My new pen and the leather planner my mom got me as a back-to-school gift. “Five minutes.”īack in my room I start filling my brown saddlebag with my school things, like I’m on autopilot. “Do I have time to curl my hair before Rennie gets here?” she asks me. “Besides, this is winter white.” I swat at her butt with my hairbrush. “Nobody follows that rule anymore,” I tell her, hopping down from the counter. I’m wearing it with my white short shorts. “But I thought you weren’t supposed to wear white after Labor Day,” Nadia adds. I’ve done it that way since I was little. I brush my hair twenty-five strokes every morning. Twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, done.

“You look pretty,” she says, her voice scratchy with sleep.ĭo I? At least the outside is still the same. She sits on the edge of the tub, in her big soccer T-shirt with her shiny black hair mussed up in the back and watches me brush my hair.

I pick up my hairbrush and then reach over and unlock the door. “Lil! I need to take a shower!” she yells. I’m finishing up my left eye when my little sister, Nadia, bangs on the door so loudly that I jump. I do my right eye first, and it looks okay. I think she said to wing it just the tiniest bit. I’M SITTING ON MY BATHROOM COUNTER, TRYING TO remember what the makeup lady at Saks told me about how to do eyeliner on Asian eyes. With an unlikely alliance in place, there will be no more “I wish I’d said…” or “If I could go back and do things differently.” These girls will show Jar Island that revenge is a dish best enjoyed together. None of the girls can act on their revenge fantasies alone without being suspected. MARY is perpetually haunted by a traumatic event from years past, and the boy who’s responsible has yet to get what’s coming to him. LILLIA has always looked out for her little sister, so when she discovers that one of her guy friends has been secretly hooking up with her, she’s going to put a stop to it. KAT is sick and tired of being bullied by her former best friend. Postcard-perfect Jar Island is home to charming tourist shops, pristine beaches, amazing oceanfront homes-and three girls secretly plotting revenge.

Payback is paradise in this start to a trilogy from New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han, and New York Times bestselling author of The List, Siobhan Vivian.

Burn for burn by jenny han