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Average rating3.5
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can't quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers? When Lana's closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways - to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn't jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: someone else knows about Lana's lies. And he's dying to tell.
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If you're looking for a very obvious mystery that, in its ignorance of mental illness, wildly stigmatizes whole groups of people, look no further. I cannot believe how frequently psychosis is conflated with psychopathy in this dumb book. How misinformed and dangerous.
Some veryyyyyy tough gender stuff in here as well — seems like it was written in 1980 and not 2014.
Lastly, whenever an author describes their protagonist as brilliant but does not themselves have the intelligence/skill to portray it, and you're left with a bog standard character who supposedly has a turbo-genius IQ....it's embarrassing.
Lana has a past that doesn't want to be discovered. When she takes a job babysiting and her friend Beck disappears, a twisted game of treasure hunt is unravelling pieces of her past and is connected to the disappearance of her friend.
Twisted, suspensful. Thsi book keeps you guessing every chapter!
Series
18 primary books28 released booksThe Hollows is a 25-book series with 17 primary works first released in 2004 with contributions by Kim Harrison, Vanessa Lamatsch, and 14 others.