The one-year anniversary of the death of my boyfriend was approaching and the events of that Monday afternoon were coming back to me, playing in my head like a movie (p 13).
Isabel is still dealing with the accidental death of her boyfriend, Gabriel, when she meets Vanessa, the new girl at school. Vanessa works at a contemporary art museum downtown where Carlos was recently hired as a guard. Through Vanessa, Carlos and Isabel meet… but will Vanessa be their undoing?
Told in alternating perspectives (Carlos and Isabel), this book is a rather hum drum story, touching on a variety of heavy topics like teen pregnancy, dating, cheating, drinking, death and grief. With the exception of grief, none were dealt with in much deapth.
There is a surprising twist in the late middle of the book that propeled me to the finish, but I probably wouldn’t have read this if I wasn’t assigned it as a Garden State Teen Book Award reader. Just not my type of read. However, I think it will stike a chord with a large number of (average or below-average reader) teens.
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