With his help, Pip digs deeper, unveiling unsavory facts about Andie and the real reason Sal’s friends couldn’t provide him with an alibi.
Unable to ignore the gaps in the case, Pip sets out to prove Sal’s innocence, beginning with interviewing his younger brother, Ravi.
Andie’s body was never recovered, and Sal was assumed by most to be guilty of abduction and murder. The original investigation concluded with most of the evidence pointing to Sal, who was found dead in the woods, apparently by suicide. For her senior capstone project, Pip researches the disappearance of former Fairview High student Andie, last seen on April 18, 2014, by her younger sister, Becca. Pip has known and liked Sal since childhood he’d supported her when she was being bullied in middle school. Nicely constructed and planned, with unexpected twists to intrigue and entertain.īottom line? Beware of girls who read books….Įveryone believes that Salil Singh killed his girlfriend, Andrea Bell, five years ago-except Pippa Fitz-Amobi. Populating her gothic narrative with a mostly white cast, Tucholke writes in three alternating voices, presenting an eerie, tangled story with plenty of questions: Who can be trusted? Who-or what-pulls the strings? High on teen drama and with plenty of trauma-mostly emotional, with a little physical thrown in-the book keeps readers wondering.
But Wink knows every story needs a Hero and a Villain and revolves around three essentials: revenge, justice, and love. Dreamy Wink is Leaf’s younger sister and a neighborhood oddball-the girl with the tarot card– and tea leaf–reading mother, a freckled dreamer who maybe reads a little too much. Poppy is in love with Leaf Bell, an older boy who can see “right through the pretty” to the “ugly on the inside.” A self-described bully, Poppy is “built for winning and getting what I wanted and not for trying to be better.” Determined that, if her life is to be one of “desperation, then it would be loud, not quiet,” she is frustrated by Leaf’s indifference. Balancing between possibly paranormal and just plain disturbing, Tucholke walks a fine, spine-chilling line.ĭark-haired, awkward (but soon to be gorgeous) Midnight is in love with Poppy, the beautiful, blonde, high school queen with a cruel streak a mile wide.
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