But on August 8, everything changes, and Autumn has to rely on all her strength to move on.
In the summer after graduation, Autumn and Finny reconnect and are finally ready to be more than friends.
Growing up, Autumn and Finny were like peas in a pod despite their differences: Autumn is “quirky and odd,” while Finny is “sweet and shy and everyone like him.” But in eighth grade, Autumn and Finny stop being friends due to an unexpected kiss. They drift apart and find new friends, but their friendship keeps asserting itself at parties, shared holiday gatherings and random encounters. The finely drawn characters capture readers’ attention in this debut.Īutumn and Phineas, nicknamed Finny, were born a week apart their mothers are still best friends. Clues about the murderer's identity are available to careful readers, but many will be surprised by the final revelation. Romantic and family conflicts in each girl's storyline, from Caitlin's navigating a relationship with her ex-boyfriend's younger brother to Ava's hiding her stepmother's cruel abuse to Mackenzie's best-friend–turned-rival Claire competing with her for boys' attention, ensure each chapter is chock-full of back-stabbings and barbed words. Shepard, famed for her Pretty Little Liars series, uses the tension inherent in this premise just as deliciously in this sequel as in the original volume. Because the girls have secrets that make them look suspicious-the prank they'd played on a murdered student, their having snuck into their teacher's house just before he was killed-each is reluctant to tell the authorities what she knows. Shortly thereafter, someone began committing murders in exactly the manners named. The follow-up to gossipy thriller The Perfectionists (2014) begins with its protagonists reeling from a teacher's death.Ī prologue helpfully brings new and returning readers up to speed: Mackenzie, Julie, Caitlin, Parker, and Ava started talking in English class about whom they'd like to see killed and how they'd do the deed.
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