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    I Know What You Did Last Summer
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    I Know What You Did Last Summer

    Written by Lois Duncan

    Narrated by Dennis Holland

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    It was only an accident – but it would change their lives forever. Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact to conceal a shocking secret. But some secrets don't stay buried, and someone has learned the truth.

    Someone bent on revenge. This summer, the horror is only beginning...

    A Hachette Audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 5, 2010
    ISBN9781607889090
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    I Know What You Did Last Summer
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    Lois Duncan

    Lois Duncan (1934–2016) was an author of more than fifty books for young adults. Her stories of mystery and suspense have won dozens of awards and many have been named Best Books for Young Adults by the American Library Association. Among the many honors and accolades she has received for her work, in 2015, Lois Duncan was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America.  Duncan was born Lois Duncan Steinmetz in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; she grew up in Sarasota, Florida. By age ten she was submitting her work to magazines, and she had her first story published nationally when she was just thirteen. In 1994, Duncan released a nonfiction title, Who Killed My Daughter?, after her youngest child was killed in a crime that was never solved.

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    • 4/5
      The book is totally different and so much better than that dreadful movie.
    • 4/5
      On the same day she gets admitted to her dream college of Smith, Julie James receives a mysterious envelop in the mail. Opening it, she finds a simple note reading, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER. In a panic, she gathers the other three teens who know what happened last summer. Ray, Barry, Helen, and Julie have a secret, it seems, and now it turns out someone else may know their secret as well.At first, the foursome try to play the note off as a prank. But when Barry is shot outside his dorm room, it becomes clear that something much more sinister is at play. What is the dark secret that they all share? Who else knows their secret? And is this person out for revenge?Perhaps this book was frightening in 1973, when it was originally written, but nowadays, it probably wouldn't scare kids who are used to the gore and creepiness of books like Cirque du Freak and The Hunger Games. Still, it did offer a little mystery and a series of clues that kids will enjoy following. Julie and Ray, the two teens who want to reveal their secret, are decent kids who are clearly caught up in a situation that is over their heads. Barry is the brash football king who makes them all swear to a pact to keep the secret, but it is Helen, the seemingly shallow beauty queen, who is the most intriguing character. Helen hasn't had life easy, and that makes her more driven and ruthless than she might have been otherwise. It would have been interesting to get the story more from Helen's point of view, rather than stereotypically virtuous cheerleader Julie.I have a friend who loved Lois Duncan when she was a teenager, and she recently bought and reread all the books for nostalgia's sake. Apparently, they have been "updated" to include modern technology like the Internet and cell phones, and the effect was ghastly. Because the thrill comes from the characters' isolation, a lot of the updates were why so and so left their phone at home. Lame. Sorry for the bird walk, but I think today's teens can still appreciate this story as a hallmark of the time it was created in.In any case, this book is a nice distraction during the...summer... Don't worry, if you read it then, I won't tell. There are a couple scenes of tense violence, but nothing too gory, unlike the cheesy movie I saw in high school. I would like to read more Duncan books, provided I can get my hands on the originals.For grades 8 and up.
    • 4/5
      I am 38, and I read a LOT of Lois Duncan growing up. When the movie version of this came out, I had no idea it was based on this book. This is a suspense novel, not a horror one. There isn't much violence, and if you know where the story is going, it's pretty easy to spot the clues along the way. The teens run over a 10-year-old boy, not a hook man, and it's his Vietnam-veteran stepbrother who seeks revenge for his death. This is not my favorite Duncan book. I think she does best with her supernaturally-based novels. The first few chapters are hard to get through because she hits you over the head with clunky exposition, but once that's over, the pacing is great, until it comes to an abrupt, crashing halt at the end.
    • 4/5
      It is about 4 teenagers who made a pact not to talk about an incident that happened last summer and someone finds out.
    • 5/5
      This book was outstanding! The book contains a ton of suspense and action. An absolute "must read"!
    • 3/5
      Easy to read book, only a little scary at the end.
    • 4/5
      Julie has just been accepted to an Ivy League school. She is pretty and young with a loving mother and her whole life ahead of her but she cannot get past what happened when a car she was riding in with her friends hit a young boy and killed him. The teens left the scene but called in the accident at a pay phone down the road. However, someone knows what happened and is determined to make them pay.
    • 4/5
      A novel that appeals to teenagers with an important message---don't drink and drive. The plot revolves around four teenagers, Julie, Ray, Helen and Barry, who share a horrifying secret that haunts them. Someone is threatening to reveal their secret. But who? Eventually everyone must own up to their sins and mistakes. The novel is told from the third person omniscient point of view. There is a little something for everyone---murder, revenge, mystery, suspense and romance.
    • 4/5
      This book was a re-read for me. I remember reading this book while I was in my teen years and truly loving it. I have to say, it is still a thrill and I enjoyed the book from beginning to end. I think there are a number of important lessons in the book, as well as it filled with suspense, romance and sadness and more.
    • 4/5
      Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.
    • 3/5
      I read this way back in 1988, but I remember that I loved the book. From what I recall, the book was very different from the movie... but it's been a LONG time since I read the book.
    • 5/5
      This thriller is really good because young adults can really relate to the characters. They are all high school students preparing for graduation and celebrating with reckless abandon. The story show serious consequences for drinking and driving and the possibilities of what could really happen should you decide to get behind the wheel. I think its an exciting book and I think young adult readers would really love it.
    • 5/5
      I love this book! If you the kind of person who loves horror and mystery, I Know What You Did Last Summer is the book to read...
    • 5/5
      This was a page-turning thriller! I came into this book 'cold-turkey', I hadn't read it before, nor have I seen the movie so I didn't really know anything about it apart from a general idea of the plot. It was incredibly suspenseful and chilling. The twist-ending was fabulous! For a book written in 1973, it is has surprisingly modern feel to it. Apart from the mention of Vietnam and a college demonstration it felt very current. I have to say I thought that a YA thriller might be a bit lame but this was just what I would expect from an adult book, minus the graphic violence and sex. Duncan has a long list of books to her name and I'm definitely going to try another one soon.
    • 5/5
      As is normally the case, the book was far better than the movie. Four teenagers are keeping a horrifying secret. It has haunted them ever since one summer night when they made the pact. But, someone knows what happended. And he wants revenge. Excellent mystery!
    • 2/5
      Four teenage friends are driving home from a party and accidentally kill a young boy on his bike. Terrified, they flee the scene, call an ambulance and hope for the best. After they learn the boy has died, the make a pact to never tell the story. The friends fracture and everything seems to have been forgotten. Then one day, a year later, they four friends begin receiving harassing letters. Someone knows their secret and has come to have his revenge.This book felt weird - out of time and awkward. The book had been updated to include cell phones, but it just confuses things. Everyone keeps talking on landlines and forgetting their cell phones in places. Seems like a bad idea. The characters are pretty flat too. Ah well.
    • 2/5
      Oh I see Goodreads deleted my entire review...short version; revenge thriller is a classic recipe but almost everyone in this story is a jerk and I didn't care about the characters.
    • 3/5
      Nice bit of fluff.
    • 3/5
      This is a pretty entertaining whodunit aimed at teens. I think I watched the movie, but I couldn't remember exactly who turned out being the one so I don't know if the book is different. It isn't difficult to figure out who is doing it in the book.
    • 5/5
      Technically, the movie introduced me to Lois Duncan but reading this book made me a devoted fan of hers! I absolutely loved the book more than the movie, which to be honest, confused me a bit with the whole Ben Willis/David Egan thing.

