I had a little trouble getting into this one at first because it was third person point of view, and that’s not my favorite type of story. However there were things in the story that kept me going. It isn’t really a curse/horror type of story in the way it might sound, because really it is more of a murder mystery thriller. As Luca tries to solve her sister’s murder, she learns a lot about her small town and about the people she thought she could trust. There were a few little bits and pieces we got about the past deaths that fed into the curse legend that made me believe the story might go a little differently than it did. There were characters that kind of showed up towards the end that played more into the final story than one would expect from how late they appeared. I would maybe have liked more about them earlier in the story, even if they did have parts that fit the puzzle pieces together. Another character that seemed to be more of a major player in the end didn’t quite get what I feel like made sense for her part or her reasoning for things she did. Not a bad story overall, but won’t go on a top YA thriller list for me either.

Review first published on Lisa Loves Literature.