Gluttony (novel)

"Gluttony" is a novel in "The Seven Deadly Sins" series by Robin Wasserman.

"Books In Order"

Lust, Envy, Pride, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Greed

The series follows a group of bankrupt teens living in the town of Grace, California.

Characters in the series

Harper Grace

Filthy rich Harper Grace is the it girl at Hayden High. Her great grandparents founded the town. Ever since she was kid, she'd had a crush on her best friend Adam, who was the new girl Beth's new eye candy. Harper is very self-centered and uses the town with her best friend Miranda Stevens as her personal playground, using the ultimate player metrosexual Kane Geary to ruin people's lives. In the first few books, she and Kane befriend the evil-minded Kaia Sellers to foil Adam and Beth's relationship. Since Harper wants Adam and Kane wants Beth, all the while shoving off Miranda. Kaia has sparked a relationship with her teacher Jack Powell and the poor mechanic Reed Sawyer. They take a phony picture and show the entire school, humiliating Beth. She then believes it was only Harper who did this to her and decides to dump Adam after she realizes he cheated on her with Kaia. Kane then talks her into drugging Harper's drink. Harper embarrasses herself in front of the entire school and runs to the aid of Kaia, taking the wheel. They go driving but Harper wrecks the car and Kaia dies. She then starts having nightmares about Kaia and how it was her fault that Kaia was dead. In misery, she tries to make things right but won't open up to anybody. In Sloth, she realizes she has to live her life the way she wants and starts to let people in and opens up. In Gluttony, Harper goes to Las Vegas and starts to begin her friendship with Adam again. Her plans take a turn for the worst when Beth admits she drugged Harper. Harper becomes angry and decides she better alone. At the end of the book, she finds Beth about to jump off the roof of the Camelot but she teaches Beth that there is something to live for, you just have to find it.

Adam Morgan

The school basketball hero and best friends of Kane Geary. He starts getting feelings for the sweet innocent Beth as soon as she moves into Grace. He realizes that he really has feelings about this girl until Harper wants to become more than friends. Everything seems to be going great until he realizes that Kane and Harper backstabbed him to break up with Beth. He avoids them and stays with Beth until he decides to cheat on her with Kaia. Beth then finds out and vows to get revenge over them. When Harper embarrasses herself at the school assembly, he tries to help her but then she almost gets herself killed. He misses his best friend and wants to start his friendship with Harper again, but she won't speak to him. He then starts failing on his classes and struggles on the team. He gets drunk at a party and has a fling with Miranda Stevens. They agree to keep it a secret from the rest of their friends. In Gluttony, him and Harper become friends again. But after Beth gets hurt, he comes to her aid and Harper thinks that they are dating again and runs away. He saves Beth from her suicide and starts to become friends with Harper once again, even through their rocky relationship.

Kane Geary

The School bad boy and Adam's best friend. He's Harper's partner in crime and moves onto new girls each day. He wants Beth, Adam's new girlfriend and realizes that Harper wants the same thing. The new girl from New York here's their plan and wants to join up. Another one of Kane's flaws is that he tries to fend off Miranda Stevens's, who has a huge crush on him. He does drugs and strikes a deal with a dealer to get Pot-Tarts, a new brand on the market in Gluttony. After Beth loses Adam, he convinces her that it was all Harper's fault and gives her pills to spike in Harper's drinks, even after they have a relationship. She slips the drugs in her drink and the whole thing goes as plan until Kaia dies. Beth starts talking about how she's going to turn the two of them in. He convinces her not to and is the only person who really doesn't care but he wants to figure out what really happened that night. In Gluttony, he convinces his friends to take a long weekend in Vegas. He books them all a room and looks forward to a night of partying. After taking the drugs from the dealer, he decides not to pay the fee but set up the dealer with Miranda who actually starts to like the dealer. Kane starts to get jealous and follows them around on their date. When he turns the dealer into the cops, Miranda thinks that he did it for revenge. He then admits that he had set the whole thing up so the dealer would give him the drugs free. In the pool at the hotel, him and Miranda kiss and he actually starts to have a real relationship with her.

Beth Manning

The new, innocent blond girl who becomes Adam's girl. Everyone thinks she's all perky-perky and would do nothing bad but she knows different when her teacher Mr. Powell starts to hit on her. Harper hates her because she's dating Adam. When she gets embarrassed my Harper, Kane, and Kaia, she gets back at them by spiking Harper's drink, after she breaks up with Adam since he cheated on her. Kaia dies and she believes it was her to blame. She starts to hate herself the rest of the time until she starts to have a relationship with pot-smoker Reed Sawyer and realizes she doesn't need to be popular, that she loves Reed and wants to be the groupie of his band. In Gluttony, she sets up Reed's band in a Battle of the Bands deal in Vegas. She travels with them there but it takes a turn when she runs into her old enemies and Reed flirts with a pretty girl named Starla. She gets confused when Reed tells her he loves her and she runs away, afraid that he'll figure out that she killed Kaia. She then gets drunk and ends up being under Adam's wing. When Harper sees them together, she lashes out but Beth tells her that she spiked Harper's drink. To get revenge, Harper tells Reed what happened and he breaks up with her. Having no life or no boyfriend, she goes to the roof of the hotel and tries to jump off but Harper, Adam, and Reed convince her to get off and realize there's more to live for than just being happy.

Kaia Sellers

The evil-minded new girl from New York. She starts off by joining Harper and Kane's group, destroying Beth's rep, dating her teacher, making Adam like her, and just all around ruin people's life. While in the car with Harper, she's killed.

Miranda Stevens

The redheaded second banana to Harper, Miranda is a smart, shy girl who has a huge crush on Kane Geary. She spends most of the books being a tag-along and dreaming about a relationship with Kane. When Harper turns mute after the accident, she wants her best friend back and tries to win her over. While tutoring Adam, she's about to tell Kane her true feelings when she sees him with Harper. She knows that Harper has a crush on Adam and she ends up having a fling with him. At the end of Sloth, she tells Harper that she's there if she wants to talk and goes on with her life. In Gluttony, she goes to Vegas for her birthday and thinks its terrible after a bad spa-day, she thinks it'll be the worst birthday ever until Kane sets her up with sweet Jackon. Her date is ruined when Kane turns him in as a drug-dealer and thinks that he's trying to make her birthday terrible. She really gets her wish when Kane says that he likes her and after a bad fight with Harper, she realizes she needs to keep what she has.

Reed Sawyer

The greasy mechanic. He goes out with Kaia. Is devastated when she dies. Is a pot-smoker. Has a rock band. Finally becomes happy when he realizes he loves Beth and talks her into smoking. He tells her he loves her but when she tells him she doesn't love him, he doesn't know what went wrong. He then figures out Beth hated him because of what she did to Kaia. He then breaks things off with Beth and even more sad when his band loses. He then starts a relationship with a girl named Starla. After Beth tries to kill herself, he realizes that no matter what, he loves her and that he has to move on from Kaia.