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ridgewaygirl's review against another edition
4.0
Lizzie and Evie have been best friends for forever. They're next door neighbors and have shared everything for as long as Lizzie can remember. Evie's family is perfect, too, from her charismatic father to her queen bee older sister. And then Evie disappears and Lizzie is left to wonder what happened, while feeling that she should know, that the clues must all be there since she and Evie were closer than sisters and told each other everything.
Megan Abbott has crafted a tense and finely tuned book about loss and growing up and the way memory can turn on you. Lizzie's determined to get her friend back, to put that golden family next door back together, even as she learns that nothing is perfect.
Megan Abbott has crafted a tense and finely tuned book about loss and growing up and the way memory can turn on you. Lizzie's determined to get her friend back, to put that golden family next door back together, even as she learns that nothing is perfect.
alison_marie's review against another edition
3.0
The ending...whoo boy. Pretty intense/borderline disturbing.
ali_nf's review against another edition
3.0
I put this on my reading list a very long time ago, and I'm not sure why I thought the story of a disappeared 13 year old girl would be a fun read. I felt a vague sense of unread throughout the book and after it ended. Which I guess means she's a good writer.
sandin954's review
3.0
This book takes the reader through the dark secrets of a 1980s suburb with a 13 year old girl as the guide. The narrative voice really captured the emotion of adolescence but the plotting was just a bit too circular for my taste. I listened the audio version which was wonderfully narrated by Emily Bauer.
dantastic's review against another edition
4.0
Teenage neighbors Lizzie and Evie are thick as thieves. When Evie disappears, Lizzie's world is shaken to its foundations. Who was driving the maroon car Lizzie saw circling the block when Evie was abducted and does he have a connection to Evie's disappearance? And will Evie be found alive?
I initally discovered Megan Abbott through her noir works like Queenpin, after hearing people mentioning her in the same breath as Christa Faust. While her latest books haven't been noir, she sure paints a dark picture of what life as a teenage girl is like.
The End of Everything is about what happens to a child's family after the child is abducted. The Ververs and their friends and neighbors cope in different ways. Mrs. Verver hits the pills. Dusty Verver, Evie's sister, gets even bitchier than normal. And Mr. Verver leans on Lizzie, the neighbor girl who happens to be Evie's best friend. And Lizzie takes it upon herself to unravel what happened.
Even in the suburbs, evil is afoot, something Lizzie gradually pieces together. She makes some questionable choices but I can't imagine things going a different way if I were in her place. Her dealing with Evie's disappearance makes The End of Everything something of a coming of age tale. The entire cast gets tossed into the crucible and not a one comes out unscathed.
This book reads like one of those cheesy Lifetime made for TV movies, only deadly serious and written by the literary offspring of S.E. Hinton and Richard Stark. To paraphrase something I've said before, I'd rather be an expendable partner in a Parker caper than be a teenage girl in one of Megan Abbott's novels.
There's not a whole lot more I can tell without spoiling any of the details. Things went down about the way I thought they would but that didn't make things any less chilling. If there's one thing I took from this novel, it's that I do not want to father girls. If you have a male child, you only have to worry about one penis. If you have a girl, you have to worry about all of them.
Four out of five stars. The Megster ran wild on me again this time.
I initally discovered Megan Abbott through her noir works like Queenpin, after hearing people mentioning her in the same breath as Christa Faust. While her latest books haven't been noir, she sure paints a dark picture of what life as a teenage girl is like.
The End of Everything is about what happens to a child's family after the child is abducted. The Ververs and their friends and neighbors cope in different ways. Mrs. Verver hits the pills. Dusty Verver, Evie's sister, gets even bitchier than normal. And Mr. Verver leans on Lizzie, the neighbor girl who happens to be Evie's best friend. And Lizzie takes it upon herself to unravel what happened.
Even in the suburbs, evil is afoot, something Lizzie gradually pieces together. She makes some questionable choices but I can't imagine things going a different way if I were in her place. Her dealing with Evie's disappearance makes The End of Everything something of a coming of age tale. The entire cast gets tossed into the crucible and not a one comes out unscathed.
This book reads like one of those cheesy Lifetime made for TV movies, only deadly serious and written by the literary offspring of S.E. Hinton and Richard Stark. To paraphrase something I've said before, I'd rather be an expendable partner in a Parker caper than be a teenage girl in one of Megan Abbott's novels.
There's not a whole lot more I can tell without spoiling any of the details. Things went down about the way I thought they would but that didn't make things any less chilling. If there's one thing I took from this novel, it's that I do not want to father girls. If you have a male child, you only have to worry about one penis. If you have a girl, you have to worry about all of them.
Four out of five stars. The Megster ran wild on me again this time.
lilcoop71's review against another edition
4.0
Absolutely beautiful writing. I had slight issues with the story--not that it was so disturbing, which it was--but the 'Nancy Drew' aspects. Also it gave me nightmares. A bit of a tough read if you have a daughter!
banrions's review against another edition
4.0
god, her descriptions of girls and girlhood and growing up are so fucking on point. if you are going to read a book about a teen girl going missing, make it this one.
jennyzurita's review against another edition
3.0
I thought this book was going towards a different direction than it did and didn’t really like how it ended.
chanteld's review against another edition
3.0
Domestic thriller/mystery and something else hard to determine the exact genre for this. But it is all so very disturbing.