Caique

When you least expect it, the book is over—and he manages to “get you,” despite all you thought you knew about it.

One of my favourites, despite all the hype. Upon this reading, it was immensely vivid to experience Lizzie’s state of mind as she slowly admits to herself her haste in forming an opinion about everyone that surrounds her and how equivocated she might be regarding some portion of it.

My idea for this one was to read something very light and effortless; why not a teenage “who-done-it”? The answer: it’s poorly written and repetitive; to call the ending anticlimactic is to flatter it. I felt like I was reading a script from a cancelled TV show from The CW. There was a moment in which I realized I truly didn’t care about who was the villain.

It counts on the writer’s brilliant passing of time skills as one of their merits - to successfully tell the tale of a life and to make you invested as it was a real one - the “plot-twist” tool, unfortunately, made the story to lose some of its charm, and wasn’t needed (not even for character-growth purposes, fight with me on that). Too bad Monique’s background story, her own dilemmas and conclusions, feel a bit dull and over simplified in comparison to the overall tone of the bigger story.

Amazingly chilling.