Book description
Riverdale meets The Queen's Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances.
Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy family's web of deception.
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1 author picked The Steps as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The Steps is Riverdale meets The Inheritance Games. What I loved most about this book is that it’s perfect for young teen lit—12yo+ readers who are bridging the current middle grade and YA gap. We have a 14 yo protagonist< Ruby< whose family, from her grandmother matriarch to her absentee dad to her ex-bestie/cousin, is absolutely dysfunctional and makes you feel bad for her. But that just means she rises further from the ashes. Even when the ashes are literal. Lots of twists and deliciously psycho behavior.
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