This review was a little hard for me. While this was a really good story, it wasn’t quite what I was expecting I guess, so that kind of colored my opinion as I got started. I don’t know how to describe what I was actually thinking it was going to be, so those issues are just my own, and I would still highly recommend this book. In fact, I actually pulled up my Words with Friends app and started playing again. But realizing after reading this book how bad of a Scrabble player I actually am. As much as I want to use those words like they do in this book, I can never seem to remember them as I am actually playing.

If you’re coming to this book for a really good mystery, with a little bit of an unreliable narrator, in that she doesn’t remember that day very well, you will be pleased. All of the clues were puzzled out by Najwa as the story moved along. Different words, unusual words, perfect Scrabble words, were used to describe things both by Najwa, as well as by the person who was behind it all, leaving little clues. I actually even had a little inkling it was who it turned out to be early in the book, but of course lots of other things happened to confuse and mislead me and the main characters as the plot progressed. The final reveal was really good, and wrapped it all up perfectly.

Can’t wait to add this to my school library!

Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.