Library Book
Genre: YA/Contemporary/Mystery/Romance/LGBT
Number of Pages: 356
📖PLOT SUMMARY FROM GOODREADS📖
Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny.
But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes.
On a furious hunt for answers, Chloe discovers she’s not the only one Shara kissed. There’s also Smith, Shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and Rory, Shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. The three have nothing in common except Shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle Shara’s trail of clues and find her. It’ll be worth it, if Chloe can drag Shara back before graduation to beat her fair-and-square.
Thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break-ins, puzzles, and secrets revealed on monogrammed stationery, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. And maybe—probably not, but maybe—more to Shara, too.
💭THOUGHTS💭
This book has been on my list for a while and when I saw it on the Libby app I thought that I would snap it up. It also fitted in nicely with Pride month and my reading goal of cosy mystery.
The writing was good and descriptive. At times it took a bit more concentration, but overall I was able to follow what was happening. I did think that the story was going to end a couple of times, then it carried on. This made it feel slightly more drawn out than it necessarily needed to be, however there was a lovely message behind the story and each part of the story emphasised that message well.
The chapters were long, but split up with random one page notes between different characters. Things (such as the random notes) were gradually explained throughout the book, which is why I thought that the story would end on a few occasions. This did interrupt the flow of the story, but I made it to the end eventually!
Each chapter had a heading that allowed you to keep track of the timeline which I appreciated. Each note also had a heading so you had some idea of what it was about.
The characters were good and illustrated the complex things goings on in a teenagers life well. I enjoyed gradually finding out about them all personally.
The setting was interesting. I don’t often read about books set in a school, but it was good. You also got to travel around the local area with the characters which added to it and made it feel more real.
Overall an interesting read that touched on a number of sensitive social topics.
⭐Rated 3/5⭐
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