This book is being called a mystery and a thriller. It is only partly the first and much too slow to be the second. There is a death, caused by persons or events unknown. The victim may have been murdered. She may have died by accident. Since she was found several days later, in water, it's just too hard to prove one or the other.
Alison is 18, visiting a Caribbean resort for a summer vacation with her parents and 7 year old sister. She dies at the end of the vacation. Her sister, Claire, and her parents are devastated by this. So hurt they move from the East Coast to California. Claire changes her name from her first to her second and becomes Emily, the girl who didn't have an older sister.
Emily returns to New York City when she grows up. She tries to keep the memory of her big sister to herself, but one day takes a fateful taxi ride. The taxi is driven by one of the men accused of killing Alison. Emily decides to investigate the death through The driver. She also tries to find out who her sister actually was. She doesn't have a clear memory of Alison beyond the girl who occasionally played with her and then went off to do big girl things.
This book is more a literary novel than anything else. A lot of things happen, but nothing happens. The characters are changed in the same way normal life changes people. We grow up, we gain experience, things we thought we understood change because of our greater experience.
I liked the book. It's probably best read either inside on a snowy day when you can't do anything or at a Caribbean beach where you don't want to do anything. It is well written, although the "Island speak" could have been done better.
Alison is 18, visiting a Caribbean resort for a summer vacation with her parents and 7 year old sister. She dies at the end of the vacation. Her sister, Claire, and her parents are devastated by this. So hurt they move from the East Coast to California. Claire changes her name from her first to her second and becomes Emily, the girl who didn't have an older sister.
Emily returns to New York City when she grows up. She tries to keep the memory of her big sister to herself, but one day takes a fateful taxi ride. The taxi is driven by one of the men accused of killing Alison. Emily decides to investigate the death through The driver. She also tries to find out who her sister actually was. She doesn't have a clear memory of Alison beyond the girl who occasionally played with her and then went off to do big girl things.
This book is more a literary novel than anything else. A lot of things happen, but nothing happens. The characters are changed in the same way normal life changes people. We grow up, we gain experience, things we thought we understood change because of our greater experience.
I liked the book. It's probably best read either inside on a snowy day when you can't do anything or at a Caribbean beach where you don't want to do anything. It is well written, although the "Island speak" could have been done better.