Family
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterful
Reviewed in the United States on July 6, 2016
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I am leery of writing this is the best book I've read since Girl on the Train, because people are always saying one book is the next this or that. But this is the best book I've read since Girl on the Train. After a few chapters, I knew this was a special book, one of those you pretty much read straight through. The mystery. The voice. The motivation. The clues and threads. All masterful. There are very few books I truly love. Most are readable. Some of quite good. Some are great. Then there are the ones like this. The relationship between Jill and Simone, the fracture of divorce and stigma of less that, all conspire to create a whole way more than the sum of its parts. I can't recommend this one enough.
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staranise
3.0 out of 5 stars The book read like it was written by someone who either doesn't spend ...
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2016
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I'm giving this book 3 stars instead of 2 because I did keep reading. I did read it quickly. It was a page turner. But that's about all it ha going for it.

The book read like it was written by someone who either doesn't spend much time with teenage girls, doesn't remember being a teenage girl, or doesn't have a lot of respect for teenage girls. And the result is characters that are one dimensional and trite. I live with an 18 year old girl, and I Can tell you, they have a rich inner world that this book didn't come close to touching. I found much of the teen dialog forced and not believable. The adult dialog was mostly fine, though I did find even some of those characters written as caricatures of personas instead of as fully fleshed-out individuals. And even though this is a YA novel, I didn't think it paid the reader due respect either: the book could have been a lot savvier than it was, even with it's utterly lackluster plot.

Those looking for a story with a good twist? Please keep looking. There isn't a twist so much as a general feeling of, "....Oh. That's all? I see." Like, you might not have guessed that's where you were headed, but once you got there, you weren't punched in the face like perhaps you were with Gone Girl. This book just sort of...ends. And you're like, "Ok, well, thanks for nothing."

I found some of the devices the author used awfully convenient ("My friend knows stuff about computers!" "AWESOME! Can he solve this riddle for me?" "TOTES!" "RAD!") and the entire book was riddled with cliches. (The interview with the Italian guy who describes the girls as bellisima while kissing his fingertips LITERALLY made me cringe)

Overall, weak plot, weak twist, poorly developed characters, but a fast-paced read that does leave you wanting to know what happened, even if that desire hits a wall at the end of the novel.
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Dena
4.0 out of 5 stars A Fantastic Psychological YA Thriller
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
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Oh boy, this book was addicting to read. Once I got into the story, there was no stopping. I just HAD to know what would happen next.

It starts off a little slow, with Jill waking up in the hospital and learning she was in a major car accident in Italy, but she can't remember a thing. As time goes on, she learns that it may not have been an accident. Suddenly, she has an expensive lawyer, detectives, and paparazzi milling around her.

I loved the way the suspense slowly builds up in the story. There's a gradual release of clues that had me going crazy with suspense. I suspected everyone of being the bad guy, even people that couldn't possibly have had anything to do with the accident.

The ending was different. Things didn't get wrapped up neatly with a little bow, but the story was completed nicely. The characters are complicated, nobody is who they seem on the surface.

Cover love: Oh yes, I love this cover. It's a simple, yet effective. It's a beautiful photo of an idyllic Italian town, with the title scrawled across the top in a sinister looking font.

Content: Language (including f-bombs).
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heidi
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2017
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very Amanda Knox. An interesting read and liked most of it but the ending felt a little rushed. Good read but didn't really round off with answers.
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JC
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in Canada on August 17, 2021
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I bought this on kindle immediatly after finishing "You owe me a murder". This one also kept me on edge for most of the book. Eileen Cook has a way to swerve readers whenever I felt like I had the mystery all figured out. I really hope her books will be made into movies or tv series.
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Tomes with Tea
5.0 out of 5 stars ... is a fast-paced YA thriller about two high school best friends about to start the next chapter in their ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 30, 2017
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With Malice is a fast-paced YA thriller about two high school best friends about to start the next chapter in their lives. Jill wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember the last six weeks of her life. Not even the trip of a lifetime to Italy she had planned. Not that her best friend Simone is dead and especially not that she is the one that is accused of killing her.

"One of the most primal survival instincts the brain has is finding pattern and assigning meaning" 

With Malice was exactly what I was looking for at the time and got me out of my reading slump in the most enjoyable way possible. What I loved most about this book is the fact that you are taken on a journey with Jill, finding out the same time as her, exactly what happened six weeks ago in Italy.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Too Similar to Dangerous Girls!
Reviewed in Germany on September 8, 2016
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The beginning. Right from the very beginning, we are thrown into the events of what happened, with no actual knowledge of it. We know as much as the MC does and how much the MC family decides to disclose. The mystery of it all was what kept me hooked at the beginning.
I liked the fact that the MC didn’t know anything that was happening because of the injuries she sustained. It was realistically done and this kind of thing does actually happen on a day to day basis.
The use of Social media and the media in general was also pretty good. When something like this hits the news, people do tend to flock to social media to talk about what happened, whether it is good or bad. People also tend to be swayed pretty heavily by media itself, so whether they are spinning a good or bad light on the person involved, is generally the direction that comments on social media will take!
The way in which it was written with interviews, news reports etc, interspersed between chapters was pretty interesting. We have the view from the MC and what she is hearing and getting on a day to day life basis and then we have it from the other side of people hitting social media, the media themselves and the police force and the people they are interviewing. It gave an extra insight into the characters from the opinions of the people who are supposed to know them because they taught them or they went to school with them etc. The extra insight helped to really get into the minds of the characters.
Dislikes:

