Author: Kate Karyus Quinn
Publication Date: June 10th 2014
Publisher: HarperTeen
~An advance readers copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
Publisher: HarperTeen
~An advance readers copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review~
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Welcome to Gardnerville.
A place where no one gets sick. And no one ever dies.
Except...
There’s a price to pay for paradise. Every fourth year, the strange power that fuels the town exacts its payment by infecting teens with deadly urges. In a normal year in Gardnerville, teens might stop talking to their best friends. In a fourth year, they’d kill them.
Four years ago, Skylar’s sister, Piper, was locked away after leading sixteen of her classmates to a watery grave. Since then, Skylar has lived in a numb haze, struggling to forget her past and dull the pain of losing her sister. But the secrets and memories Piper left behind keep taunting Skylar—whispering that the only way to get her sister back is to stop Gardnerville’s murderous cycle once and for all.
A place where no one gets sick. And no one ever dies.
Except...
There’s a price to pay for paradise. Every fourth year, the strange power that fuels the town exacts its payment by infecting teens with deadly urges. In a normal year in Gardnerville, teens might stop talking to their best friends. In a fourth year, they’d kill them.
Four years ago, Skylar’s sister, Piper, was locked away after leading sixteen of her classmates to a watery grave. Since then, Skylar has lived in a numb haze, struggling to forget her past and dull the pain of losing her sister. But the secrets and memories Piper left behind keep taunting Skylar—whispering that the only way to get her sister back is to stop Gardnerville’s murderous cycle once and for all.
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I know I've said it before, but this has to be one of the
hardest books to review because the slightest thing could really turn the way
you think about it and ruin the whole build-up to the reveal. I'll start by
telling you about the town, Gardnerville.
It's a coincidence that I was watching Haven while reading this, and in
a way Gardnerville is a lot like Haven. Weird, complicated, something lurking behind what we see and what
we don't see. And just like Haven, Gardnerville is a special place with a
rather destructive founding, and with a little similarity to some
"special" people, that's where the familiarity ends, but I'll get to
the latter part in a minute. Gardnerville is a place where almost everything is
quite perfect, with their quite perfect health score and quite perfect lives,
except for that pesky little undertone of fear.
