Review: Suspenseful
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 3, 2013
The protagonist, a girl named Harper, is a troubled teen who has been through several foster homes and is finally placed in a group home with three other girls. The place is huge and lavish. The kind of place where they warn you "stay away from the third floor!" and they lock you in your bedroom at night, not because you're a troubled teen, but because -- well I can't say, because it's a spoiler.There's the brooding fellow she sees out her bedroom window. A beautiful cheerleader begging him for something. The cheerleader ends up dead.There's the boy Harper meets while she's buying a back pack. He flirts. She flirts. The next day at school he treats her like he doesn't know her.There's the necklace Harper's mother gave her she's never supposed to take off -- but after an "illness" that keeps her in bed for a week, she can't remember why she needs to wear it.Suspenseful. This book is a page turner. It reminds me of the old time Gothic novels, but with bright lights and pretty people instead of big castles and brooding dark strangers.