Oh my god. I've been putting off reading this for a while, thinking it might be a little twee. I've had to re-read twilight to get my head around it.
It's about these two girls who're groomed by their teacher when they're 15. As the book goes on the reminisce about all the awful things he made them do, or the awful things he did to them. It's set 20 years in the future, because there was one night where something went wrong and he ended up dead. Only one of the girls was found guilty, so it's set at the time for her release.
It's a little hard to read, she's not graphic, but she paints this picture of innocence throughout so the juxtaposition of what happened to them and the way they were is that much harder.
However ... the ending jarred for me. I mean, the character I thought had killed him did, but the final chapter, the 'what really happened' chapter, was in first person, in the teacher's voice. Which is fair enough, but he talks the same throughout and after the murder. Something doesn't work for me. Third person would've been better, because although the writer obviously did her research on victims, she hasn't got into his mind enough, not really. If the end had been in third person, she wouldn't have had to worry about it, it would've left a mystery more, you know?
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