Content: G (death mentioned)
BUYING ADVISORY: MS - ESSENTIAL
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Jax’s Dad and Avery’s Mom may be twins, but their parents and the other three siblings have seen little of each other for the last 30 years. This summer, however, they have been summoned to the family’s private island, where the older generation used to spend their summers - Aunt Robbie has a debilitating disease and she wants to spruce up the island and maybe reunite the family at the same time. Jax and Avery seem to be the only ones interested in ferreting out the truth - even they don’t know what the truth may do to them.
Downing weaves an excellent family mystery - not the murder mystery kind. She manages to keep even the readers in the dark in the right ways until the very end. The family pathos is tender and poignant.
Cindy, Middle School Librarian, MLS
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