This is Lily Sparks’ debut novel, and man oh man was it good. The main character, Signal, is imprisoned after being found guilty of her best friend’s murder. After being in jail for about a year, Signal is sent to a summer camp of sorts for other teen murders where they will learn how to become assassins. This rag-tag group of teens call themselves the Teen Killers Club. The catch for Signal however, is that she isn’t actually a killer. She was framed for a murder she didn’t commit.

This book was a page-turner and at the end of each chapter, something would happen that would keep me wanting to read more. There is mystery, suspense, and a sprinkling of romance in this book. This book also has a lot of big messages about self-acceptance and trust. I loved this book, and highly recommend it to anyone who likes mystery or thrillers. Also, I really hope there is a sequel to this book, as there were a number of things left unfinished. I give this book a 4 out of 5 stars.

Way to go Ms. Sparks on an awesome debut!

I absolute;y loved this book! cIt was fast-paced and constantly making me want to read the next page to see what happens next.. Literally read it in two sittings, it reminds me of Riley Sager's work. It has a little bit of everything, murder, intrigue, instant love, teen angst, shadow government branches, terrorists, and even cults!

I received an ARC through NetGalley from Crooked Lane Books. In a near future, people can be tested for their potential to be killers and sociopaths. At the top of the pack are Class A’s, the most brutal, heartless killers. Signal Deere tested Class A after being found guilty of killing her best friend. Now she is part of a secret installation that trains and deploys teen killers. Signal says she is not guilty of her accused murder. She doesn’t quite fit in at camp, but she is making friends with the other interesting inmates turned assassins. Can she hang? Can she find the real killer, so she can get justice?

Overall, I expected more from this, but found found Signal like-able and I wanted to see the mystery of her best friends murder unveiled. The love triangle is not my thing and I would have liked more character development with Nobody, Dennis and Jada - the secondary characters. Maybe in a sequel? Teens will find this easily readable and attention grabbing.

This book far exceeded my expectations. I really enjoyed the entire concept. The character development was great and enough action to keep the reader engaged. Would love to read a sequel!

Signal Deere is seventeen years old but her life is far from normal. She’s convicted of killing her best friend Rose. On top of that, she’s been deemed a “Class A” which in this world is the most dangerous and manipulative type of person. While in prison, she is offered a way out and signs up for a secret program. She is taken where she soon finds out she will be trained to be a proficient killer. But, Signal is innocent and thus has to fake being guilty so as not to appear weak around a bunch of teen killers.

Lily Sparks delivers a unique young adult novel that I have a feeling I’ll be re-reading. It has a strong American Horror Story: 80s vibe, but it is completely different at the same time. Additionally, this had many of the typical YA tropes but I felt as though they were done in unique ways as well which is important to me. I almost read the entire thing in one sitting and I definitely felt like I wanted to know more after it ended and I’m expecting a sequel. I’m looking at your Lily Sparks.

4.5 Stars

Bloody hell, this book was awesome!!

This girl named Signal, yes that’s her name, gets put in prison for murdering her best friend ...but she doesn’t remember. She’s like.. uh what..no

They have these killers called Class A, which means your the worst of the worst. You can also take this test to see if you classify. If you do, you go to prison for your thoughts. The hell? I know right?!

Anyhoo, Class A’s can’t appeal so Signal is offered a secret thing she can join or rot in jail. She decides to take the deal. Turns out her and one of her mates from her prison (Nobody, yes, she goes by Nobody) end up at a camp together. What!!?? Yay??!!


NO, this ain’t that camp. WELCOME TO CAMP NARAMAUKE!! We’re going to train you to be assassins. Say what?! Poor ole Signal gets thrown in with some killer teens and she’s an innocent.

I actually fell in love with the group after they all got sorted out. Signal, Nobody, Jada, Javier, Erik, Dennis, Troy and Kurt. Dave and Kate run the place and are twats.

The kids are tagged so they can’t just run off. They start training on some things, but then some whackado shows up in a dog mask trying to kill them. Needless to say, chaos ensues!

Also, during the book one of the kids tries to help Signal find out who really killed her best friend. And let’s just say there are a few different end games, some crazy twists and what the..moments.

I throughly enjoyed this book and the end was so good with both a sad and happy ending! I will be adding this book to my clan 😉

Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾

*I would like to thank Netgalley and Crooked Lane Publishing for a digital copy of this book.

