Review: Didn't like at all
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 11, 2013
This had big time discrepancy for me...  When I was a teen, I lost 5 boys I knew to car accidents, in one year alone.  We had just graduated.  They weren't murdered per se, but I remember the emotional fall out from those accidents and the boys girlfriends reactions to their untimely death.  Lauren's reaction left me cold and wondering if she was a robot and this was a science fiction story instead.  I struggled with this.The time frame reference wasn't there either.  I hate reading or watching something and all of a suddenly it is days, weeks, months or years down the track and the author hasn't explained how we got to that particular point in time.The sheer implausibility of this blew me away.POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERTI couldn't understand how Lauren went thru 3 guys!  One Ryan, two Nick and then three, Derrick.  Nick was a 'Huh, What the?'  Nowhere did it mention until much, MUCH later that Lauren was never asked formally by Nick would she go out with him.  He just assumed and stepped into Ryan's shoes.Derrick always liked Lauren but since she was going out with Ryan, he never admitted his feelings for her.I didn't like the best friends either.  Elizabeth and Bryn were shallow, superficial cardboard types.  The breakup and subsequent knowledge that her boyfriend of 4 years had been cheating on her was handled badly.  there was little emotion from Lauren.  it was really weird to read because I think I had more of a reaction reading and thinking what I would do in that position than what was actually written. What REALLY had me spinning  was Lauren's parents!  How could they let Lauren try and find Lauren's killer BY HERSELF AND HER FRIENDS?  Wouldn't most responsible parents GO TO THE POLICE?  Noooooo.  they let Lauren HANDLE FINDING THE KILLER HERSELF!  "sure Mum, you almost lost me in a car accident, so let me finnish the job the killer tried to do by putting myself in danger trying to find said killer so they can have another crack at it to keep their secret safe!" Also there was minimal mention of Ryan's parents trying to do anything to find out why their sons break lines in his car were cut!This smacks of a creative writing assignment that wasn't thought out thoroughly nor written with the teen perspective in mind.  To the teen, THE WORLD IS ENDING with ANY crisis, imagined or real in their world.  This was an adult author totally out of touch with how a teen would react to the situation in this book.My advice, don't waste your time.