"I
become very still, trying to make myself shapeless so he'll forget I'm a GIRL,
because that feels the most dangerous of all."
Julia and her best friend Liv beat the
odds. When a man jumped on top of Liv, Julia did what any best friend would do.
She tried to pull Donald Jessup off Liv and ended up taking Liv's place so Liv
could get away. After she is found after two days of running from Donald,
everyone she knows tries to make her believe that she should just forget about
it. Julia begins to just bury it deep down and move on, like Liv begs her to
do.
Fast forward one year.
Another girl's body is found in the
same area Liv and Julia were attacked. When hearing about it, memories that
Julia has tried to bury finally resurface.
While Julia struggles trying to
contain these awful memories, Liv starts hooking up with Shane Cuthbert and
starving herself. Is it because she feels guilty for getting away from Donald
Jessup while Julia took her place?
When Julia finds out the truth about
Liv, will they ever be able to get back to how they were?
Will anything ever be the same after
the woods?
I really liked this book so I gave it
4 out of 5 stars. I felt so bad for Julia's character. Her therapists were
crazy. They literally didn't do anything to help her. Her family and best
friends tried to make her forget everything when obviously she should've tried
talking about it. Bottling things just doesn't help. At some point, it'll all
come out. I also in a way felt bad for Liv because her mother was extremely
hard on her and I think if I had a mother like that, I'd be like her. Obviously
since I haven't been in that situation I couldn't necessarily connect with
Julia's character but I feel like I would've handled it like her. I would
recommend this to any of my friends.
2 comments:
Hailey,
Did you like how Julia took Liv's place, or do you think that the author should have let Liv get captured?
Would you say that Liv seemed, in a sense, a little ungrateful to Julia for taking her place?
All in all, I thought your review was really well written and I enjoyed reading it.
Sarah,
I definitely liked that Julia took Liv's place because it's something any best friend should do.
Liv seemed ungrateful that Julia took her place but as you read the story, you find that it's really not that. Liv has so much guilt from what happened that she tries to just block it out and not talk about it.
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