This book doesn't come out until March 2010, but should be met with great anticipation. Violet Ambrose has always been able to detect the echo of animals that have been killed, birds, mice, etc until when she's eight years old and walking in the woods behind her family home with her father she discovers the body of a young girl. Now she's sixteen and a junior in highs school. She's discovering she's falling for her best friend Jay, who she's knows for most of her life. All of a sudden there's something different about him and she notices he's turned from a gawky boy into a young man. But she isn't the only one who's noticed.
Jay has become quite popular with the girl and when another friend asks Violet to the homecoming dance, Jay takes it badly and decides to ask Lissie, the most popular girl in school. This puts a wedge in their friendship until Violet starts finding dead girls again.
Jay becomes very protective of Violet. They realize they are meant to be together after Violet risks everything to find the serial killer murdering young girls in her Maryland town and surrounding areas. When they think everything is okay, Violet realizes someone is following her and she has to figure out who it is before he kills her.
The teenage crush, not knowing if the other person likes you, dealing with friends who know you better than you know yourself, is all in this book. Along with a healthy dose of tension from the hidden serial killer, who we don't realize is someone we think we should be able to trust. I like that some of the chapters alternate with the musing of the serial killer. Some times he's very close to our heroin and even she, with her ability to sense dead things along with the taint they leave behind on the person who's done the killing, can't sense everything.
Lot's of fun teen moments as well as the anticipation of not knowing what is going to happen next. If you liked Prom Night, the film, you will like this book.
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