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I Know You Did It (TikTok made me buy it - the perfect killer thriller!)

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What are the odds the both of them would be accused of such heinous crimes and exonerated and found not guilty?

the story was suspenseful enough, though i managed to correctly the guess the killer of both crimes early on, which i think was quite obvious/easy once you’re deep into both narratives, and have picked up on enough hints. For some strange reason I went into this book believing it would be a mediocre novel but instead I was pleasantly surprised with plot twists and well-developed characters (some more likeable than others). all in all, decent mystery and interesting story, but i can’t say it was anything memorable or mind blowing. There was one thing, though, that really annoyed me throughout the book, and that was the repetitiveness.Like Hewitt, Gellar was also known to American audiences at the time for her roles in television, primarily as the titular Buffy Summers on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A story that follows a high school student exploring the struggles of moving schools and even a murderer on the loose. A secret from her past threatens to detonate her present… On her first day at a new school, Ruby finds a note in her locker saying I Know You Did It. Sue Wallman captures the essence of High School so well, especially the different groups of pupils and the relationships between pupils (the falling ins and falling outs), the student newsletter (the Robinson Record) and the isolation some pupils feel at school and I think teen readers may relate to some of these issues.

I was also a massive fan of Georgia at the start but I did suspect her to be the killer- which she was- but I didn’t think she would’ve don’t that to Jim. An enjoyable domestic noir with interesting characters and inevitable twists – an above average three-and-a half-star rating. But what would happen if a child-killer like the one who killed Jon-Benet was exonerated on appeal, grew up, changed her name, and then stumbled upon another murder way too close to home? Now she’s petrified someone knows about the death of young girl she caused many years ago and the incident she ran away from is following her. Think of it as a kind of Gossip Girl with gore and credible characters, capable of offering the younger audience at which it is aimed an unexpected series of implicit questions about how well we know ourselves, each other, and what each of us might find ourselves capable of doing if truly tested.

However, what was most outstanding is how it manages to conceal the killer's identity even when deep down, you know who it is. Unlike Williamson's screenplay for the film's contemporary, Scream, which incorporated satire of the slasher film, I Know What You Did Last Summer was written more as a straightforward slasher film. Started out great, you can tell the author works in a school but sometimes it leaned over too far into the cultural references.

I dont understand why Scott randomly told the protagonist so much, why we never found out how Isaac knew so much about Ruby's last school and the twists at the end were predictable and yet kinda out of the left field annoying. As Rachel is walking her dog in the English woodlands, she comes across a body but runs away, failing to report it to police or even check for life signs. Twenty years, when she was known as Casey; as a young nanny, the family she worked for were brutally murdered, all the evidence pointed to her and she went to prison. After that, we’re off and running through a pacy plot offering plenty of potential killer-candidates, before the gang’s focus narrows to one seeming impossibility, and inventive deaths (I’d avert your eyes from Coach Eric – you’ll know when).

It still centres on a hit-and-run accident perpetrated one summer by a gang of teens, and the serial killer who stalks them a year later. So in the present she is now Rachel with and she looks different but she now finds herself as the prime suspect with incriminating evidence against her is history about to repeat itself? In September 2014, Sony Pictures revealed plans to remake the film, with Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard writing the script.

The film was followed by I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) and I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006). The film inevitably drew both positive and negative comparisons to Scream, also written by Williamson.She spots a coat on the ground in the distance that looks like it was carelessly abandoned by its owner. According to Gillespie, the filmmakers nearly lost the boat while attempting to dock it due to the volatile waters, after which they were forced to leave and shoot other footage until the following day.

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