Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake

Popular 17-year-old Connie Lewis is friends with Mara Kreiger, an overweight reject at their New York high school--but when one of Connie's friends steals Mara's idea for a charity bake sale, Connie soon becomes a target when Mara plans to poison everyone at the event as revenge. If it's not obvious, Mara's a little off her rocker; but the reader could have guessed as much by reading the synopsis, as well as the tagline on the back cover: "Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts" (which got a laugh out of me).A bit of romance is thrown into the seemingly transparent plot, involving a Romeo and Juliet scenario between Connie and Taylor Hall, the drug addict her father forbids her to associate with. It's not very significant to the story, but it does connect with the twist at the end, when the killer is revealed--though the twist isn't very surprising. Still, "Pat-A-Cake, Pat-A-Cake" is a pretty good addition to the Nursery Crimes series, which includes two others: "Jack and Jill" and "There Was An Old Woman"--both worth checking out if you liked this one.

This book was really good! I thought it looked kinda dumb at first but then I loved it. I loved the relationship between Taylor and Connie, that was probably my favorite part of the book. The end really surprised me though.