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Title: New Year's Evil
Author: Sidney Williams, Michael August
Narrator: Maxwell Glick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-30-12
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Genres: Fiction, Horror
Publisher's Summary:
Bran Hatten is big, mean and unpredictable. He'll pound any guy that crosses his path, and he's a complete jerk to girls who spurn his affections. Tess Ryan and her friends are looking for options, even those the mysterious new girl at Pembrook High might offer. Charisse Bienville lives in the old dark house at the edge of town, and she's hinted that she commands powerful magical forces. Tess and her friends join Charisse in a ritual to end Bran's reign of terror, but they don't count on what might come afterward.
Charisse seems to have dark goals far beyond making Bran act silly and defusing his bullying. Stealing Tess's best friend is step one. Stalling Tess's budding relationship with rebellious Casey is a side effect, and there's a horrible gift under the Ryan Christmas tree. What Charisse has planned at her New Year's Eve party everyone plans to attend could be the most terrifying act of all.
As the countdown to New Year's Eve begins, Tess finds herself in a race against time to unlock ancient mysteries to explain who or what Charisse really is. If she can't do it before midnight December 31, the results could be cataclysmic.
Members Reviews:
"Before he could pull away, Bran's hands closed around his head, pulling upward, yanking...Nathan's scream snapped off..."
It starts off with six: the bullied; Tess, Casey, S. W., Nathan; the bully; Bran; and the advocate and the lonely; the mysterious Charisse. Tess, Casey, S. W., and Nathan notice that the perpetual bully, who seems to fear nobody, Bran just automatically stays out of the way of Charisse. So they approach her for some relief from Bran's bulling. Lonely, looking for friends, and for someplace to fit in, Charisse agrees, and a spell is cast, and the events of the novel, including Bran's doom, start to snowball, first with Bran's eccentric behavior, then with his self-destructive behavior, and the ostracization of S. W. from of her friends.
But Charisse also has an ulterior motive for her actions, Bran is not losing his mind, Charisse is taking over the whole young, about to graduate teen society, and as things continue the readers, and the remainder of the bullied teens realize that there is more and more to Charisse that anybody initially realized, especially as the Tess and Casey start to come to the realization that Charisse not only seems to have no parents, she may be a lot older than she looks.
And then the murders start.
As more teenagers are roped into Charrise's circle, and as Tess and Casey find out Charrise has BIG plans for her New Year's Day party, things will start to get dicey, especially since Charisse will succeed in becoming one of the school's in-crowd.
This is one of the many young adult novels that came out in the wake of R. L. Stine's success in the young adult horror field. What sets "New Year's Evil" by Michael August (a. k. a.: Sidney Williams) off from so many of these novels is that Williams does a bang-up job of characterization.
This is a multi-perspective novel which tells its story, mostly, from three of its characters, Bran, Charisse, and, mostly, Tess, who is this novel's main narrative voice.
