The Spite Game

The Spite Game
by Anna Snoekstra

After being bullied in high school, Ava carries a grudge against those who wronged her.  She can't seem to move on until she has had her revenge.  This novel rotates between present day and back to her senior year in high school.  

She starts with Saanvi, who went to school for architecture, and basically does something that ends up blackballing Saanvi for any future architecture jobs.  Then she goes after Mel, who was the ringleader.  She doesn't seem successful so she moves on to Cass.  Cass is getting married and while Ava is stalking her, she catches Cass cheating on her fiance.  

The end comes back to Mel, and through the book it is mentioned that Mel is missing in present day and Ava seems to be at a police station ready to confess, so you know something happened to Mel, you just don't find out until the end of the book.  

It was an interesting story.  It kinda felt like this Simpson meme while reading:

Ava could have a good life, she has people that care about her, things could actually turn out just fine.  But no, instead she is busy stalking old friends both via social media and in real life.  They were not worth her obsessing over them, particularly Mel.  Mel was by far the worst to Ava, Mel really messed with Ava's head.  Mel would pretend to be nice and her friend, then be mean, and go back and forth.

I looked on Goodreads and it looks like this author has several other books, so yay, I will eventually work my way towards those too.  You can never have too many books to read!