The story: NEED looks innocent enough at first: get five of your friends to sign up, and you'll get something you need, like an iPad. Or a new dress for the dance. Sweet! Then, once you've completed the task and gotten your reward, you can sign up for a new task. It'll be a little harder...or maybe a lot harder. Maybe it'll ask you to do something illegal. Maybe it'll even be deadly. But as the kids at Nottowa High School are sucked into completing assignments for this mysterious website, only Kaylee asks for something she truly needs--and maybe that's why she's the only one who can see it for what it's turning out to be. But NEED has ways of keeping tabs on you--and of shutting you down if you talk. What Kaylee really needs right now? A way out.
June Cleaver's ratings: Language PG-13; Violence PG-13; Sexual content PG; Nudity G; Substance abuse PG-13; magic & the occult G; GLBT content G; adult themes (murder, parental abandonment, childhood cancer, peer pressure) PG-13; overall rating PG-13.
Liz's comments: This is a thriller in the real sense of the word: you can't put it down as you wait to see how horribly the next person will act, and how it will all end. It is, however, incredibly Lord of the Flies-ish, and very down on humans in general (and teens in particular). The adults are all clueless; the kids are greedy and self-absorbed, and only Kaylee has pure motives. It's difficult to consider the teens I know and think any of them would go this far--so on this one, the Suspension-of-Disbelief-o-Meter gets strained beyond the breaking point. If you have a more generous breaking point, go ahead and give this one a try. And if you like it, it's wide open for a sequel.
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