Now you all know I try to always be nice in my reviews and I will say that all the bizarre happenings intrigued me enough to finish this book… but the twisted relationships just really disturbed me and made it hard to like this story very much.) creates a tale of twisted family ties that begins with a college coed running from an affair turned sour. If it was trying to be, then maybe I would have felt differently, but instead I was just disturbed. I love weird stuff (my favorite author is Chuck Palahniuk, for crying out loud), but this was just plain bizarre without trying to be. I really cannot recommend this book though. All sorts of secret siblings with hidden feelings for each other and a baby daddy that was basically a manwhore with lots of secret children. The relationships in this book were also weird and unrealistic.
I didn’t feel as though there was any suspense or mystery, just strange people doing even stranger things. So that took away a lot of the scary factor and mystery for me. We as the reader know who the intruder is from almost the beginning and I never found this person to be all that threatening or scary, just plain weird. As in, inappropriate relationships with no explanation or justification. Instead of scary creepy though, it was just… bizarre and gross creepy. I loooove scary and creepy and I was totally expecting that with this book. class, and I was sorely disappointed despite the promising sounding story line.
It won awards and was one of the options for me to read for my YA Lit. What or who does he want? Can they catch him before things turn dangerous? Soon, the intruder turns more aggressive, breaking into the home and stealing the sibling’s possessions. As if their newly discovered relationship isn’t enough to deal with, they must now deal with these strange occurrences which Jay details: strange things showing up in the house (dead birds, snakeskin), and indescribable noises on his music recordings. Quickly, her newfound brother, Jay, reveals that strange and frightening things have been happening at the cottage. They soon discover they share the same father and that neither one knew about the other. She accepts his offer and when she arrives, is shocked to find a young man already inhabiting it. She desperately wants to get away, so her estranged father offers her his old cottage in Canada for the summer. While there, she began an affair with a professor which did not end well.
Mimi Shapiro has just finished her first year of college at NYU. Genre/Audience: Young Adult fiction, mystery, suspense
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