      I liked the characters more in the book and felt that it took more chances like with taking away Barry's livelihood rather than just gutting him like a fish and Helen jumping out of a window just to get away from the killer.

      I thought it was better that the four main characters actually killed a child and how the consequences had a ripple effect. Sure, there were some cliches like how Helen's older sister, Elsa, was jealous of her beauty which caused the friction in their relationship. This book was written in 1974 so I cut it some slack.

      All in all, it was defintely a good read!
    • 1/5
      This book started out on the wrong foot with me as the mom is chiding her daughter for studying too hard...It pretty much went downhill from there. It would've made a fine short story as the actual content could've been squeezed down into 30 to 50 pages. I am used to reading tomes but this book, short though it was, was too long.

      Also, it was completely obvious who the stalker/killer was from the first time he made an appearance. Why did the girl trust him enough to be driven around by him after she JUST met him?!

      This one goes back to the give-away shelf at the library where I found it.
    • 3/5
      I Know What You Did Last Summer is the story of 4 high school students trying to forget a horrible mistake they made the previous summer. While they are far from succeeding, one year later they are forced to relieve the experience when mysterious notes and pictures begin appearing, suggesting that someone else may be privy to their awful secret.This book was short, but it kept me entertained the entire time. However, I felt as though the author divulged the teenagers' secret to the readers very early on in the story. While the rest of the novel was captivating, it would have been more suspenseful had the audience been kept in the dark.I also found the ending a little predictable. Lois Duncan gave a lot of clues leading up to the discover of the man who was terrorizing these four young people. It bothered me that none of the characters could figure that out.The fate of several of the characters was also rather ambiguous. While this is not always terrible to have in a story, I would have liked more details at the end, especially regarding the character of Helen.All in all, I enjoyed reading this book. I especially loved the ending. It was so romantic and sweet, and gave the novel a happy tone for the end.This is a really good mystery book. Having not read a great deal of the mystery genre, I cannot compare it to any other adult books. However, it did remind of R. L. Stine's "Point Horror" series for teens.