![]() ![]() Frankie barely has enough time to get to know her half-brother, Xavier, before he disappears. Plot-wise, the novel is wholly character-driven, leaning hard into the mystery genre. We have enough YA books set in the US as it is. I, as an American, thought this will be an opportunity to experience something NEW, setting-wise. ![]() I mean, on the outset, it does look different from my usual reads: a contemporary coming-of-age novel (or at least, that’s how it’s marketed, but I saw it as a mystery contemporary to me, at least, the labeling is just bizzare), and, most importantly, it’s written by an Australian author. In all honesty, I picked this one up because I thought it’d be DIFFERENT. ![]()
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