In the blood

342 pages

English language

Published May 3, 2014 by Touchstone.

ISBN:
978-1-4516-9117-7
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OCLC Number:
830352189

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Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways - to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to …

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Not really my kind of book. A young woman whose father is on death row for murdering her mother goes to a small residential college (which has graduate programs) and begins babysitting a disturbed 11-year-old. Everyone has secrets, and the narrator's roommate appears to have uncovered one of hers before disappearing. Lots of gothic overtones, an unreliable narrator, a bad guy who might as well have it tatooed on his forehead - at one level rather fun and certainly readable but (for me) ultimately unsatisfying, particularly in the way it treats mental illness, troubled children, and gender identity.

Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Missing persons
  • Murder
  • Mental illness

Places

  • New York (State)