Need by Joelle Charbonneau

High school teenagers begin getting invitations to join a social network site.  They have to, in turn, invite five other friends to join.  When they do, the site - NEED - will fulfill a request, seemingly free of charge ("What do you NEED?").  Of course, nothing is ever really free, and soon NEED members are being asked to perform small tasks in exchange for something they request.  But when the tasks get more dangerous and begin to have real consequences, the teens must begin to question their ethics and sense of right and wrong.  Are those concert tickets really worth it?  How far would you be willing to go?

I liked the premise of this book.  In today's social media age, it's not so far-fetched to imagine a scenario like this in real life.  What ultimately turned me off from this book was the explanation at the end of who/what was behind NEED.  I won't spoil it here, but I didn't buy it.  If this book was more dystopian/science fiction, then maybe.  But this is firmly realistic mystery fiction and I didn't believe the "big reveal."  Too bad, because this one had potential.