Part of the problem for Hannah is that she is trying to figure out how much of the blame for Lillian's death can be put on her for either not making sure she got help, or even kind of helping her in small ways.Īlong with the stress from this, it's been one of the hottest summers in her town, and there has been a murder of a young girl. Her old crowd of friends are still mostly friends, although one of them is really straying from Lillian's ways, and Hannah is less and less wanting to be around her.
She comes out around people and smiles, but doesn't let them know what is going on inside. Ever since then, Hannah has not been the same. The death was caused by anorexia or at least some form of eating disorder. Her best friend Lillian, who died about 6 months ago, is now haunting her. Really, a little of all of these was in the story.
A ghost story, a serial killer mystery solved by a teen, or even just a plain old teen angst story. I was unsure at first what the actual story was going to be. Lillian is able to conjure the voice of one of the deceased, who supplies the girls with a clue, and soon the unlikely investigative duo is hunting down the criminal-who may or may not be Finny, the hunky delinquent who’s got Hannah feeling “squishy.” The killer-explains-all conclusion is pat, but everything else goes gangbusters, with Yovanoff’s patent-pending blend of weak-kneed ennui and crackling nastiness turning pages faster than ever.But anyway, on to this particular book. This edgy supernatural relationship intensifies with the arrival of the Valentine Killer, a child murderer who dresses up his or her victims with toys and paper valentines. It’s been six months since Hannah’s best friend, Lillian, died from an eating disorder, a fact Hannah can’t forget because Lillian is haunting her, rather languorously, sighing over Hannah’s clothing choices and criticizing her taste in boys. Yovanoff ( The Replacement, 2010, and The Space Between, 2011) returns with another tale barbed around the edges by the profane and the grotesque.
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