I've previously read Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem, and Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. I think her work is mostly interesting and usually brings a different element about the more traditional themes of a familiar storyline.
I digress, an amazon summary, "With all the intensity and whiplash turns of Sharp Objects and One of Us Is Lying, this engrossing psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships.
It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.
Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.
The only thing is: they didn’t do it.
On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous." AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
This is told between two narrators, some passage excerpts, and also past/present.
There's original three girls; Summer, Mia, and Brynn. Summer was murdered one summer, and Mia, Brynn, as well as her boyfriend or friend depending on who you ask, Owen, were the top suspects for her murder. The town turned against the surviving girls and accused them of murder, but nothing could be proven.
The story unwinds to reveal the very close relationship all three girls seemed to share, and also where Mia and Brynn wound up five years after Summer died.
There was also a book that they were all obsessed with, but Summer was the most obsessed with it. However, there's something that kind of triggers them into going back and really trying to figure out what happened to Summer.
That's enough summary.
The book was interesting and all that jazz, but there was a huge theme right at the beginning, so this isn't a spoiler, but the book they were obsessed with ended mid-sentence and drove them nuts. They were obsessed with why the book ended they way they did, and were trying to write a sequel.
But like, my people, I kind of feel like this book was written in angle that kind of really broke into the premise of ending a story mid sentence and also what a story really is... the rest of it was good, like mystery, murder, solving a cold case crime thing and seeing all the horror that negative press can harm someone's life... but like they didn't need the philosophical, but what do stories, MEAN kind of moments.
It was interesting, I wasn't expecting who the actual villain was, and the pacing of the book was pretty great.
...but that philosophy angle. But why.
Happy reading!
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