Book Synopsis:
Maria Weston wants to be friends. But Maria Weston is dead. Isn't she?
1989. When Louise first notices the new girl who has mysteriously transferred late into their senior year, Maria seems to be everything the girls Louise hangs out with aren't. Authentic. Funny. Brash. Within just a few days, Maria and Louise are on their way to becoming fast friends.
2016. Louise receives a heart-stopping email: Maria Weston wants to be friends on Facebook. Long-buried memories quickly rise to the surface: those first days of their budding friendship; cruel decisions made and dark secrets kept; the night that would change all their lives forever.
Louise has always known that if the truth ever came out, she could stand to lose everything. Her job. Her son. Her freedom. Maria's sudden reappearance threatens it all, and forces Louise to reconnect with everyone she'd severed ties with to escape the past. But as she tries to piece together exactly what happened that night, Louise discovers there's more to the story than she ever knew. To keep her secret, Louise must first uncover the whole truth, before what's known to Maria--or whoever's pretending to be her--is known to all.
Book Review:
We begin with Louise got her Facebook notification update: "Maria Weston wants to be friends." but wait... The same Maria Weston whom Louise knew was dead when they were in high school. So who is this person claims to be Maria? Or, she still alive after all this time?
The timeline of this book is back and forth with past tense events at 1989 and present time event (2016). The thing is, there was big secret that Louise had buried since the event of Maria's death. And now, she was threatened that there's someone out there knows her sin twenty-seven years ago.
I don't like the old Louise, the high school Louis. But oh well, how can we judge someone when they are just teenager? For the teenager, high school's social life is the most important thing in the world. They still don't know their glorious social reputation don't really matter when they left to enter the real world. We did a lot of mistakes, consciously or not, at the high school phase. The differentiate is how deep are we willing to go down and responsible for it?
The author didn't waste her time to introduce the main issue with her reader. I have hooked right away when I was starting to read it. The pace was on the right pace. The atmosphere was so vivid. I love Louise, even though there are some of her actions at the present time that I couldn't stand to agree with. But well, she's a single mother now and I think every mother wants to protect her child at whatever cost. The revelation at the end is stunned me, and I love how the author left me hanging by the end of this Louise story.
It's more like 4.5 stars for me.
