Shock Point Review


Cassie a main character of the Shock Point is a troubled teen that is sent a camp in Mexico that doesn't understand why. She is having problems with everyday life and is having troubles getting along with her stepfather who has persuaded her mother that she needed to go to the camp.
Cassie was always told that she was a troubled teen by her stepfather who was a teen counselor sent her without warning to a place that was called Peaceful Cove, which was a boot camp in Mexico for troubled teens. Cassie's father convinced her mom that she needed to go even when he said it was for her own good when he really knew that it was a prison for teens that were sent away because they got into trouble for things in their life.
Cassie knows the real reason why Rick her stepfather wants to get rid of her, he has been prescribing a drug called Socom, an experimental drug that he is giving to his patients. And Cassie knows that he will make a lot of money if the drug is successful to prescribe to teens, but what Cassie knows will ruin his career for the rest of his life. The drug that he prescribed has killed three of his patients have died after taking the pill for depression.
But Cassie has also discovered the truth about Peaceful Cove too. It's really a brutal prison where teens get beaten and made to work in the hot sun all day without water or food all day, which also kills kids without the proper nutrition before doing hard labor. But the only way that you can get out of the prison is if you graduate that is if she can survive the beatings everyday...But if she gets out will anyone believe her?


I thought this book was very good but in some parts of it I felt like I was a little bit rushed...but it was a very interesting book and it was a major page turner. I would definitely recommend this book to people who like life thrillers and are always assumers of what's going to happen next. This book will definitely surprise you in the outcome of the story and it will surprise you when you get to the end.

SHOCK POINT was exciting and hard to put down. I really enjoyed reading this thrilling mystery and will look for future books from April Henry.

This is a book that once you start it, you won't put it down until you've reached the last page.

The plot works, and the writing is clear. A great read for the middle grade student.

In case you were wondering, there is a modern master of YA suspense. Her name is April Henry, and her book SHOCK POINT will take you to that place where an evil stepparent can ruin your life and being sent away to school can be more dangerous than you ever imagined.

Cassie Streng is your average high school girl living in a new town with a new stepfather, who is a child psychiatrist. But when Cassie discovers that the experimental drug, Socom, he has been prescribing led to the suicide of three teenagers, she becomes his next target. She is abducted from her own driveway and taken across the border to Peaceful Cove, a Mexican boot camp for troubled teens. The rules at Peaceful Cove are only the beginning of the horrors that Cassie faces at this "school." As her stepfather works to put the drug on the market, Cassie must find a way to escape Peaceful Cove and let the public know the truth -- before it's too late to save herself and future Socom patients.

These are my three favorite things about SHOCK POINT:
1. Cassie believes in her own strength as she fights against the injustice around her.
2. Cassie holds friendship and loyalty above her own well-being.
3. This book kept my blood pressure up and my muscles ready to run. I felt Cassie's pain and determination.

This is my favorite quote from SHOCK POINT: "So it's like Ritalin, Prozac, and a mother's prayers combined?"