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A review by biscuitcrux
The End of Everything by Megan Abbott
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I take it that this has a lot of bad reviews because readers didn't like the subject matter. Seems like one-starring a murder mystery because "murder is bad, people!"
I felt this was very well-written, loaded with description, heavy with feeling, but not in a way that felt overwritten or purple. It's not a whodunnit, it's sort of a why-dunnit. Thirteen year old Lizzie's best friend Evie disappears after school one day, and suspiscion falls on a local man whose car Lizzie saw driving by twice when they were together. The majority of the book is about Lizzie's emotional life in the wake of Evie's disappearance, and her relationship with Evie's family, who lives next door. Lizzie manages to find some clues that the police missed, but she lies about how she obtained that information. She becomes weirdly close with Evie's father, who in turn had been weirdly close with Evie's 16-year old sister, Dusty. Dusty is acting pretty weird after Evie's disappearance, does she know more than she's saying?
This book condensed all the gross feelings and confusion of being a tween girl and dumped it into a book I really couldn't look away from. May bump this up to five stars later if I'm still thinking about it.
I felt this was very well-written, loaded with description, heavy with feeling, but not in a way that felt overwritten or purple. It's not a whodunnit, it's sort of a why-dunnit. Thirteen year old Lizzie's best friend Evie disappears after school one day, and suspiscion falls on a local man whose car Lizzie saw driving by twice when they were together. The majority of the book is about Lizzie's emotional life in the wake of Evie's disappearance, and her relationship with Evie's family, who lives next door. Lizzie manages to find some clues that the police missed, but she lies about how she obtained that information. She becomes weirdly close with Evie's father, who in turn had been weirdly close with Evie's 16-year old sister, Dusty. Dusty is acting pretty weird after Evie's disappearance, does she know more than she's saying?
This book condensed all the gross feelings and confusion of being a tween girl and dumped it into a book I really couldn't look away from. May bump this up to five stars later if I'm still thinking about it.