Rachel died at two
a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time.
Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text.
Jaycee and
Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible
night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee
chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a
growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to
do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first
clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret.
Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to
trust before she can expose the truth.
In the follow-up to her
powerful debut, Jennifer Shaw Wolf keeps readers on their toes in
another dark, romantic story of murder and secrets.
Best Bits: Jennifer Shaw Wolf is the master of misdirection. I suspected who the killer was more than once, but I kept second-guessing myself because all of the potential killers are so interesting. No one is grinning menacingly or anything, and each time a character shows a dark side, they soon display kindness. Characters who have moments of goodness can't be murderers...right? So, when the killer was finally revealed I had an "OMG WHAAAAT" moment, and then went back and connected the dots. Jaycee weren't speaking when Rachel died, but little things trigger memories and guilt. I appreciated that it was a complicated situation, and that despite what had happened to their friendship, Jaycee was still determined to get some closure for someone who had a big impact on what kind of person she was.
Nit Picks: Much like my experience with another Netgalley read, this one had random letters throughout the book. It meant that I had to guess at what characters were saying, and occasionally what was happening. I can't fault the author's writing for this, but it's really hard to be engaged in a mystery and know exactly what's going on when you can't read all portions of the book. So, it gets calculated into the overall experience. I also would have liked some of the background characters to share a bit more of their histories in the story (assuming that wasn't in some of those sentences that I missed).
Dead Girls Don't Lie
By Jennifer Shaw Wolf
Published by Walker Childrens
352 Pages
Received via Netgalley
Rachel
died at two a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first
time. Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text.
Jaycee
and Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that
terrible night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before
Jaycee chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police
blame a growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it
has to do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first
clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret.
Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to
trust before she can expose the truth.
In
the follow-up to her powerful debut, Jennifer Shaw Wolf keeps readers
on their toes in another dark, romantic story of murder and secrets.
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Jennifer
Shaw Wolf grew up on a farm in the tiny town of St. Anthony, Idaho. She
spent cold Idaho mornings milking cows in the dark and attended a
school where Hunter’s Education was part of the sixth grade curriculum.
She’s always been a writer, whether it was sewing together books to read
to her little brothers or starting an underground newspaper in sixth
grade. She met the love of her life at Ricks College, (now BYU Idaho),
after he dropped her on her head. She graduated from Ricks and then
Brigham Young University, Provo with a degree in Broadcast
Communications. Now she lives in beautiful, green, (rainy) Lacey,
Washington with her husband and four kids. She loves to produce videos,
ski, ride horses, and read, but really all she has time for is chasing
kids and writing.
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Dead Girls Don't Lie by Jennifer Shaw Wolf
Rachel died at two
a.m . . . Three hours after Skyler kissed me for the first time.
Forty-five minutes after she sent me her last text.
Jaycee and
Rachel were best friends. But that was before. . .before that terrible
night at the old house. Before Rachel shut Jaycee out. Before Jaycee
chose Skyler over Rachel. Then Rachel is found dead. The police blame a
growing gang problem in their small town, but Jaycee is sure it has to
do with that night at the old house. Rachel’s text is the first
clue—starting Jaycee on a search that leads to a shocking secret.
Rachel’s death was no random crime, and Jaycee must figure out who to
trust before she can expose the truth.
In the follow-up to her
powerful debut, Jennifer Shaw Wolf keeps readers on their toes in
another dark, romantic story of murder and secrets.
Published by Walker Books
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Relativity by Cristin Bishara
If Ruby Wright could
have her way, her dad would never have met and married her stepmother
Willow, her best friend George would be more than a friend, and her mom
would still be alive. Ruby knows wishes can't come true; some things
just can't be undone. Then she discovers a tree in the middle of an Ohio
cornfield with a wormhole to nine alternative realities.
Suddenly,
Ruby can access completely different realities, each containing
variations of her life—if things had gone differently at key moments.
The windshield wiper missing her mother’s throat…her big brother
surviving his ill-fated birth…her father never having met Willow. Her
ideal world—one with everything and everyone she wants most—could be
within reach. But is there such a thing as a perfect world? What is Ruby
willing to give up to find out?
Published by Walker Books
Release Date: September 10, 2013
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