This is a bit of a mindbender of a book.
It starts off feeling like a run of the mill, American teenager coming of age, summer of sexual awakening etc with three friends kicking about the coastal town during the summer holidays – there are love triangles, experiments with alcohol, disillusionment with parents and so on.
Then it gets darker with a serial murder mystery to solve.
Then the characters grow up and it gets a bit freaky and I’m like, wait, what? Is this whole book a fiction written by one of the characters, or is it a fiction about a fiction written by one of the other characters, and why do people keep changing names and genders and what is going on????!!!
This goes on for a while, but then the ending does kind of explain things in a way that made me say, oh, okay, I guess that makes sense after all then.
Overall it was a fun read (I think?).
Sarah Wray Writer 