![]() The narrative’s changing timeline, as each girl remembers events from the past, answers questions and raises intrigue in equal measure their experiences are gritty reflections of teen life. When Tress, bent on truth and revenge, sets up an interrogation of Felicity reminiscent of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado,” the story accelerates evenly with shorter, taut chapters delivering the final shocks. Told in alternating chapters from each girl’s perspective, this thriller starts off as a slow burn with longer chapters establishing their personalities the nature of the closed-minded, predominantly White town and the mysterious disappearance. The one person who may know what happened is Felicity Turnado, who not only used to be best friends with Tress, but was the last one to see her parents alive. Now living with her negligent grandfather at his questionable exotic animal attraction, the high school senior has become a pariah among her classmates. In small-town Amontillado, Tress Montor had a seemingly normal life until her parents disappeared. ![]() Tress would kill to find out why her parents disappeared. ![]()
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