It was TOO much like Dangerous Girls. I don’t want to say too much… but the news reports, the way in which it happened in a country that is not the MC’s own, the doubt from people around them, the way in which the case itself was built against the MC… even the ending was pretty similar! I was holding out hope that it would be something completely different, but it wasn’t… which was a shame! I don’t want a Dangerous Girls part two, I want something unique!
The ending felt rushed. The explanation and the way in which it ended all happened way too fast. I think it could have may been stretched out from earlier on so that the build up was a little better. I felt like the build up toward to explanation was lacking and then I was info dumped by what had actually happened.
Some of characters were really irritating! Like, the lawyer. Lawyers wouldn’t usually act like that (or so I would hope) so it felt a little unrealistic to me. HE was the kind of guy that constantly gets under your skin and you just want to punch him in the face. AS well as the father!
It sometimes felt a little slow plot wise. I don’t know whether this was just me, but some parts were a little dry and I had to push myself through it!
I wanted to see more from and about Nico! He was a majorly suspicious character for me and could have easily swinger around to him. I disliked him from the get go, but I still wanted more from him!
All in all, whilst I vaguely enjoyed this book, it was too much like Dangerous Girls for me to actually fully enjoy it. I was getting a watered down version of an amazing book where I wanted something unique and with its own story! I gave this book 2.5/5.
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3.0 out of 5 stars And excellent modern horror story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 28, 2017
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And excellent modern horror story.

I’m glad I read this book but I wouldn’t read it a second time. It’s a page-turner, and the title gives you a good clue as to why – the characters, all of them, are subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) malicious so the page turning is about disgust and the gloating need for more disgust. Although it has an American apple-pie happy-ever-after ending, in fact the ending is even more horrible than the rest of the book.

Cook is, I think, extremely insightful about her fellow Americans, and cleverly honest about why they are how they are. For me, the one sentence in the book that drives this home is “… my dad huffing and puffing about how he insisted on the top tier of care.” That will likely seem normal and innocuous to most Americans, to us in Europe and especially Britain it does not. It’s unthinkable to us that anyone would not be given the best care possible because they couldn’t pay for it! But the USA seems to run on money, money as kudos as comes over in the story very well, money as power, money as the most necessary thing to have, and it seems the USA cannot conceive of any human beings who don’t run on this. This, in its turn, shows us why the USA fail to understand how anyone else outside their borders lives and thinks. I find that both horrifying and terrifying, With Malice shows it very well.

The book also shows the innate American naivety which this fixation that money is the root of all good brings about, and the selfishness. I’m not quite certain if Cook intends this or, perhaps, how far she intends it, that may be because this is the first book of hers that I’ve read so I don’t know her very well at all.

The story is based around the story of how Amanda Knox was accused and convicted of the murder, in 2007, of her British friend and roommate Meredith Kercher. In the story the two girls are both American but come from different class-structures, the heroine, Jilly, being rich and intellectual while the victim, Simone, is poor and pretty and good with getting people to like her. For me, this is quite stereotyped but I’m willing to believe it may be true and real-life in the States. Like in the real Amanda Knox event, Cook’s heroine, Jilly, is said to have killed her friend over a boyfriend. Eventually, come the end of the story, the authorities think it was the boyfriend whodunit as happened in the Knox event, although the man doesn’t seem to go to prison. The heroine is well drawn, I think, though I don’t know any American teenage girls it feels right, and so are the other characters, friends, parents, lawyers, etc, with the exception of the Italian boyfriend who seems very two-dimensional. Having had Italian boyfriends myself I’d suggest Cook tries one as they’re far more 3D than she’s drawn here.

I didn’t find myself liking any of the characters, I would never want to meet any of them and this makes the book something of a hard read. It also made me skip lots of times and search for the pieces of information I wanted rather than read it consecutively as I do with books I’m enjoying. It’s that malice again. I was hooked, drawn by the malice because of disgust and dislike, wanting to know whodunit because I disliked the characters.
So why, after all that rather negative stuff, do I say I’m glad I read the book? Because, unfortunately, I think it’s a very good portrait of America. For me, it makes a lot of sense as to why so many people voted for Trump. It includes a massive ignorance of anywhere else in the world; for instance, one teenage friend says, “I don’t think they have 911 in Italy…” Pardon? That’s staggering, that a supposedly well-educated 18-year-old American girl doesn’t know that Italy is a modern civilised country, far more so in many ways than the USA. But perhaps that’s why. Perhaps Americans cannot bear to believe that anywhere is better than they are. Hence my feeling about Trump, folk who think like that would indeed be so dumb as to inflict Trump on the rest of the world. I also have a sneaking suspicion that this teenager would attempt to dial 911 here in Britain, never having even conceived that our ways could possibly be different, and she might need to learn them. I’ve had several driving experiences, with American friends at the wheel over here, where they did what was natural to them at home and damn near caused accidents. And then their excuse was, proudly, that’s what they’d do at home! That, too, is horrifying.

So, With Malice, is worth a read as an eyeopener (should you need one) into how America works. But, like I said, it’s not a book I’d read a second time. For me, it’s a horror story, subtle and ubiquitous because you may never know when you’re actually with people like this, and so even more horror.
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