Originally posted at The Wandering Fangirl.

While a beautifully written novel that highlights the downward spiral of a good girl thanks to the murder of a girl near her town, Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone didn’t really resonate with me. It’s definitely wonderfully written, with tons of atmosphere. Kat Rosenfield knows how to get the reader into the novel, and I felt just as claustrophobic and confused as Becca, our main character, does as she goes through her last summer in a small town before going to college. Unfortunately, I didn’t care much for Becca or her constant downward spiral, and liked Amelia Anne’s brief chapters of the last day of her life a lot more. For such a short time in her life, Amelia Anne was drawn vividly, and the mystery of her death kept me going. Becca, in constrast, was a constant downer. I eventually found myself skimming through Becca’s chapters to find out who killed Amelia Anne.