The book cover and initial pages give away the crisis before you start reading. There’s been a serious car crash that has caused a fatality.
Spencer’s fragmented memories about the crash indicate a worrying amnesia, one that is tangled up with the too severe memories of her break-up with her two-year boyfriend Ethan Amoroso. The author manages to imply that Ethan possesses a dual nature. Simultaneously the golden boy of extremely rich parents, he’s also been sent away for behavioral treatment. His girlfriend knows he has…problems. But the upswell of hatred following an accident in which he was at the wheel takes her by surprise.
Why is Ethan hated so much? Why was he sent away for treatment? What caused their breakup? The reader senses that the answers will tie into the car crash that caused someone’s death. But, at the moment, the reader is as much at sea as Spencer and we are placed squarely in her mind as she tries to combat numbness from the painkillers, night terrors and the terrifying blankness in her cranium.
This novel about the aftereffects of a fatal car crash digs into you with the acuity of a splinter driving under your fingernail. The pain is excruciating, all the more so because you know digging it out will hurt just as much.
Spencer’s fragmented memories about the crash indicate a worrying amnesia, one that is tangled up with the too severe memories of her break-up with her two-year boyfriend Ethan Amoroso. The author manages to imply that Ethan possesses a dual nature. Simultaneously the golden boy of extremely rich parents, he’s also been sent away for behavioral treatment. His girlfriend knows he has…problems. But the upswell of hatred following an accident in which he was at the wheel takes her by surprise.
Why is Ethan hated so much? Why was he sent away for treatment? What caused their breakup? The reader senses that the answers will tie into the car crash that caused someone’s death. But, at the moment, the reader is as much at sea as Spencer and we are placed squarely in her mind as she tries to combat numbness from the painkillers, night terrors and the terrifying blankness in her cranium.
This novel about the aftereffects of a fatal car crash digs into you with the acuity of a splinter driving under your fingernail. The pain is excruciating, all the more so because you know digging it out will hurt just as much.