By: Nova Ren Suma
Pub. Date: March 21, 2013
Publisher: Dutton Juvenile
Pages: 354
Source: ARC
Seventeen-year-old Lauren is having visions of girls who have gone missing. And all these girls have just one thing in common—they are 17 and gone without a trace. As Lauren struggles to shake these waking nightmares, impossible questions demand urgent answers: Why are the girls speaking to Lauren? How can she help them? And… is she next? As Lauren searches for clues, everything begins to unravel, and when a brush with death lands her in the hospital, a shocking truth emerges, changing everything.
With complexity and richness, Nova Ren Suma serves up a beautiful, visual, fresh interpretation of what it means to be lost.
One girl in particular, Abigail Sinclair has been missing
for a few months and while everyone else is thinks she ran away, Lauren is
convinced something else happened to her. She talks to Abby's grandmother and boyfriend
to try to piece Abby's last day together. Between this and the clues that Abby
is leaving her, she is getting closer and closer to finding out what really
happened.
17 & Gone is
part mystery, and part thriller. It also shows mental disease in a very real
light. To be honest, I wasn't enjoying the story as much as I wanted to, but
then the last 100 pages completely hooked me. It was exciting to see how it
all came together. I don't want to give anything away, making this review a little harder to write, but it was interesting to see how Nova Ren Suma mixed mental illness with kidnapping, lies, and missing girls.
This is the first book I have read by Suma. I am
excited to read Imaginary Girls,
which I hear is fantastic!
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
That's too bad that it didn't get interesting until the last 100 pages, but it sounds like a fascinating story. Nice review! :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a really interesting idea for a book. And even though it took a while for you to get into it, I'm still very much intrigued by it.
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