Helpful Score: 3
The beginning of this book is very repetitve, I feel like I was halfway through the book but still reading chapter one over and over again. By the time the book picked up and got more interesting I was more than ready to give up and read something different. The characters are frustrating and keep making awful decisions, and instead of learning from their mistakes they just keep repeating the same things. This is the first book of Megan Abbotts I have read and will probably be the only one.
Helpful Score: 2
While this is a quick read, I didn't like it at all. I found it disturbing and creepy, and not in any of the good ways. I don't know any 13 year old girls wanting to sleep with men 3x their age... and this book is built on the premise that all of them do.
Helpful Score: 2
I really enjoyed this book. It was a very melancholy and quietly messed up story told from the POV of a 13-year-old girl named Lizzie who is completely inseparable from her BFF Evie. Until Evie goes missing after school one day, that is. The book follows the aftermath of that disappearance and the investigation through the eyes of Evie. It's a very compelling read and one that's going to haunt me for a while.
Helpful Score: 1
I picked this book because I thought it was a good story line. BIG mistake on my part. This was not a good book. The story line was definitely different and not my kind of read. The way the story was written did not flow and I do not like that type of writing. I WILL NOT read any more books by this author. I give it a half star, really would like to give it no stars. I wasted my money on this book!
