Megan Abbott
Hardcover | Pages: 246 pages Rating: 3.32 | 13005 Users | 1689 Reviews
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| Original Title: | The End of Everything |
| ISBN: | 0316097799 (ISBN13: 9780316097796) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lizzie Hood, Evie Verver, Mr. Verver, Dusty Verver, Dr. Aiken, Detective Thernstrom, Harold Shaw, Pete Shaw, Annie Verver, Kitty Shaw, Ted Hood, Diane Hood |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award Nominee for Best Novel (2012) |
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her next-door neighbor, Evie Verver, are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and field-hockey sticks and between whom, presumably, there are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power as the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.Particularize Regarding Books The End of Everything
| Title | : | The End of Everything |
| Author | : | Megan Abbott |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 246 pages |
| Published | : | July 7th 2011 by Reagan Arthur Books |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Mystery. Young Adult. Thriller. Contemporary |
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Ratings: 3.32 From 13005 Users | 1689 ReviewsRate Regarding Books The End of Everything
(Note: 2 1/2 stars.) Original review published on The Book Smugglers HEREWarning! This review contains spoilers!13-year-olds Lizzie and Evie are next-door neighbours who have been friends their whole lives and are so close, they have no secrets and sometimes they cant even tell their memories apart. Lizzie, the narrator of this story, is fascinated by Evies seemingly perfect family, especially her glamorous older sister Dusty, a beautiful boy-magnet girl and accomplished sportswoman and aboveThe End of Everything features some more messed up teenage girls, just like You Will Know Me. I think these young ladies were even worse. I had fun reading this strange, mysterious, psychologically focused novel.
(Note: 2 1/2 stars.) Original review published on The Book Smugglers HEREWarning! This review contains spoilers!13-year-olds Lizzie and Evie are next-door neighbours who have been friends their whole lives and are so close, they have no secrets and sometimes they cant even tell their memories apart. Lizzie, the narrator of this story, is fascinated by Evies seemingly perfect family, especially her glamorous older sister Dusty, a beautiful boy-magnet girl and accomplished sportswoman and above
This book represents a significant departure for Megan Abbott and is really more a literary novel than it is a crime novel. Two thirteen-year-old girls, Lizzie Hood and Evie Verver, are next-door neigbors and best friends in the suburban world of the 1980s. They share everything, including their deepest secrets. Lizzie's father has recently abandoned the family, and Lizzie idolizes the Verver family. She is especially drawn to Evie's father whom she believes is virtually perfect.The two girls'
beautifully written. very creepy subject -love of young girls to grown up men. but Abbott making it in amazing way, with deep understanding of emotions of girls on the verge of being women. it took me a while to get into it but once in it got hold till the spin in end. great work of writing.
Actual rating 4.5 stars.I read Dare Me by Megan Abbott earlier this month and, since then, have been collecting everything she has even penned in the hopes of binge reading all of them over the coming months. Both Megan Abbott and the dark contemporary genre are quickly proving to be my new favourites.When Lizzie's next door neighbor and lifetime best friend, Evie, is abducted everything Lizzie thought she knew about herself, her friend and life in general is called into question.Despite dealing
Teenage neighbors Lizzie and Evie are thick as thieves. When Evie disappears, Lizzie's world is shaken to its foundations. Who was driving the maroon car Lizzie saw circling the block when Evie was abducted and does he have a connection to Evie's disappearance? And will Evie be found alive?I initally discovered Megan Abbott through her noir works like Queenpin, after hearing people mentioning her in the same breath as Christa Faust. While her latest books haven't been noir, she sure paints a
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