April Fools

A group of teens (Belinda, Hildy, and her drunk boyfriend Frank) are coming home from an April Fools’ Day party. Hildy is driving but drunken Frank keeps grabbing the wheel. He starts banging into another car when the car tries to pass them. Then the car vanishes over the cliff and blows up. Belinda runs down to help, but her friends drag her away, and they leave. Belinda is convinced someone was standing at the top of the hill, watching them. For weeks afterwards Belinda is haunted by the car in flames and a face in the window, crying for help. Belinda tutors in her spare time. She is contacted for a job tutoring a teenage boy (Adam) who was recently in an accident. Could this be someone who was in the car crash and survived? He show more sometimes hints that he has seen her before. Adam also has a brother (Noel), who seems friendly and is interested in Belinda. As time goes by, Belinda receives warnings and threats…

This was just an okay read, at first. Belinda was alright, but her best friends (Hildy and Frank) were totally annoying and were lousy “friends”. As the book progressed it got better. I liked Adam and Noel’s butler (Cobbs). He was a very interesting character. I was curious to find out who was threatening Belinda, and I enjoyed the revelations at the end of the book.

An entertaining young-adult mystery by Richie Tankersley Cusick. show less

Reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer. I don't think this is Tankersley's best, but I did enjoy it. The end had a nice twist and I only figured out half of it before the reveal.

It's one of those stories where you think did he or didn't he? Keeps you on the edge of your seat and you cannot put it down. When there are tense and uneasy moments you are tense. It was gripping and is still one of my favourite horror/mystery/thriller books. Even though I know who done it, it's still worth reading again and again for the suspense and dramatic writing style.

Reminiscent of I Know What You Did Last Summer. I don't think this is Tankersley's best, but I did enjoy it. The end had a nice twist and I only figured out half of it before the reveal.