Helpful Score: 1
This book is the next BLOCKBUSTER "made into a movie" book...and is actually worth keeping but it's so shocking, it's a MUST-SHARE-OR-TELL-OTHERS-ABOUT-IT type of book.
It starts out slow but only because unless you're British or from England, Wales etc...the language used is at first difficult to translate into American English, and by the fourth chapter (there are 17) you're beginning to wonder if the writers crazy or you are...lol...then you wonder if you've lost your touch in being able to predict the course of a story, however this is anything but a routine story, this is a rare gem of a novel!
By the 12th chapter you've finally figured it out...or so you think.
Then without warning the entire "life" of the book as you knew it, suddenly gets turned upside down and the proverbial "rug" gets yanked out from under you leaving you stunned beyond belief and knowing this is sure to become a movie...or so we hope.
Left me opened mouth and in a mild state of shock and wishing for more....much, much more.
A stunning and well accomplished story-teller, I found it hard to believe this is the debut(first)book for the awesome writer, Camilla Way. I can't wait for a sequel or the next book from this tremendously talented writer.
I'd tell you more but I'm almost afraid I'd ruin it for you....but let me say this; If you ONLY read ONE BOOK this year...you better make it THE DEAD OF SUMMER, or you'll forever wish you had. I'd give this book TEN STARS...if that were possible.
It starts out slow but only because unless you're British or from England, Wales etc...the language used is at first difficult to translate into American English, and by the fourth chapter (there are 17) you're beginning to wonder if the writers crazy or you are...lol...then you wonder if you've lost your touch in being able to predict the course of a story, however this is anything but a routine story, this is a rare gem of a novel!
By the 12th chapter you've finally figured it out...or so you think.
Then without warning the entire "life" of the book as you knew it, suddenly gets turned upside down and the proverbial "rug" gets yanked out from under you leaving you stunned beyond belief and knowing this is sure to become a movie...or so we hope.
Left me opened mouth and in a mild state of shock and wishing for more....much, much more.
A stunning and well accomplished story-teller, I found it hard to believe this is the debut(first)book for the awesome writer, Camilla Way. I can't wait for a sequel or the next book from this tremendously talented writer.
I'd tell you more but I'm almost afraid I'd ruin it for you....but let me say this; If you ONLY read ONE BOOK this year...you better make it THE DEAD OF SUMMER, or you'll forever wish you had. I'd give this book TEN STARS...if that were possible.
Helpful Score: 1
This was a short and still surprising story. I really enjoyed it. The characters were interesting and the suspense was well done. It was entertaining with a solid ending. The writing was clean and vivid. I would certainly read another book by her!
This is one of those whodunit books that keeps you guessing right up to the last page. I found the language hard to get into at first since it is written in an English (England) vernacular. It is a short book but different and worth reading. Kyle, Anita and Denis are three very different and very strang kids that are linked together by their isolation of others. They spend the entire summer together and grow to an inseperable threesome that is distroyed in the end by a "sick" and selfish love.
Three teenaged misfits from oddly dysfunctional families spend their summer days together in a series of misadventures that culminate in a horrific act that defies understanding. This is a very unsettling look into the mind of evil disguised as madness. The ending was an unexpected twist.
Very good if you like "dark" plots.
