I particularly enjoyed seeing contrasts between friendships/relationships that were healthy and loving vs. While it does feature the classic absent parent trope and a standard romantic subplot, the book also includes a lot of interesting side relationships. What I enjoyed most about this book was the relationships between all of the different characters. I think that as long as you don’t take the book too seriously, it’s very enjoyable. This is something that would normally be upsetting in a mystery novel, but while reading it I genuinely got the feeling that this was exactly what Karen McManus was going for–and I was into it. Basically, the entire plot relies on every character being super sketch for no good reason. It reminded me a lot of Pretty Little Liars (if you’ve ever watched that show). One thing that I want to start off my review with is that this book is very campy. Once I caught up on those reviews, I was able to pick this book back up and finish it fairly quickly. I admit that it took me a while to get into the story but what really kept me from reading was a bunch of blog tours that I had signed up for. This book took me 56 days to finish, which is unusually long but not entirely the book’s fault. The question is, how do you know which secrets are better left undiscovered? One thing is very clear to Ellery–everyone in the town is keeping secrets. On top of that, yet another girl fails to return home. Someone has begun vandalizing buildings, threatening to make homecoming the target of their next violent spree. What she didn’t expect, was for the towns dark past to come back with a vengeance. Their aunt went missing when she was seventeen.įive years ago the school’s homecoming queen was murdered.Įllery, as a true-crime fan, is desperate to find answers to all of the questions her mother always refused to answer. When twins Ellery and Ezra move to Echo Ridge to live with their estranged grandmother, they are forced to come face-to-face with a town they know very little about.
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