by Holly Jackson
YA Mystery/Thriller, 2019 by Delacorte Press, 390 Pages
What I Didn’t Like:
- Repetitive. A lot of the clues and conclusions are repeated. It makes the prose clunky.
- Some of the twists or reveals are predictable, eye-rollingly so.
- If you’re not a fan of people sticking their noses into investigations and stepping outside the law, maybe skip this one. The main character is determined to engrain herself to the investigation, no matter what laws she has to break or what danger she has to put herself in.
What I Did Like:
- The slight change in formatting helps pave you through the story. It would also provide good summarization if you’re reading with time in between.
- The mystery has multiple layers and isn’t all predictable. It brings a lot of questions and then has you searching right along with the main character for some of the answers to click together.
- Satisfying conclusions. I don’t always feel like a book needs a final chapter, like this one has, to wrap things up. In this case, however, that final chapter really cements the conclusions and the theme of this one.
Who Should Read This One:
- Young adult readers who are looking for an investigation mystery.
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