BOOK 1 OF JOSIE BROWN’S NEW 3-NOVEL EPISODIC SERIES:Audrey Thorpe’s dirty little secret will soon be the downfall of everyone and everything she holds dear: love, family, friends, and her private high school alma mater.It’s your child’s senior year. A private high school’s reputation is at stake. Students have only one more shot at the SAT before college applications are due. And a few desperate … desperate parents with much more money than brains are willing to do anything to get their children into Ivy League colleges.In EXTRACURRICULAR, a dark family secret leads to a college admissions cheating scandal at a private school, setting off a crisis of conscience for the parents, teachers, administrator, and the students involved-And a catharsis for one couple about their marriage.
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I loved how Josie Brown set up this book. It opens with two detectives on an undercover operation, the goal being to collect evidence in the biggest admissions scandal ever seen. But this is actually book 2! As one of the (possibly) major players enters the conversation, the book transitions into what is really book 1.
Now for book 1. Book 1 takes place in an exclusive, private prep school. Headmistress Lavinia prefers to focus on students’ free will and artistic expression. A large chunk of the students are on scholarships, as Lavinia truly aims to allow all students a chance to thrive.
Her daughter, Audrey, attends the school, and immediately starts crushing on the new, young English teacher. As do most of the other students. Aaaaaand, the drama and backstabbing ensues.
This book isn’t about the admissions scandal, but it sets up Book 2’s admissions scandal wonderfully.
What I loved most about this book is the debate team aspect. I was on the debate, second place speaker in the county in fact, and I just loved reliving my youth through these scenes.
If you like young adult themes in an adult’s book, you’ll really love this book. And I promise you, you will want to start Book 2 right away.
Josie Brown has hit it out of the ballpark with this timely tale of family, friends, love and the morally corrupt.
As always, Ms. Brown’s writing is sharp, smart, and oh-so witty. She’ll have you laughing out loud one minute and cringing the next at her characters’ antics and comments. Filled with twist and turns and complicated emotions that lead to decisions that play pivotal moments in the characters lives this story will reach out and grab your attention from page one and not let go until the end.
And just as I am with my favorite TV show (Lucifer), I now sit on tenterhooks awaiting the next release to find out who will be going down and who will be saved.
Great read. Thanks.
Master storyteller of the competitive elite, Totlandia’s Josie Brown graduates from strollers and playgroups to the high stakes game of college admissions in this captivating tale of trickery, deceit, and unrequited love. Told across three episodic novels, in Book 1, meet the movers, the shakers, and the dirty-deal makers that, together, establish a page-turning premise to carry us forward: It’s the tiny twists of fate that change us. A++ for Extracurricular!
I did not finish this book. Juvenile and boring. More for teenagers and young adult women.
After having read all of the Housewife Assassin series, this was a letdown. There were bits of the snappy writing seen, but the story wasn’t as cohesive as the aforementioned series. Maybe I expected too much for this time relevant story and there were parts that pulled the reader in, just not to stay.