★★★★ 1/2
"Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at this girlfriend on the bus."
It seems like I have been waiting forever to read this book!!! The writer's portrayal of fourteen-year-old Evie is precise and the insight into her young mind is beyond solid and one of the most realistic I have read in a very long time. The language was beautiful and horrifying and gut-wrenchingly real. I felt like I was in Evie's head the entire time and the general feeling of the book kept bringing me back to my teenage years. The novel could have easily been classified as Young Adult if it wasn't for the very mature subject matter. And that bring me to Evie's ultimate involvement in unspeakable crimes that I couldn't stop thinking about from the very first page. She seemed so young to be caught up in a world completely unknown and foreign to her. There was a part of me that didn't want to keep reading, but I couldn't put the book down. A brilliant work of fiction by an amazing new author.
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