Best friends Taylor and Sierra meet a hot guy in a chat room online. Both fall for Jacob's charms, but as usual, the more outgoing and vivacious Sierra overshadows Taylor and wins his attention. Taylor's devastated - Sierra already kissed Callum, Taylor's secret crush, over the summer holidays. Life's not fair, especially when Sierra's around.Moving quickly, Sierra sets up a date with Jacob on Friday after school. She asks Taylor and their friends to cover for her. Even though she's upset, Taylor is still Sierra's best friend and agrees to help. But Sierra abuses the favour and calls to say she's going to spend the night with her date. She doesn't come home all weekend, doesn't answer her phone and nobody's heard from her. Taylor is torn. She doesn't want to betray Sierra by telling her parents but at the same time she's concerned for her welfare. Finally, Callum convinces her to tell. The police are called and their worst fears are confirmed when Sierra's body is found miles from Melbourne a week later.Devastated, Taylor becomes obsessed with finding Sierra's killer. As clues emerge, Taylor races against time to try and save the predator's next victim. As new.
Best friends Taylor and Sierra meet a hot guy in a chat room online. Both fall for Jacob's charms, but as usual, the more outgoing and vivacious Sierra overshadows Taylor and wins his attention. Taylor's devastated - Sierra already kissed Callum, Taylor's secret crush, over the summer holidays. Life's not fair, especially when Sierra's around.Moving quickly, Sierra sets up a date with Jacob on Friday after school. She asks Taylor and their friends to cover for her. Even though she's upset, Taylor is still Sierra's best friend and agrees to help. But Sierra abuses the favour and calls to say she's going to spend the night with her date. She doesn't come home all weekend, doesn't answer her phone and nobody's heard from her. Taylor is torn. She doesn't want to betray Sierra by telling her parents but at the same time she's concerned for her welfare. Finally, Callum convinces her to tell. The police are called and their worst fears are confirmed when Sierra's body is found miles from Melbourne a week later.Devastated, Taylor becomes obsessed with finding Sierra's killer. As clues emerge, Taylor races against time to try and save the predator's next victim. As new.
Risk, Fleur Ferris
Best friends Taylor and Sierra meet a hot guy in a chat room online. Both fall for Jacob's charms, but as usual, the more outgoing and vivacious Sierra overshadows Taylor and wins his attention. Taylor's devastated - Sierra already kissed Callum, Taylor's secret crush, over the summer holidays. Life's not fair, especially when Sierra's around.Moving quickly, Sierra sets up a date with Jacob on Friday after school. She asks Taylor and their friends to cover for her. Even though she's upset, Taylor is still Sierra's best friend and agrees to help. But Sierra abuses the favour and calls to say she's going to spend the night with her date. She doesn't come home all weekend, doesn't answer her phone and nobody's heard from her. Taylor is torn. She doesn't want to betray Sierra by telling her parents but at the same time she's concerned for her welfare. Finally, Callum convinces her to tell. The police are called and their worst fears are confirmed when Sierra's body is found miles from Melbourne a week later.Devastated, Taylor becomes obsessed with finding Sierra's killer. As clues emerge, Taylor races against time to try and save the predator's next victim. As new.
Best friends Taylor and Sierra meet a hot guy in a chat room online. Both fall for Jacob's charms, but as usual, the more outgoing and vivacious Sierra overshadows Taylor and wins his attention. Taylor's devastated - Sierra already kissed Callum, Taylor's secret crush, over the summer holidays. Life's not fair, especially when Sierra's around.Moving quickly, Sierra sets up a date with Jacob on Friday after school. She asks Taylor and their friends to cover for her. Even though she's upset, Taylor is still Sierra's best friend and agrees to help. But Sierra abuses the favour and calls to say she's going to spend the night with her date. She doesn't come home all weekend, doesn't answer her phone and nobody's heard from her. Taylor is torn. She doesn't want to betray Sierra by telling her parents but at the same time she's concerned for her welfare. Finally, Callum convinces her to tell. The police are called and their worst fears are confirmed when Sierra's body is found miles from Melbourne a week later.Devastated, Taylor becomes obsessed with finding Sierra's killer. As clues emerge, Taylor races against time to try and save the predator's next victim. As new.
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A must read. A truly moving story. It could happen so easily to any of our kids . If the book could make just one teenager think about there actions online then hopefully it could save a lot of heart break.... A book for all school lists.
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I think all parents of teenagers and teenagers themselves should read this book. It is based on fact and describes the consequences met by a girl meeting a man over the Internet and the affect on her family and friends.
