Found this book today at my library on the new releases shelf. Thought the cover looked kinda cool so I brought it home (yes I have extremely high standards in choosing a book to read). This book is about 260 pages but I am still surprised that I finished it today!
After some financial struggles 16 year old Maggie and her parents are forced to move from Chicago into an inherited, run down, lakeside side house in the tiny town of Gill Creek, Wisconsin. Being home schooled and with only two other neighbors, 16 yr old Pauline and almost 18 yr old Liam (each with a single parent), relationships take an interesting turn. Add in a serial killer who is killing teenaged girls and tensions are running high. Oh and I almost forgot the spirit who is trying to find a way to protect these three young people it has become attached to.
I enjoyed this story greatly. I felt the characters were well developed. First there is Maggie who is more grown up than she should be from trying not to be a burden to her struggling parents, Pauline who remains childlike and naive since her father's death a few years before and Liam, quiet and reserved, the total opposite of his outspoken Atheist father. It has mystery, suspense, drama, heartache, love and loss. The ending wasn't my ending but it worked well with this tale.
Quotes:
“The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.”
“You're the main character of your life," Jacie said. "You're too important to die. That's how everybody feels.”
