The quick cut: Two girls who don't get along end up roommates when two classmates are brutally murdered.
A real review:
Thank you to Penguin Group for providing the arc for an honest review.
Murder is rarely as impersonal as TV shows or movies can make it seem. A person dies brutally and the impact of that leaves devastating waves for everyone else left. It is this impact that Amy and Liz are left in.
Amy and Sarah are roommates who share everything until they have a very public fight at a party. The next morning, Amy wakes up to find Sarah dead, a long with her boyfriend. Senior year was supposed to be a dream, not a nightmare. Liz is a student reporter with big dreams and has no qualms about writing on the recent murders. She's hoping the story leads to a scholarship and elite college acceptance. Can these two work together to figure out who killed their classmates?
I love a good mystery, but I got to the end of this one and felt conflicted. The characters seem so self centered that they lack any true development and the killer reveal is predictably annoying. There were so many better options, so why choose that one?!?!
Amy has one fight and suddenly she can never take it back again. I can't imagine what she's going through considering she discovered the scene and is in a position to be a suspect. That being said, she seems incapable of getting past her ego in order to solve her outstanding questions.
Liz is a typical student reporter who wants to prove her worth and goes too far. While on the outside, she appears to have character development - it's not really the case. She still doesn't get how making the wrong choices benefited her and she only changed to improve her career choices. Considering her final result, she definitely achieved that.
An interesting murder mystery with predictable results and a lack of development.
My rating: 3.5 out of 5
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