The final faceoff strains believability and the conclusion is a tad neat, but readers will find themselves thinking about Cat's complicated rural community long after the mystery has been solved. These details and the thick mystery that Cat unfurls will keep readers engaged%E2%80%94and suspecting several characters, as Cat does. Myracle (Bliss) paints the desperate poverty and bitter divisions within Cat's mountain community well, with memorable details like a friend coloring the duct tape patches on her couch to match the fabric or a meth cooker's bathtub filled with funnels and coffee filters. Even so, when a horrific and possible hate crime leaves openly gay Patrick comatose, she decides to "look straight into the ugliness and find out who hurt him." She grows suspicious of her brother's friends, "the redneck posse," who were with Patrick the night of his attack%E2%80%94especially as she learns they are keeping dangerous secrets, including dealing and using meth. She lives with her family in Fort Collins, Colorado. Cat has been distant from childhood best friend Patrick for three years (she began to "ignore the whole world" after an older friend of her brother's molested her). Lauren Myracle is the author of many popular books for teens and tweens, including the Upside-Down Magic series, The Wishing Day trilogy, the NYT best-selling Winnie Years series, and many oh-so-many more).
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