Published by: Balzer+Bray, February 16th 2016
Genre: YA, Mystery, Murder
Pages: 368
Format: Ebook
WHO KILLED GRETCHEN MEYER?
Fear grips the residents of Hidden Falls the night Sonia Feldman and her best friend, Gretchen Meyer, are attacked in the woods. Sonia was lucky to escape with her life, but Gretchen’s body is discovered at the bottom of a waterfall. Beautiful, popular, and seemingly untouchable, Gretchen can’t be gone. Even as Sonia struggles with guilt and confusion over having survived, the whole town is looking to her for information…could she have seen something that will lead the police to the killer?
At the top of the list of suspects is Gretchen’s ex-boyfriend—and Sonia’s longtime enemy—Marcus Perez. So when Marcus comes to Sonia for help clearing his name, she agrees, hoping to find evidence the police need to prove he’s the killer. But as Gretchen’s many secrets emerge and the suspects add up, Sonia feels less sure of Marcus’s involvement, and more afraid for herself. Could Marcus, the artist, the screwup, the boy she might be falling for have attacked her? Killed her best friend? And if it wasn’t him in the woods that night…who could it have been?
I'M GONNA SPOIL THE HECK OUT OF THIS BOOK, SO DON'T READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED THE BOOK.
I'm so frustrated!! I feel a bit like I've wasted hours reading this for nothing. If you've read the book, you know it was Sonia who killed Gretchen. So why, GODS WHYYY, did she spend THE ENTIRE BOOK trying to solve a murder she knew she'd committed???? It seems like she wasted a tonne of time investigating the murder, and I wasted my time reading about her solving the murder, when all along she knew SHE'D done it. I could understand it if she had amnesia but no, she knew all along. What the heck? And why did she confess to Marcus? She could have kept quiet and got away with it. The end was just ... ugh what?? I'm very confused about the whole thing.
But digressing, this is written pretty well. This book has all the staples you'd expect of the genre, and it does them all well. And I like that she owned her crime and confessed. While I'm really frustrated with the pointlessness of Sonia's story, and the characters never really struck me in any way, Take The Fall is actually a decent book.
I'm so frustrated!! I feel a bit like I've wasted hours reading this for nothing. If you've read the book, you know it was Sonia who killed Gretchen. So why, GODS WHYYY, did she spend THE ENTIRE BOOK trying to solve a murder she knew she'd committed???? It seems like she wasted a tonne of time investigating the murder, and I wasted my time reading about her solving the murder, when all along she knew SHE'D done it. I could understand it if she had amnesia but no, she knew all along. What the heck? And why did she confess to Marcus? She could have kept quiet and got away with it. The end was just ... ugh what?? I'm very confused about the whole thing.
But digressing, this is written pretty well. This book has all the staples you'd expect of the genre, and it does them all well. And I like that she owned her crime and confessed. While I'm really frustrated with the pointlessness of Sonia's story, and the characters never really struck me in any way, Take The Fall is actually a decent book.
Characters ★★★☆☆
Setting/world ★★★☆☆
Writing ★★★☆☆
I definitely agree with you! That bis reveal was nothing, it was all just a wild goose chase.
ReplyDeleteIt was so frustrating!! Glad I'm not the only one who thought so.
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