![]() Obviously this is no one's fault but my own, and as a novel for YA readers I think it will be well received as it still gives off a similar vibe as One Of Us Is Lying, although I found this one to be much slower paced and less twisty than her previous work. This is a difficult review to write, as I was so taken with McManus's debut last year, but as an adult reader I didn't feel her sophomore effort lived up to the hype I had created in my head. "If I believed in omens, this would be a bad one." "If I believed in omens, this would be a bad one." This is a difficult review to write, as I was so taken with McManus's debut last year, but as an adult reader I didn't feel her sophomore effort lived up to the hype I had created in my head. Although it's a pity that they won't know what he did with her body or how he killed her, he'd most likely not confessed to it anyways.Īs the book ended on the note, some things are best left unsaid. Ellery figured it would cause more damage than mending at this point. The reason Ellery didn't say anything to anyone for Peter doing this, even when his answer was a confession, "I thought she was your mother.", she didn't want to devastate her family and mostly her mother, for fear of her backsliding in her recovery, and this feeling even more guilty for her sister's death. When Sarah rejected him as well, he must have gotten angry and lashed out and killed her (either intentionally or unintentionally), and thus gave him his lust for young, homecoming Queen girls, and the tendency of killing them. (view spoiler) [He was a vindictive, egotistical monster, and didn't take Sadie's rejection well at all, so he wanted revenge, or he tried to force himself onto "Sadie" when it was Sarah. Which is why in Echo Ridge, it's safest to keep your secrets to yourself.more The thing is, secrets are dangerous-and most people aren't good at keeping them. And the longer she's in Echo Ridge, the clearer it becomes that everyone there is hiding something. Her mother has them her grandmother does too. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.Įllery knows all about secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone's declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. ![]() The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. And before school even Echo Ridge is small-town America.
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