Language: R (27 swears 2 'f'); Mature Content: PG (implied drug use; kissing) Violence: PG-13 (hit and run)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
A group of friends drives to Hicks Road one dark night for some spooky fun. When 17yo Lennox sees a blonde girl dart in front of her car and she feels the thump of a hit, she stops the car to look for the girl. Her friends reassured her that it must have been a deer and that they didn’t see anything. Lennox is worried that she’s becoming schizophrenic like her mother and starting to hallucinate. Being new in town, Lennox doesn’t know her friends well at all and when they tell her over and over that she didn’t hit a person, she believes them.
I like how the author created the uncertainty of whether or not the main character is reliable. The setting is wonderfully spooky. The unstable family life of the main character is an interesting part of the story. Allison has tanned skin. Implied white characters.
LynnDell Watson, Delta High School Librarian
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