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laurenboren's review
2.0
It was fun to read a book that takes place in my hometown and Straley did an amazing job of describing it (other than an unrealistic amount of sunny days haha). Otherwise, the story just didn’t grab me or seem any kind of realistic. A modern teenage girl who says “jeepers” all the time really bothered me.
constantreader471's review
4.0
4 stars for an interesting mystery that hinges on a consumer DNA test. Georgianna, who goes by George, decides to do a DNA test of both herself and her mom. She swabs her mom's mouth while her mom is sleeping. The test results show that her mom is not her biological mother. This opens up a long buried secret. Her mom is arrested and Blossom Younger, George's best friend, goes to her dad who was a private investigator until he killed someone. Blossom visits her dad in prison for advice.
This is book 8 in the series, and I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the previous books in the series, which explain why he ended up in prison. The book is set in Juneau, Alaska. George and Blossom are teenagers in secondary school.
My wife and I have visited Juneau twice and it is a lovely place, but it rains a lot.
One quote: "Rain had fallen the night before, and as the sun burned through the clouds,steam rose off the blacktop and rays filtered down through the spruce and the hemlock trees."
DNA tests can be a good thing. My wife and I have done DNA tests to find out which of us carries the Cystic Fibrosis gene. We learned that I am the CF gene carrier.
Thanks to Soho Crime for sending me this eARC through Edelweiss.
Pub. date Dec 7, 2021
This is book 8 in the series, and I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the previous books in the series, which explain why he ended up in prison. The book is set in Juneau, Alaska. George and Blossom are teenagers in secondary school.
My wife and I have visited Juneau twice and it is a lovely place, but it rains a lot.
One quote: "Rain had fallen the night before, and as the sun burned through the clouds,steam rose off the blacktop and rays filtered down through the spruce and the hemlock trees."
DNA tests can be a good thing. My wife and I have done DNA tests to find out which of us carries the Cystic Fibrosis gene. We learned that I am the CF gene carrier.
Thanks to Soho Crime for sending me this eARC through Edelweiss.
Pub. date Dec 7, 2021
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