What Ellis did to the Young Professional in American Psycho, he does to the American teenager in The Shards - violently and carnally probes archetypes put on pedestals by American society, swapping New York traders and socialites for quarterbacks and prom queens. Sweeps you up with lives you wished you lived all the while making you grateful you don't. Not without true humanity and flashes of resemblance to figures and events in my own years of high school debauchery.