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Prepped | Bethany Mangle
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For fans of Jeff Zentner and Katie Henry comes a thrilling and funny debut about a teen raised in a doomsday community who plots her escape with the boy from the bunker next door. Always be ready for the worst day of your life. This is the mantra that Becca Aldaine has grown up with. Her family is part of a community of doomsday preppers, a neighborhood that prioritizes survivalist training over class trips or senior prom. Theyre even arranging Beccas marriage with Roy Kang, the only eligible boy in their community. Roy is a nice guy, but hes so enthusiastic about prepping that Becca doesnt have the heart to tell him shes planning to leave as soon as she can earn a full ride to a college far, far away. Then a devastating accident rocks Beccas family and pushes the entire community, including Beccas usually cynical little sister, deeper into the doomsday ideology. With her getaway plans thrown into jeopardy, the only person Becca can turn to is Roy, who reveals that hes not nearly as clueless as hes been pretending to be. When Roy proposes they run away together, Becca will have to risk everythingincluding her heartfor a chance to hope for the best instead of planning for the worst.
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JennO1
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My daughter picked this up as a summer read from the school library so I decided to sneak it in before she starts back up in a few weeks. Quick and enjoyable YA read about teens growing up in a doomsday cult.

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Moonprismpower
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Becca and Roy‘s story is so plausible. There are people prepping for end of world scenarios in hardcore ways that are negatively impacting their children. I ran alongside these two teens as they struggled to escape the paranoia and abuse planning and fighting and surviving any way they could. It was a page turner.

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Reggie
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Becca is a senior in high school counting the days down until she can escape into a life different than what she knows. She belongs to a doomsday prepper community where her father is the leader. Something horrible happens that causes the community to tighten its grip on its members. This was great. Mangle had some nice turn of phrase and humor in between these agonizing questions of how much of your own life is for you to live vs how much 👇🏼

Reggie you owe your family. This book is like the nicer, younger, YA sister of the movie, The Red State, who‘s also very distantly related to The Road. Good stuff. 3y
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Prepped | Bethany Mangle
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This is a different storyline through the perspective of a young girl. One can only imagine how people like this live life. Not easy I say. It is good to learn survival but not where it cuts into normalcy. This book is original and interesting.

Thank you @booksforwardpr for this ARC. This is my honest review. #booksforwardfriends

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DebbieGrillo
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Received an #arc of this book from Books Forward BFF Program. I can't wait to read and review!

dylanisreading This sounds interesting! Stacked. 3y
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