Saturday, October 16, 2010

Book Review - Deception - YA

Deception by Lee Nichols
Published by Bloomsbury
310 pages




I very much enjoyed this book. Emma Vaile is your average high schooler in San Francisco, worried about friends and boys, until her parents disappear on a business trip and don't return. She is betrayed to the police to be living alone by Natalie, whom she thought was a friend, and sent to live with a legal guardian, who mysteriously shows up, to Boston. There she finds out more about herself and how she got there.  She is a ghostkeeper.

This is a mystery with many twists and turns, and no sure individual to trust. I thought Emma was real and likable. She is just traipsing through life, innocent and forlorn. She has no one except her 20-year-old guardian, Bennett, and he is not what he seems at first to be.

This was a true page turner for me, and I was pleased to find out this is going to be a series. The author crafted this quite nicely. You weren't quite hanging at the ending, but there was more story to be told for certain. Can't wait for the next installment

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