Language: R (51 swears 4 'f'); Mature Content: PG-13 (off-page sex, nondescript brief kissing, underage drinking, and underage drinking and driving); PG-13 Bloody gunshot wound, purposely run off the road by another vehicle, Mention of sexual assault on a high school student by the teacher)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL - HIGH
16yo best friends, Cam and Blair, are making a podcast about the twenty-year-old cold case of Clarissa Campbell, who’s been missing since the night of a senior graduation party in the local woods of Oreville, Washington in 1999. Clarissa was a popular cheerleader dating a popular football player and her life seemed perfect to outsiders. Mr. Park, the journalism teacher, has assigned a project to his students and that’s why Cam came up with the cold case podcast idea. Blair and Cam are dealing with their own personal struggles but become devoted to figuring out Clarissa’s story. They soon realize they’re in over their heads and that they’re in danger themselves.
The story is so interesting that I didn’t want to put the book down. Overly political statements are a bit confusing when Cam’s friend Sophie blurts them out. I enjoyed the character development throughout the story. The ethnicity is mixed and includes Black, Mexican American, Korean American, white, and Filipino.
LynnDell Watson, Delta HS Librarian
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