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The Champions
The Champions | Kara Thomas
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From the author of The Cheerleaders comes another dark YA thriller set in the same town of Sunnybrook. When a mysterious accident befalls a member of the all-star high school football team, the town's deadly history stands to repeat itselfand the price of discovering the truth is higher than anyone could imagine. It was the deaths of five cheerleaders that made the town of Sunnybrook infamous. Eleven years later, the girls' killer has been brought to justice, and the town just wants to move on. By the time Hadley moves to Sunnybrook, though, the locals are more interested in the Tigers, the high school's championship-winning football team. The Tigers are Sunnybrooks homegrown heroes--something positive in a town with so much darkness in its past. Hadley could care less about football, but shortly after she gets assigned to cover the team's latest championship bid for the school newspaper, one of the Tigers is poisoned at a party, and almost immediately after, Hadley starts getting strange emails warning her to stay far away from the football team. It's becoming clear Sunnybrook's golden boys have secrets, and after a second player is mysteriously killed, Hadleys beginning to suspect that someone wants the team to pay for their sins. Or does this new target on the football team have something to do with what happened to the cheerleaders all those years ago? As an outsider in Sunnybrook, Hadley feels like she's the only one who can see the present clearly, but it looks like shes going to have to dig up the darkness of the past to get to the bottom of whats happening now. Luckily, there are still some Sunnybrook High grads who never left--people who were around eleven years agoand if she can just convince them to talk, she might be able stop a killer before another Tiger dies.
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Eleven years after the events of The Cheerleaders (which I really enjoyed but is not necessary to read first), a member of the local football team ends up in the hospital under mysterious circumstances. Intrepid student reporter Hadley starts investigating and finds fire where there‘s smoke. This one may have tried to squeeze a bit too much in, but I still enjoyed it.

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4.5⭐
-part 2 of The Cheerleaders but with football players
-YA mystery thriller
-told from the POV of a high school journalist
-high school sports, fame, and the lengths people will go to protect a cherished institution
-dark & atmospheric
-complex and twisty
-Brittany Pressley is my favorite narrator, so the performance was fantastic.