A Million Times Goodnight

by Kristina McBride

Overview

One night. Two paths. Infinite danger.

On the night of the big spring break party, seventeen-year-old Hadley "borrows" her boyfriend Ben's car without telling him. As payback, he posts a naked picture of her online for the entire senior class to see.

Now Hadley has a choice. She can go back to the party and force Ben to delete the picture. Or she can raise the stakes and take his beloved car on a road trip as far away from their hometown of Oak Grove, Ohio, as she can get.

Each storyline plays out in alternating chapters. In one strand, Hadley embarks on a reckless adventure with her best friends, spinning the perfect plan for revenge. In the other, stuck in a car with her ex-boyfriend, Josh, she's forced to revisit the mistakes they each made, including whether they should ever have broken up at all. As events of a wild night race toward an explosive conclusion, old feelings are rekindled, friendships are tested, and secrets uncovered that are so much worse than a scandalous photo.

A Million Times Goodnight is a fast-paced romantic contemporary thriller ripped right from the headlines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510704039
Publisher:	Sky Pony Press
Publication date:	07/05/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	810 KB
Age Range:	14 Years

About the Author

Kristina McBride is a former English teacher and yearbook advisor. She dreamed of being a published author since she lived across the street from a library as a kid. She is the author of two previous novels, The Tension of Opposites and One Moment. She lives in Centerville, Ohio with her husband and two young children.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Kristina McBride:

"A fast-paced thriller with plot twists, intrigue, and revelations practically on every page. . . . Clever, taut storytelling." — Kirkus Reviews on A Million Times Goodnight

"This is a wild ride.” — School Library Journal on A Million Times Goodnight

" A Million Times Goodnight explores the power we all have to alter our own future." —Gwendolyn Heasley, author of Don't Call Me Baby and Where I Belong

"Tense! The constant push and pull of frienship, pain, love, and jealousy is beautifully drawn. A definite must read." —Jay Asher, New York Times bestselling author of Thirteen Reasons Why and The Future of Us on The Tension of Opposites

"Infused with page-turning mystery, One Moment is as heartbreakingly real as it is unexpectedly romantic." —Cat Patrick, author of Forgotten and Revived

" One Moment took my breath away. Beautifully written, achingly romantic, and so much tension the pages seem like they're turning themselves. One of the best books I've read in ages. —Lauren Barnholdt, author of Two-Way Street

"A page-turner that grabbed me by the throat, and was impossible to put down!"—Katrina Kittle, author of Reasons to Be Happy on One Moment

"Kristina McBride has written a poignant, heartbreaking tale of how one moment in a person's life can change everything. . . . [A] a worthy addition to teen collections." — VOYA on One Moment

"McBride's story of death's effect on the living is both artistic and authentic." — Booklist on One Moment

"McBride . . . skillfully interweaves Maggie's flashes of memory with present action, making for a tense and absorbing psychological mystery . . ." — Publishers Weekly on One Moment

From the Publisher

06/01/2016
Gr 8 Up—Seventeen-year-old Hadley steals her boyfriend Ben's car and leaves a party to take a ride with her two best friends. In retaliation, Ben posts a naked photo of Hadley to Facebook. Hadley and her friends run into Josh, her old flame who has become a social pariah since he killed a girl with his car last year. Together, the four teens have to decide whether to drive back to the party and confront Ben, or hit the road and get as far from home as possible. The narrative splits at this point, with alternating chapters telling a similar story: in one, Hadley and Josh go on a road trip, and in the other, all four teens head back to the party. By making this choice, the author gets a chance to pack double the action into a single book. This is a wild ride, featuring stolen cars, drugs, and guns. It also deals with rape, pornography rings, and underage drinking. Yet all these heavy topics are treated as inconveniences, things for the characters to worry about briefly before making revenge plans. The police are called at the very last minute, after characters, plot, and scheme complicate things. The tone is sassy and not remotely believable. There are expository monologues that sometimes stop the pacing in its tracks. VERDICT Readers who are looking for a fast-paced thriller with a touch of romance may enjoy this title. Skip otherwise.—Geri Diorio, Ridgefield Library, CT

School Library Journal

2016-04-13
Hadley spends the night of her life facing two different but equally dangerous paths.It's the night of the big spring-break party, and 17-year-old Hadley and her two best friends "borrow" Hadley's boyfriend's BMW without permission to revisit the scene of their friend Penny's death, exactly one year before. In retaliation, her boyfriend, Ben, posts a naked picture of Hadley on Facebook and won't take it down until Hadley returns his car. Hadley must decide: go back to the party and make Ben take down the picture or take a road trip far away from Oak Grove, Ohio, the mostly white suburb where she and her friends live. Subsequent chapters alternate between the fallout from Hadley's return to the party to confront Ben and revealing what would happen if she takes the road trip instead. Both paths put Hadley and her friends in serious danger as they uncover terrible truths about what really happened to Penny. The novel is a fast-paced thriller with plot twists, intrigue, and revelations practically on every page. While the story offers a rekindled romance and wild adventure, its characters are disappointingly flat. Hadley has moxie, but otherwise she and her friends are fairly cookie-cutter teens.Clever, taut storytelling helps to overcome bland characterization. (Thriller. 13-17)

Kirkus Reviews