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!
Evie is a 13yr old girl who disappears. Lizzie is her best friend who lives next door. This is the Lizzie story of what happens and how they get Evie back home.
It was suspenseful enough to keep my attention, but really kind of a disturbing story. I was a teenage girl once, and I can't say I ever wanted to sleep with any men three times my age. According to this book, that is just about ever little girl's fantasy. I found that a little creepy. I liked the mystery part of the book, not so much the story line.
I'm definitely in a reading slump. I can't seem to finish the last few books that I've picked up. I've tried and failed to finish any of the author's previous books, but the storyline on this one sounded very interesting. The major problem is that I'm not a fan of her writing style. I also had a problem with the disturbing storyline. Fans will likely enjoy this one, but I doubt that I'll pick up another book by this author.
Lizzie and Evie have been friends their entire lives. They share everything, from clothes to sports to thoughts and secrets. They have carved out places in sports, equaling the boys on that playing field.
Now, at 13, everything is changing. They watch Evies 16 year old sister as she blossoms into a beautiful and feminine being, and her effect on the males in the neighborhood. The boys, other kids, adults, families, or perhaps it is their perception, their awareness that is changing.
Lizzie realizes that Evie is changing, as she herself is, too. Their discussions and secrets have taken on new tones, new topics. When Evie disappears suddenly, Lizzie still feels the connection and a responsibility to find her friend. Her bond with Evies family gives her strength, but is also a source of mixed comfort and pain.
Lizzie has many revelations and grows up in unexpected ways in Evies absence. She realizes things about Evie, herself, and the ways of the world. These things drive her to find Evie, but they also put an end to many things that she felt, believed, and thought she knew.
Megan Abbott has written a book that explores the frightening dark side of adolescence, regarding sexuality and what is the end of innocence. The truth is that when we lose our innocence, we lose our childhood.
Now, at 13, everything is changing. They watch Evies 16 year old sister as she blossoms into a beautiful and feminine being, and her effect on the males in the neighborhood. The boys, other kids, adults, families, or perhaps it is their perception, their awareness that is changing.
Lizzie realizes that Evie is changing, as she herself is, too. Their discussions and secrets have taken on new tones, new topics. When Evie disappears suddenly, Lizzie still feels the connection and a responsibility to find her friend. Her bond with Evies family gives her strength, but is also a source of mixed comfort and pain.
Lizzie has many revelations and grows up in unexpected ways in Evies absence. She realizes things about Evie, herself, and the ways of the world. These things drive her to find Evie, but they also put an end to many things that she felt, believed, and thought she knew.
Megan Abbott has written a book that explores the frightening dark side of adolescence, regarding sexuality and what is the end of innocence. The truth is that when we lose our innocence, we lose our childhood.
