Amity
A year ago, Nan lost her three best friends to Saltcedar Canyon: their bodies were never found, despite the best efforts of the community to locate them. On the anniversary of the disappearance, during a lakeside vigil held in their honor, one of the girls is found injured but alive. No one is more shocked to see Luce than Nan, who doesn't share the town's excitement: after all, Nan was pretty sure she had killed all three of the girls. As Luce recounts her fractured memories of the past year, Nan and the reader are left wondering: how much does Luce really remember?
The plot was compelling, and the writing was solid; however, I did think it fizzled out at the end a bit. Thrillers often require some suspension of disbelief, which I have no issue with, but there were some parts to the story that didn't add up for me. Still, I was reading this every spare chance I had to see how everything unfolded. While there are things that are going to bother me as an adult reader, they probably won't bother the target audience, and I think it's an overall solid addition to the YA thriller genre. 3.5 earrings out of 5.
A year ago, Nan lost her three best friends to Saltcedar Canyon: their bodies were never found, despite the best efforts of the community to locate them. On the anniversary of the disappearance, during a lakeside vigil held in their honor, one of the girls is found injured but alive. No one is more shocked to see Luce than Nan, who doesn't share the town's excitement: after all, Nan was pretty sure she had killed all three of the girls. As Luce recounts her fractured memories of the past year, Nan and the reader are left wondering: how much does Luce really remember?
The plot was compelling, and the writing was solid; however, I did think it fizzled out at the end a bit. Thrillers often require some suspension of disbelief, which I have no issue with, but there were some parts to the story that didn't add up for me. Still, I was reading this every spare chance I had to see how everything unfolded. While there are things that are going to bother me as an adult reader, they probably won't bother the target audience, and I think it's an overall solid addition to the YA thriller genre. 3.5 earrings out of 5.