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I purchased this book to give to my granddaughter in her early teens. It was so good I had to buy it for my other granddaughter. I have subsequently bought all of Fleur Ferris books that I can find. I read them myself first and like them. The subject matters are perfect for teens and young adults. The stories are well written, exciting and keep readers interested. And the bonus....and aussie author.
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A must read. A truly moving story. It could happen so easily to any of our kids . If the book could make just one teenager think about there actions online then hopefully it could save a lot of heart break.... A book for all school lists.
I think all parents of teenagers and teenagers themselves should read this book. It is based on fact and describes the consequences met by a girl meeting a man over the Internet and the affect on her family and friends.
I purchased this book to give to my granddaughter in her early teens. It was so good I had to buy it for my other granddaughter. I have subsequently bought all of Fleur Ferris books that I can find. I read them myself first and like them. The subject matters are perfect for teens and young adults. The stories are well written, exciting and keep readers interested. And the bonus....and aussie author.
I absolutely love this book and also loved the author's other well written book 'black'. Could not put either book down and was so upset when i finished the books as i wanted to just keep reading more and more! Hopefully the author is in the midst of writting yet another great book. Ill be on the look out for it most definitely. Loved it 10 out 10!
My job as a Library Technician running a middle school library involves checking new books for appropriate content.While cataloguing, 'RISK' caught my attention. On reading the blurb I became very interested. Working with children and the popularity of Facebook and online chat, etc., I became even more interested and had to read on. I finished the book in a very short time as I could not put it down. As a parent I know only too well how true this story can be. I became an emotional wreck and my heart strings were being pulled and my heart ripped apart. I felt absolute devastation and I was totally numb. I knew stuff like this happened but the ease of it happening and what Online Predators can do just astounded me!Do our children really know who they are talking ... MoreMy job as a Library Technician running a middle school library involves checking new books for appropriate content.While cataloguing, 'RISK' caught my attention. On reading the blurb I became very interested. Working with children and the popularity of Facebook and online chat, etc., I became even more interested and had to read on. I finished the book in a very short time as I could not put it down. As a parent I know only too well how true this story can be. I became an emotional wreck and my heart strings were being pulled and my heart ripped apart. I felt absolute devastation and I was totally numb. I knew stuff like this happened but the ease of it happening and what Online Predators can do just astounded me!Do our children really know who they are talking to? These predators are masters at what they do. It is so easy to get sucked in to their world. They tell you what you want to hear and feed on your vulnerability. You become caught up in the moment and unbeknown to yourself you are feeding them personal information about yourself, without even realising what they are doing. Online Predators are masters of this game! Information is retrieved by you just being online! Scary to think how easy this information is obtained! They seek information about what your interests are and then they make it sound like you both have so much in common. You are like 'Soul Mates'!RISK is a story of - Hope, love, loyalty, friendship, betrayal, deceit, loss, devastation and tragedy. Unfortunately this is a very real part of our online life.I recommend that all parents/grandparent and anyone who has a beating heart read RISK. Please encourage your children to read RISK as well. It can happen to any one of our beautiful children. It is our job as parents to protect and ensure that our children are aware of these very real dangers.RISK does contain very sensitive and real issues and coarse language. In the scheme of things I think the coarse language is the least of your worries when you read this book. The content is so applicable to our technological way of life. Children as young as 13, can legally have online accounts. I know that children younger than this have accounts and are actively involved in online chats.Cyber bullying and online grooming is very real. Cyber Predators are just waiting to lure our children. For the sake and safety of our precious children please read RISK.I believe that this book should be included in the curriculum and I have recommended a class set be purchased for our school.Well done Fleur Ferris this book is amazing!
