THIS BOOK SHOULD BE LISTED IN "books-you-should-read-at-least-once-in-your-life". Total page-turner, that's what this book is. Plot? Amazing, Brilliant, Mind-blowing I could not stop using exaggerating adjectives for this book.
For characters introduction :
Anna - The main Character
Elsie - Anna's best friend. Anna's partner in crime. The girl who was murdered.
Tate - Anna's boyfriend
It's all Anna POV. Normally, it would be boring if there's only one point of view in the story. The story goes Present and Before.
How things were simple and good Before and
How things are complicated and bad Now
ARUBA where they went to vacation, there was hardly ever a case, it was safe island, some robbery, drunk violations... but then, MURDER. No authorities know what to do. There was no vivid evidences. Thus... one investigator Dekker put all the blame to Anna.
THE WAITING
The first round of questioning is simple: “When did you last see Elise?” “What were you doing that day?” “Did you see anyone suspicious near the house?”
They take us one by one into the interview room, while the rest of the group slouches, tired and weepy on yellow plastic chairs in the lobby of the police station as people mill about us in a state of barely disguised panic. We’ve called our parents, stuttered through the terrible news, and now there’s nothing left to do but wait.
Curious... curious... curious is my state of mind at that time. I couldn't wait to know more. I read and read, consume the words, and I turn the page after page.
A few things happened in between. Her boyfriend, Tate family is rich and so help out everyone in the group with investigation but... Anna was...
Trial-After the fight
I lean back in my seat, exhausted. I’m sleeping even worse now, every click and rattle echoing through the isolation wing.
“How can you be so sure?”
Lee gives me a quiet smile, his brown eyes soft but resolute.
“I just am.”
But I can’t accept that, not when it feels like everyone in my life has turned out to have some other agenda, a hidden reason for making me say or do what they want.
“No, I mean it,” I tell him.
“Why are you here? You said it yourself, the embassy doesn’t want anything to do with me. Aren’t you risking a lot, going against them?”
Lee looks down. “I guess I just want to help. You’re stuck in here alone, and what they’re saying about you . . .”
“Why don’t you believe them?” I ask, insistent.
“Everyone else does, even people I thought were my friends. You don’t even know me, and you’re saying you believe me for sure.”
Lee pauses. He’s weighing something, I can tell, and when he looks up, there’s something tired in his expression. “My sister, this happened to her. Not murder,” he adds quickly. “Drugs.”
So yes, the lawyer given by Tate rich family back out on Anna. Her friends were proved innocent. Anna only has her father and her father is struggling. So someone good came out, Lee.
I don't want to reveal much. But don't worry the biggest plot twist is waiting ahead and the big surprise for your enjoying. So get ready (I'm sure you won't be ready for the ending... you can guess all you want but, no... this book is a beauty in century.)
THE WAITING
The first round of questioning is simple: “When did you last see Elise?” “What were you doing that day?” “Did you see anyone suspicious near the house?”
They take us one by one into the interview room, while the rest of the group slouches, tired and weepy on yellow plastic chairs in the lobby of the police station as people mill about us in a state of barely disguised panic. We’ve called our parents, stuttered through the terrible news, and now there’s nothing left to do but wait.
Curious... curious... curious is my state of mind at that time. I couldn't wait to know more. I read and read, consume the words, and I turn the page after page.
A few things happened in between. Her boyfriend, Tate family is rich and so help out everyone in the group with investigation but... Anna was...
Trial-After the fight
I lean back in my seat, exhausted. I’m sleeping even worse now, every click and rattle echoing through the isolation wing.
“How can you be so sure?”
Lee gives me a quiet smile, his brown eyes soft but resolute.
“I just am.”
But I can’t accept that, not when it feels like everyone in my life has turned out to have some other agenda, a hidden reason for making me say or do what they want.
“No, I mean it,” I tell him.
“Why are you here? You said it yourself, the embassy doesn’t want anything to do with me. Aren’t you risking a lot, going against them?”
Lee looks down. “I guess I just want to help. You’re stuck in here alone, and what they’re saying about you . . .”
“Why don’t you believe them?” I ask, insistent.
“Everyone else does, even people I thought were my friends. You don’t even know me, and you’re saying you believe me for sure.”
Lee pauses. He’s weighing something, I can tell, and when he looks up, there’s something tired in his expression. “My sister, this happened to her. Not murder,” he adds quickly. “Drugs.”
So yes, the lawyer given by Tate rich family back out on Anna. Her friends were proved innocent. Anna only has her father and her father is struggling. So someone good came out, Lee.
I don't want to reveal much. But don't worry the biggest plot twist is waiting ahead and the big surprise for your enjoying. So get ready (I'm sure you won't be ready for the ending... you can guess all you want but, no... this book is a beauty in century.)
Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up; slipping false memories in among the real ones just to have something to hold onto.
We're all strangers, in the end.
Wouldn't we all looked guilty if someone has searched enough?
Some pieces couldn't be glued back together. Some people weren't for fixing. Sometimes, the only thing to do was burn the whole fucking place down and start again.
