I grabbed this book at random off the library shelf last week and was hooked very quickly so I took it home and finished it off. The story is narrated by 14-year-old Lucy. The story begins in a car, with Lucy, her older brother, Jamie, and Jamie's best friend Kit, travelling across the New Mexico desert. As night approaches, a storm arrives suddenly and in the poor driving conditions the car hits something. Assuming they have hit a coyote, they go back to investigate, only to find the body of a young woman lying beside the road. She is dead.
This is a book about how a single moment can change your life. After the accident, the characters and the relationships between them are all thrown into turmoil. The dead girl has no identification on her and Lucy becomes obsessed with discovering who she was. This leads her to make some dangerous decisions and choices. Meanwhile, she develops romantic feelings for Kit, the annoying best friend of her older brother. (Personally, I thought Kit was a real creep and can't see the attraction!) Although it gets off to a start quickly, the book becomes a bit bogged down in the relationships between Lucy and Kit, and between Jamie and the alluring "older woman", Beth, who takes them in after the accident.
If you enjoy a fast-paced story, this probably isn't it, but if you don't mind a story about characters facing a challenging situation and the way this affects their relationships you might enjoy it. I would give it a 6/7 out of 10.
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