Title: Kelly Hill Author: Laura Gibson
Genre: Contemporary, Family Drama, New Adult, Suspense
Synopsis:
Rachel is standing on the brink of a world about to change. Battling a dysfunctional family life and still trying to cover up her involvement in a scandal two years prior, Rachel can’t seem to think straight anymore. She’s just living day to day, trying not to succumb to the stress she covers up with a polite smile. When Kelly Hill saunters back in her life, Rachel feels her carefully crafted lies begin to crack apart around her. Rachel had made a deal with the devil and now Kelly’s presence is causing her to go back on her word, bringing secrets boiling to the surface where they don’t belong. But when a body is discovered on the grounds of Phillips Academy, Rachel knows she can’t keep running from the truth forever.
My Rating:
Favorite Quotes:
“Lacking
punctuality was a character flaw that Rachel couldn’t or wouldn’t accept. Rachel, was a woman of impeccable timing,
whether it be planned or otherwise. She
always arrived at precisely the time she needed to be there and now these
hooligans were making everyone late. She
caught the sigh in her throat again before she had a chance to expel it and
shifted in her seat, waiting. Always
waiting.”
“He
was acting like a sulking little boy and now he wanted her to be just as upset
with him as he was with her, that way they could get the fight out of the way
and over with. It was a vicious
dangerous, cycle the entire family lived in.
They picked at one another to cause reactions and then delivered
tremendous blows once there was any sort of conflict.”
“Rachel’s
lecture mode was like feeling your brain slowly seep out of your ears, it was
painful and it could bore to absolute death.”
“How
do you tell a person that you loved them and because of that, you could hold
onto them? Was that too cliché? Was saying the words too teenage drama chic?”
My Review:
I
love how this author writes. Her style
is much like the main character, precise, crisp, exacting, relevant, sharp, and
obsessive. Her characters are well
described and inhabited, I felt I knew them without knowing them. The book slides back and forth in the time
line between their present and 2 or 3 years prior when memories or significant
incidents occurred. I soon noticed that there
is something terribly wrong, besides her odd personality, but you won’t find
out what that is until near the end of the story. Actually there are several things that are
terribly wrong… which initially frustrated me, but I decided after the third
chapter that I had to get a grip and just let it evolve. By then I began to enjoy unraveling the threads
and finding the mystery. I had a hard time determining the genre for
this story as it seems to be a hybrid or chameleon, and has fingers into
several pies. This is not a love story
but I liked it anyway – gasp! Yeah – it was
that good! And there was no sex at all –
other than a few rather chaste kisses and some hand holding. Beside a few expletives – just a few - this
book could even be recommended to those of the Sunday School set that enjoy
suspense and family drama.
Empress DJ
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