A review by sparklethenpop
Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff

3.0

So, I first put this book on my holds list because the map of Upstate NY on the cover showed places like Gloversville, Johnstown, and Amsterdam. Yes, this is a silly reason to pick a book but the Gloversville factor is what first introduced me to Richard Russo. Anyway, as far as I could tell, they were never in Gloversville or any of those places. They did spend time in Lake Placid and I'm not sure their depiction was totally accurate. I can't believe that so many people in Lake Placid (a site of an Olympic Games and a world known winter sports destination) would constantly be complimenting the main character on her British accent. I've never spent much time in Lake Placid but they made it seem very small townie, which may be true, but not very worldly, which I don't think is true.

Anyway, as for the actual story, it was a somewhat fun but complicated mystery until it wasn't. There was an twist at the end that made me question why I had bothered to read the first almost 200 pages? I wasn't prepared for the way it ended at all.