What Dies In Summer

Published July 12, 2012 by Canongate Books.

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978-0-85786-278-5
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Biscuit lives with his Gram and his cousin L.A. In Oak Cliff, Texas. He supposedly has inherited the Sight and gets flashes of visions or disturbing dreams. The summer he and L.A. Discover the body of a teenage girl, he realises he has been seeing her at his bedside. The girl had clearly been tortured and the community is on tenterhooks as the summer heat increases.

It takes a long time for anything to really happen. There are quite a lot of characters in Biscuit's extended family to be introduced and I never felt like they were clearly distinguished in my mind. The relationship between the two cousins is awkward and I'm not sure if it's set in a time and place where it would be acceptable for them to be more than friends. Whilst Biscuit does have a girlfriend, Diana, he seems slightly obsessed with L.A. and there are …