What if you forgot your identity and had to rely on other people to tell you who you were?
And what if to discover your true self, you first had to unravel a mystery so big and terrifying you were not sure you'd survive solving it?
When Marshall and Elyse wake up in each other's arms with zero memory of how they got there or who they are, it's the start of a long journey through their separate pasts and shared future.
Terrified by their amnesia, the two make a pact to work together to find the answers that could jog their missing memories. As they piece together clues, they discover they're in the idyllic mountain resort town of Summer Falls, where everyone seems mysteriously happy, but as Marshall and Elyse quickly learn, darkness lurks beneath the town's perfect facade. Not only is the town haunted by sinister ghosts, but none of its living inhabitants retain bad memories of anything—not the death of Marshall’s mom, not the hidden shame in Elyse's family, not even the day-to-day anguish of high school.
Lonely in this world of happy zombies, Marsh and Elyse fall into an intense relationship...but the secrets they uncover could be the death of this growing love—and the death of everyone, and everything, they love in Summer Falls.
My Review:
This was a really fantastic book! Creepy, but so good to read! Come on, having your memories gone, and having that done in such a creepy town as Summer Falls, yeah, that's not the ideal situation! But it was just so good to read!
I want to talk about that cover. It's really gorgeous, I love those covers, and the whole thing conveys what the book is, beautiful, but creepy, with something going on just below the surface, that you'll see if you look close enough. Everybody has hidden depths, even if those depths are shallow!
Just the idea of it, yeah, that's really unique, and how it played out was really awesome! I just enjoyed reading it so much, all the little bits and pieces as they put them together, and as things started to make sense, well, they just got creepier!
How everything came together, that was just so great! It was really fitting for the book, all the more creepy and not great for the characters, but they persevered, and won out in the end, after everything that they faced, and that was really great!
This was a really fantastic book, I enjoyed so much!
Author: Phoebe Kitanidis
Read: August 30th, 2012
Source: Library
Reason Why: Very pretty cover, sounded really interesting, and it's a DAC book, WTC book and a LLFL Book!
Publisher: Balzer + Bray
Published: April 17th 2012
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