Yesterday, Rachel went to sleep listening to Taylor Swift, curled up in her grammy’s quilt, worrying about geometry. Today, she woke up in a ditch, bloodied, bruised, and missing a year of her life.
She doesn’t recognize the person she’s become: she’s popular. She wears nothing but black.
Black to cover the blood.
And she can fight.
Tell no one.
She’s not the only girl to go missing within the last year…but she’s the only girl to come back. She desperately wants to unravel what happened to her, to try and recover the rest of the Lost Girls.
But the more she discovers, the more her memories return. And as much as her new life scares her, it calls to her. Seductively. The good girl gone bad, sex, drugs, and raves, and something darker…something she still craves—the rush of the fight, the thrill of the win—something she can’t resist, that might still get her killed…
The only rule is: There are no rules.
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Rachel wakes up in the woods, bruised and broken and utterly exhausted, and she has no idea how or why. Discovered by police and reunited with her family, she's told she has been missing for two weeks--so why is it that her last memory, of falling asleep to Taylor Swift and stressing about a Geometry test, occured a whole year ago? As she re-acclimates with her home and school, Rachel realises her new life is totally foreign, in ways that go beyond her different hairstyle, new tattoo, and totally black wardrobe; people are intimidated by her, and she feels it may have something to do with her newfound, instinctual desire to fight. Rachel may have lost her memories, but as only one of many girls who keep disappearing, she knows that the key to what happened to all of them lies in the mysterious, secret life she's been leading for the past year, but that world goes deeper and darker than she could even imagine, and one wrong move could put her life on the line--again.
This novel is a Young Adult thriller, and heck if I didn't forget how much I love this genre. The story is so entertaining (thrilling, even--please don't hate me), and the world that Destefano has immersed her characters in is unlike anything I've read before--to describe it all I fear would give away the whole story so I won't go there. Just know that this is an awesome novel that I highly suggest you read if you enjoy unique characters and stories filled with secrets you can't wait to uncover. - Payton (QBD)
Guest, 12/03/2017
