The bad: Way too short, or too slight even for its short page length. Characters aren't particularly complex; Nyetta is alternately too precocious and too much of a child, and Eve's trauma as a youth was glossed over. Lark is annoyingly moody as a ghost and not, and Ian seems to exist in the story s...
A dark, distinctive, haunting work of magical realism.
When sixteen-year-old Lark Austin is kidnapped from her Virginia hometown and left to die in a snowy forest, she leaves behind two friends who are stunned by the loss. As Lark's former best friend, Eve can't shake the guilt that this tragedy was somehow her fault. Meanwhile, Nyetta is haunted each n...