Seventeen-year-old Eliza Loft\u2019s high-school experience in Whitehall\u2014a \u201cPodunk\u201d town in the Adirondack Mountain region of New York\u2014isn\u2019t exactly idyllic. After her mother died of cancer when Eliza was 12 years old, the teen rebelled, and on a drunken night with her two best friends up in the woods, she did some regrettable things. In an inebriated haze, she also witnessed the brutal murder of an older girl from her school district. After vowing with her friends to never share the events of that night with anyone, four years pass, and Eliza becomes estranged from the two other girls, who become popular while she ends up a loner. When each of the three girls finds a photo of the dead girl with a message (\u201cI know what you did\u201d) in their lockers, panic ensues\u2014no one else could possibly know. When one of Eliza\u2019s (now former) best friends turns up dead shortly thereafter, Eliza not only becomes a suspect but also the killer\u2019s next potential target. With her new friend Simon\u2014a hardcore bigfoot enthusiast\u2014accompanying her, she attempts to discover who, or what, is behind the murders. Carlisle\u2019s story is a real page-turner. While the bigfoot element is certainly intriguing, it\u2019s the author\u2019s insightful depiction of the teenage experience\u2014battling self-doubt, dealing with bullying and crushes, finding one\u2019s place in the world\u2014that makes Eliza\u2019s story so emotionally resonant and compelling. Her grief over her mother\u2019s death is particularly powerful: \u201cBut death doesn\u2019t care about what you need. It comes without warning, takes everything from you until all you\u2019re left with are a bunch of broken pieces and no picture to guide you on how to fit them back together.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Seventeen-year-old Eliza Loft\u2019s high-school experience in Whitehall\u2014a \u201cPodunk\u201d town in the Adirondack Mountain region of New York\u2014isn\u2019t exactly idyllic. After her mother died of cancer when Eliza was 12 years old, the teen rebelled, and on a drunken night with her two best friends up in the woods, she did some regrettable things. In an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}