The Sixes by Kate White Book Review

Do you like a story that is drenched in mean girlness? Then this is the book for you! Phoebe Hall has been accused of plagiarism, so she moves to the small town of Lyle, Pennsylvania, to get her life back on track and to let the rumors cool down before she goes back to her writing. Her good friend, Glenda, offered her the job at the small college. While there, Glenda also asked Phoebe to quietly look into this supposed college group of girls, they called themselves The Sixes. The thing is, the more questions Phoebe asked the more silent people became, the more odd things kept happening. The more she dug, the more scared she became. She then meets this other teacher, Duncan, should she trust him? She also crosses paths with Hutch, who was the security guard at the time The Sixes began making their presence known.

Of course, what story would be complete without the main character’s past coming up to haunt her … in real life form, in the form of the reporter who wrote the plagiarism story. The ex-boyfriend who surfaces for a minute. And, somehow, Phoebe finds herself adopting a dog (there has to be some good amongst all the bad, right?). The question is – do The Sixes exist or is this some made up group of girls? And, another question is, what is really going on at the college? Is Phoebe really ever going to move on from what happened in the past? A past so secret she thought was hidden, or was it?

This book was originally published back in 2011 in hardcover with the paperback coming out in 2012. If you are a Kate White fan and haven’t read this one, I encourage you to do so. The way Ms. White is able to tell a story in the present and tie it in with Phoebe’s past and who the bad guy is … I was taken by this tale of mystery, a bit of romance, a few murders just to spice things up, and some bullying (as we would call it today) … the rats were a bit creepy. I will be looking into reading more of Ms. White’s older works; she has definitely made it to my go-to author list.