Risk by Fleur Ferris is a young adult novel about a teenage girl that decides to meet up with a guy that she had only chatted to online, and after meeting with him she disappears. It's a story about the dangers of the internet and how, young people in particular, are easy targets for online predators, but in addition to that, it's also a story about grief. This quote really hit me: Something black is inside me, lurking just out of reach. I can't quite grasp it, but it's there, heavy, filling every crevice as I move. (Page 100.) I'm pretty certain that if I wasn't already crying by this time, I was very close to it.Ferris was able to capture reality and bring it to life on the page so successfully that at the beginning of the story I was cringing at the way Taylor ... MoreRisk by Fleur Ferris is a young adult novel about a teenage girl that decides to meet up with a guy that she had only chatted to online, and after meeting with him she disappears. It's a story about the dangers of the internet and how, young people in particular, are easy targets for online predators, but in addition to that, it's also a story about grief. This quote really hit me: Something black is inside me, lurking just out of reach. I can't quite grasp it, but it's there, heavy, filling every crevice as I move. (Page 100.) I'm pretty certain that if I wasn't already crying by this time, I was very close to it.Ferris was able to capture reality and bring it to life on the page so successfully that at the beginning of the story I was cringing at the way Taylor and Sierra spoke and acted as well as the way that their feelings changed so quickly from one minute to the next. I was cringing because that was me when I was a teenager. I would gush and jump up and down and squeal and get excited over any boy that simply looked my way. As much as I'd like to think that as a teenager I spoke like the characters from a John Green novel (note: I'm a big fan of John Green's books!), the truth is that I spoke and thought just like the characters in Risk.I thought that the interaction between Sierra's mum, Rachel, and Taylor was really well done because parents are human too, and their ways of grieving and their reactions to tragic events aren't perfect or always what we expect. It would have been easy for Ferris to portray Rachel as forgiving and understanding in her grief, as I think that is the way that most of us would like to be in such situations, but it would have been much less honest. And that's really what I love about this book, it is an honest interpretation of teenagers and parents dealing with a tragic event that could happen to anyone.It was so accurate that it was frightening, and it made me glad that Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc. didn't exist when I was a teenager because it was hard enough just dealing with all the heightened emotions and changes that a teenager goes through without having such a public place to share absolutely everything for the whole world to see. Even though I could totally relate to Taylor and Sierra, I'm not so sure that I would have met up with a stranger that I had only spoken to online. That kind of thing has always freaked me out a bit, and I don't know if it's simply that things have changed and that people now growing up with the kinds of technology that weren't around when I was a teen (hell, digital cameras were only just creeping onto the mainstream market when I was in high school) are just automatically trusting of it, but I've always been aware of the danger in meeting up with a stranger. The internet and social media have become such an integral part of people's lives that they are now main forms of communication. And no matter the reasons or the problems associated with technology, it is important that we, as a society, ensure that there is an understanding of the risks that we all take when we communicate with or share things with people online, and this book is helping to make teenagers and parents alike aware of the dangers as well as precautions that can be taken. I really applaud Ferris for writing this book, it was highly enjoyable and educational all at the same time.
This is a brilliant book – more so for the experience of a young girl falling victim to an online predator & all of the education this tale supplies. Being honest, I put this book down halfway through because I was getting really frustrated with the protagonist Taylor & her best friend Sierra. They were annoyingly ******, secretive, & well… realistically teen girls. I just wanted to shake them & force them to wake up to how idiotic and reckless their behavior was. So I see putting the book down for a while not as a sign of bad writing, pacing, or character development; but of how immersed I was in the story. The strength of my emotional reaction to the situation.Upon picking up the book again, it was evident that the narrative quickly changed and the pace stepped ... MoreThis is a brilliant book – more so for the experience of a young girl falling victim to an online predator & all of the education this tale supplies. Being honest, I put this book down halfway through because I was getting really frustrated with the protagonist Taylor & her best friend Sierra. They were annoyingly ******, secretive, & well… realistically teen girls. I just wanted to shake them & force them to wake up to how idiotic and reckless their behavior was. So I see putting the book down for a while not as a sign of bad writing, pacing, or character development; but of how immersed I was in the story. The strength of my emotional reaction to the situation.Upon picking up the book again, it was evident that the narrative quickly changed and the pace stepped up even more. From ******-stubborn-reckless teen girls obsessed with boys, to a high-stakes ****** mystery. I was really taken on a ride with 'Risk.' I was triggered. But in a good way.'Risk' follows Taylor's story & involvement in her best friend Sierra's relationship with a boy she meets online, her eventual abduction & the events that follow on thereafter. The scary part is that is all feels too real, so conceivable. Taylor & Sierra are so quintessentially those teen girls that long for this epic love story, pushing their parents away because, like, they don't get it. They don't realise their parents are looking out for them. The girls just want the romance. They don't realise that they are ripe for an experienced child predator to step in with a routine, 'grooming' the girls to a meet up in real life. And that's when the real scary stuff kicks in.
After reading this book, I am more aware of strangers on the internet and I know the risks that follow. This book should be read by all age groups. These days, children are talking to complete strangers without know the risk. I read this book when I was younger and it made me realised that it could have happened to me. I personally want to thank the author for writing Risk and letting people know the risks online. 5-star rating. Must read if haven't!!!
I actually hate this book. It makes my brain rot, I'd rather hang from my balls in a completely dark room for 400 years than read this again.
I'm from S.Korea and i read this book yesterday. I really love it. I cannot even explain how much i like this book with my broken English.. i feel like taylor is similar to me. We have a lot of common ground... I'm going to lend this book to my friend today. thank u for writing a great book.
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