Also I remembered this book starting with an actual murder so the stakes felt a lot higher from the get go. These days I can’t function if I’m not in a city.

Growing up in a city I think I romanticised ‘small town America’ thanks to Point Horror books so the fact that this book was, based on my memory, in a small seaside town was another positive. I love crowns, I have quite a few, whenever I have a bad day I pop one on and have a cup of tea. Proms were a foreign concept to me but they sounded so glamourous, grown up and such a huge part of high school, like in a lot of American YA books I read and ‘teenage’ films I watched everything centred around Prom, popularity and, of course, electing Prom Queen and King. I did have a ‘Leavers Do’ at the end of 6 th Form, we invited our parents and had a sit down meal before having a party then heading to the school’s members only pub (In my school once you got into 6 th Form you automatically became a member to a private pub opposite the school which obviously led to so much underage drinking….my school was weird) But that was the only type of celebration we had except for birthday parties.

I never even had a school disco so the whole concept of Prom was just delightful to me. Tagline: She’d kill for a date Initial ThoughtsĪh Prom Night, I remember absolutely LOVING this book as a child for so, so many reasons-first of all Prom. Margaret is determined to find out the truth-even if it kills her… Is someone trying to kill off the competition? Popular girls like Stephanie and Kiki always get dates… After all you need a date to go to a Prom…Īll they can do is envy the lucky girls who will be there. But Margaret and her friends wont be going. Summary: It’s the biggest event of the year at Toomey High-Prom Night.

Prom Date by Diane Hoh