This was such a fun read with really likeable characters. Some parts were a little far fetched, but it is a novel about a teen killer club, so I’m not too mad about it.

At seventeen Signal Deere is set to be spending her life in prison after brutally murdering her best friend.

Her only way out is to sign on to a secret program that trains young murderers to becoming assassins.

Signal isn’t like the others, she is kind and scared of most everything. It takes one of the other teens to discover the truth she isn’t admiring to - Signal has never murdered anyone.


This book is brilliant. I read it in one sitting and can’t wait for the next (hopefully) instalment. I need to know what happens next!

So, I started reading this book around 11pm. It is now 4:13am and I just finished. I. Could. Not. Put. This. Book. Down. I was so taken with Signal and Nobody from the very start. The characters make this book so fun and engaging. The love interests/triangle kept me wondering who she would inevitably choose. I normally don’t enjoy a love triangle but thankfully this one was well written and believable. The writing is fantastic and I’ll definitely be looking forward to future works from this author. And the plot, although a bit overdone(teen assassins), was so fun. The story was exciting and I enjoyed the mystery so much. I honestly did not see the reveal coming. I can normally figure out the twists and turns but, this one blindsided me.

There were a couple of things that bothered me; the lack of actual combat/fight training... You’re training them to be assassins but you don’t teach them to fight? Not with weapons or physically? The whole “gay relationship” that was a non-relationship and then was completely looked over when it was convenient didn’t really sit right with me.

At the end of the day, I really enjoyed this book and it’s set up so perfectly for the sequel that I can not wait to read. I give Teen Killers Club 4.5 stars.

All of my thanks to Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for allowing me to read the arc in exchange for an honest review.

**I received this book as an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review++

I was pretty surprised with how much I enjoyed this book. I finished it in a night, not wanting to put it down.

Teen Killers Club centers around 17 year old Signal Deere, a goth girl from the trailer park. When her best friend is murdered she ends up being found guilty of the crime and ends up in prison. When she is offered the chance to join a program to possibly get out of jail early she signs up and heads off to a summer sleep-away style camp with a bunch of other teenage killers. The one difference between Signal and the rest of the campers is that she is innocent.
This book is so wild, it gave me a bit of Suicide Squad vibes in the beginning when I first read about the program of young killers being put together.. but that quickly passed, Setting a bunch of murderous kids in an innocent setting like a summer camp was such an interesting juxtaposition, and was one of those things that really grabbed my attention. The main character Signal was so out of her element, but took everything so surprisingly well trying to maintain her focus on how to find her best friends real killer. I loved all the little moments where you REALLY notice how different she is from the rest of the teen killers. I loved getting to know the characters and would love to read a sequel. I feel like there are so many questions left to be answered.

Given that it's about teen murderers, I'm a little bit worried about how much I enjoyed this book! I'm not sure I have the words to say how much I adored this mashup of adventure and mystery!

Vaguely reminiscent of Suicide Squad (but without the superpowers, obviously) Teen Killers Club is smart, face paced story. The characters are fantastic - I fell head over heels for the whole club. The book doesn't shy away from gore, and the twists kept me guessing right up until that explosive end... There had better be a sequel!

I received a copy from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

This review has been posted to Goodreads and will be submitted to Amazon after release.

This novel was such a fun read, I had a great time the whole time I was reading it. It was unlike any teen mystery novel I’ve read, so that was really refreshing to experience. There were a lot of things I did not expect, and I ended up becoming so much more engaged in each character’s storyline than I imagined I would. I appreciated that the characters were shown to be more than just Class A killers, and given a backstory to why they came to killing those people. It helped me to connect with them on a more emotional level, and to understand the love stories presented inside of the novel.

Signal was a beautifully developed character, I loved seeing her grow as a person throughout the novel.

I was hesitant at first about the love triangle between her, Javier, and Erik, but I ended up enjoying the conflict present between them, and seeing how she navigated their relationships.

I also enjoyed getting to solve the mystery throughout the plot of the story. It always left me on the edge of my seat when we would get to go back to learning more about Rose's case, and then go back to the conflicts in the present time. I would be itching to continue putting pieces together when we got to go back to solving the murder.

Overall, I would rate this novel a ⅘ stars. I knew that I would enjoy this novel as it was right up my alley for books that I would read, and I was very excited to get approved for it on NetGalley! The writing style was not the greatest I have read, so that is mostly why I gave it 4 stars, along with some of the plot components.

