A review by howifeelaboutbooks
Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan

2.0

Finn and Chloe need to make their college applications stand out. Everyone has good grades, talents, and extracurricular activities. So they decide to fake a kidnapping. Faking a kidnapping seems like a bad idea, right? Having to lie to everyone, keep the truth under wraps, make sure the "victim" stays hidden, and wasting police resources. Despite going into the book knowing this was a dumb idea, I started to like Finn. She was the girl who had to face the public, the one who had to lie, to act like her best friend was missing. In reality, Chloe was hiding in the basement of an empty house. But things start to spiral out of control, as you might expect, when the lake is searched, and someone has to be taken into custody. The ending was a bit ambiguous, and could go two ways, but if it went the way I'm imagining, it redeemed the whole story. Otherwise, it's all a bit depressing, with no redemption.