My Rating:

Favorite Quotes:

I never analyzed our friendship that much; it just happened, in the way a tree grows, or a sponge cake rises. We just happened.

The house hits me with the pungent aroma of porridge and urine. I feel like some aging Goldilocks in a horror version of the fairy tale as I make my way through the dark kitchen.

There were other girls like me at school, ghosts in the classroom, invisible at playtime, our voices never heard, stories never shared.

My Review:

I despised the characters in this book, they were all selfish, petty, and horrid people, everyone had their own agenda and no one was trustworthy or at all admirable in any way. I grew impatient with them and wondered why they bothered with each other as I would have surely made tracks quickly and left either one of them eating my dust. Yet this crafty author tugged and poked at my curiosity and I found I needed to know what happened that fateful night, as they were all obviously lying like dirty rugs. Multiple twists and unpalatable turns later, I was glad I had hung in there. I had an inkling of some of their many evildoings but certainly didn’t foresee the totality.