Don't Look Behind You (1989)

This is a book that gets you hook in many ways, I think that the feeling and reactions of each character towards their situations are real and true. The reactions are believable and each character has different reasons for the reader to get hooked by them.
Its a story of suspense, however, I loved the way the author gave little parts of romance and love in the story of April and Steve and the whole situation of teenage love.
The situation they live causes the reader to guess about every decision they are about to take and finally they perform.
The first chapters and last ones, made me feel the desperation and relief they have may felt. I liked the end a lot, the metaphor she uses about the prism is really significant. And the boy she meets at the end, gives you a feeling of happiness after all they suffered. ( )

Don't Look Behind You by Lois Duncan (1990): April Corrigan’s life is turned upside down when her family is taken into the Witness Security Program. As she struggles to hold on to her old identity, will she wake up to the danger that stalks her?

This story is told in the first-person, so while the reader sees everything that April sees, he or she may also realize the consequences of her actions before April does, or pick up on foreshadowing (like Jim’s arthritic moments). But ultimately the reader is as in the dark as April, which is the main source of this novel’s suspense. The plot felt more important than making the characters real, although Duncan does try to make them more than one-dimensional. Overall what haunted me were not the black eyes of the killer (a librarian told me those eyes still haunted her to this day), but the bleakness of April’s family’s situation, and the hold that Max had held over her father only to abandon him completely.

This is a suspensful thriller about 17-year-old teenager named April Corrigan. April's comfortable life is turned upside down when her family has to enter witness protection and move to Florida from their home in Norwood, VA in order to protect the family. April is unhappy that she has had to leave behind everything she cares about in Norwood, VA. She stubbornly insists on communicating with her boyfriend back home and behaving in ways endagers her safety.
This is a great suspensful thriller for teens who enjoy reading fiction with characters they can easily relate to and sympathize with. Teens can learn a lot from April's irresponsible behavior and lack of awareness. ( )

Don't look Behind You is a suspenseful thriller by Lois Duncan. It's about a girl by the name of April Corrigan who used to live the perfect life in high school. Until her father who was testifing against a company gets shot at and his family is treatended. April's life is turned upside down when she has to move all the way to Florida with a new name of Valarie Weber. But she isn't really safe because the person that's been tracking her finds where she lives. ( )

The 17 year old protagonist of this novel has been moved with her family by the witness protection program because her dad is basically a moron. She's not terribly bright herself, as she makes several obvious mistakes that lead the people searching for them right to their location. A juvenile or young adult reader may be more entertained by the story, but I was mostly just calling her an idiot in my head the whole time.
I have read other books by this author before and enjoyed them. I was excited to read this book. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. Duncan's work is better when it has a tinge of the supernatural. ( )