Reviewed by Marta Morrison for TeensReadToo.com
Evie is a lonely teen living in a small town in the Midwest. She lives with her mother, who tends to be flighty. They rent house after house, never really putting down roots in this small town.
Evie has a newspaper route on the weekends and loves delivering papers in a more affluent part of town. One of the main reasons she likes this area is that she can see the college boy who picks up dead animals from the woods. His name is Jonah Luks. He is not very friendly, but Evie has a very big crush on him.
One day while Jonah is looking for dead animals, he finds a dead body. It is of Elizabeth, a girl from Evie's high school. Evie and Elizabeth were friends when they were younger, but they had grown apart and Elizabeth was best friends with a very unstable girl named Hadley.
Hadley likes to live life on the edge. She has a sad home life and she spends a lot of time trying to escape it. Through a few innocent lies, Evie ends up being the new focus of Hadley's life. The two of them then decide to find out who killed Elizabeth, with disastrous results.
This was a good book, but I had a hard time reading about Hadley and her slow descent into chaos and madness. She was a bully and I kept wanting Evie to get away from her influence. The ending wasn't as satisfying as I wanted it to be, but I still recommend it, for a more mature audience.
Evie is a lonely teen living in a small town in the Midwest. She lives with her mother, who tends to be flighty. They rent house after house, never really putting down roots in this small town.
Evie has a newspaper route on the weekends and loves delivering papers in a more affluent part of town. One of the main reasons she likes this area is that she can see the college boy who picks up dead animals from the woods. His name is Jonah Luks. He is not very friendly, but Evie has a very big crush on him.
One day while Jonah is looking for dead animals, he finds a dead body. It is of Elizabeth, a girl from Evie's high school. Evie and Elizabeth were friends when they were younger, but they had grown apart and Elizabeth was best friends with a very unstable girl named Hadley.
Hadley likes to live life on the edge. She has a sad home life and she spends a lot of time trying to escape it. Through a few innocent lies, Evie ends up being the new focus of Hadley's life. The two of them then decide to find out who killed Elizabeth, with disastrous results.
This was a good book, but I had a hard time reading about Hadley and her slow descent into chaos and madness. She was a bully and I kept wanting Evie to get away from her influence. The ending wasn't as satisfying as I wanted it to be, but I still recommend it, for a more mature audience.
I feel like the author could have gone a lot farther with this book then they did. Don't get me wrong, it was a great book, I loved the plot & I also loved the main character. But, if you're like me, Hadley will annoy you & bug you throughout the whole novel and before the book is over, you're going to wish you could slap her, haha. The cover art on this book is beautiful, one of the things that attracted me to it. But, it is a good book, I just wish it would've gone into a little more detail!