This was SO GOOD!! There better be a sequel or I am going to riot.

Signal Deere wakes up in a shed with her best friend's decapitated head in her lap and no memory of what happened. With an 80 year sentence and a class A criminal classification, things are looking pretty bleak for Signal. Until she's offered a place in a top secret program for under-18 class A's, otherwise known as the Teen Killers Club. There, she makes friends with an unlikely band of misfit murderers who are being prepped for life as assassins and with the help of Erik, she tries to solve the murder she was convicted for.

This is a twisty, mystery of a story with so much to solve and think about; you never know who to trust, the idea of good and evil is blurred and ofcourse there's a big dollop of teen angst thrown in. The ONLY thing I didn't particularly like about this book was the love triangle, I'm just not into them, but other than that I thought it was fantastic. I can't believe this is a debut novel, it's really well written and is totally gripping. And after that ending, I mean what I said about the sequel...there will be RIOTS!

Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for sending me a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book was hard to wrap my head around a little bit. Teen killers? The premise was interesting and how the story unfolded hit its mark.

This book had me at ‘teenage assassins’ and I have to say, Teen Killers Club (TKC) didn’t disappoint! Part summer camp for sociopaths and part who’s trying to murder the murders, all with a healthy sprinkling of angsty teen drama! What more could I ask for? TKC is a fast-paced story about a goth girl named Signal Deere who has the Class A designation of being a murderer, is accused of the murder of her best friend but is really innocent. Signal is presented with a chance out of prison and is offered a position where she’ll be trained to be an assassin for the government in a sketchy Murder 101 course with the slogan:

“What did we come to camp to learn, everybody?” ‘How to not get caught!”

This is a really unique take in a futuristic setting that uses science to deem a person guilty of a crime before they can commit it. Although, most of our teenage assassins have actually murdered someone, it is an interesting take on how science and often society, can judge and wrongfully accuse.

The characters are one of the best parts of the book! Each one is emotive and so well-developed, I enjoyed getting to know them all and I’m interested in hearing more about them. I’m hopeful that with the way TKC ended that we can look forward to a second book.

Thank you to Lily Sparks, Crooked Lane Books, and NetGalley for providing me with a DRC to read and review.

This book reminded me a little of the hunger games, the concept isn’t entirely original but it still brings something new and dangerously exciting.
Very well written and a good read.
3 stars.

I’ll be honest and say that despite how much I dug the description and cover of this book (seriously great cover art), I still didn’t have particularly high expectations for this book. Not only did I severely underestimate how much I was going to love this book but I also feel like it was specifically written for me as a murder mystery fanatic (seriously Lily Sparks can we chat about how spot on this was?) A teen framed for the murder of her best friend? Check. An elite camp of teen killers? Check. Murder, Mayhem, and Macabre humor? Check, check, and check.

Lily Sparks has taken the best tropes of YA fiction and mystery and intermixed them together to create a funny, exciting, and engaging read that had me finishing this book in a 12 hour time span (it was that good). Think “Deadly Class” meets “A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder” in the best ways possible. I am sold on this author and I can’t wait to see what Lily Sparks brings next!

Thank you to Netgalley, Crooked Lane Books, and Lily Sparks for the advanced read of “Teen Killers Club” in exchange for an honest review.

Many thanks to Netgalley and publishers for this review copy.

A campy, page turner, Teen Killers Club, will suck you in and keep you guessing. Signal Deere has been dropped off at a camp designed to train teens convicted of murder, to become assassins. Signal only agreed because it meant getting out of prison. What she didn’t expect, was the chance to meet the people who would become her very best friends and the ability to solve her own case of being wrongfully accused (and convicted). But when their time at camp ends abruptly and the campers are forced out on to their missions prematurely, things end in a way most readers couldn’t imagine.

Without giving too much away, I highly recommend this book for true crime, horror, and dystopian fans alike. I will wait patiently for the next installment!!!!!!

This was a super fun mystery/thriller that had me oh the edge of my seat until the very end. Each character was well fleshed out and the plot was original. I had a great time reading this!

Thank you to net galley, the publisher and the amazing lily sparks for this book! I loved everything about this book, the plot, the characters and the cover! Teen killers club starts with Signal who has just been accused of killing her best friend rose, she is now known as a class A. Class A people are the worst of the worst and with no choice, she take a special plea to join teen killers club but not everything is as it seems! Seriously tho read this book I finished it in two days and pray for a sequel!