After being aquitted of his girlfriends murder, David is moving to Cambridge to live with his estranged Aunt, Uncle, and 10 yr old cousin Lily. How did his girlfriend die? He acts pretty guilty...
He moves into the 3rd floor apartment where his other cousin, Kathy, died and he realizes that all is not well in this family. Julia and Vic don't speak to each other and when they do they use Lily as a pawn. And then there's Lily... odd, odd Lily. David can tell there's something really wrong with her, but her parents are in denial. She starts breaking into his apartment to constantly to pull pranks/destroy things, and it pushes David over the edge...
Will Vic and Julia ever see that Lily needs help? What really happened to Kathy? What really happened to Emily (the girlfriend)?

My first Audiobook!!! Yay me!!

Anyway...
I found this book addicting even though I knew where the plot was going. The only reaosn I gave it 3 stars is I found some of the details to be unbelievable.

Like: 1. Do you really expect me to believe that he killed a girl with one punch? I mean I guess it's humanly possible, but unlikely.
2. The Kathy thing was a little better but still... someone is going to take a giant sip of ammonia and not know...even with a cold I'm not sold on it.
3. All of sudden 3/4th of the way through the book, David and Lily are connected telepathically??? Wait, what? Yes they talk to each other through the ceiling...yeah I'm not buying that...
4. Ghosts? I don't know about that either...
5. I dont get how David made the leap from basically thinking she's a psychopath to instant forgiveness... what he did and what she did were 2 completely different things. Yes in the end 2 ppl died, but an accidental death or even an involuntary manslaughter is not the same as a murder, and Lily's was at least 2nd degree. I dont get where he's all "my Lily" all of a sudden...

I liked the way it made me feel about David, he was a very well developed character. Also I loved the supermarket card swaps, that was super-cute. The Epilogue made me smile, so at least it ended on a good note :) ( )

David is almost finished with high school, but, he cannot complete his education in the area where he lives with his parents. Previously on trial for the murder of his girlfriend, he was found not guilty. Because of all the constant media attention, his parents make a decision to send him to live with relatives in Cambridge, MA.

While trying to sort through his life and consequences, it becomes increasingly difficult to navigate both his past, and the new home where, in particular, his Aunt, really does not want him in their house. This family also has a lot of garbage to sort through while also suffering from a great deal of grief because of a death/suicide of a teenage daughter.

The new family includes an Aunt who truly does not want him, a nasty, manipulative sociopath, child, and an Uncle who tries to deal with his own family dysfunction and grief while trying to make David comfortable in their home.

David is dealing with two dysfunctional families, the one he left behind, and the one where he was shuffled off, and he must come to grips with his past, while trying to cope with the present. ( )

Narrated by Nick Podehl. This wasn't as suspenseful as I expected (Nancy Werlin can do a taut thriller) but I found the premise of two young killers who understand each other thought-provoking. Who else could empathize with the guilt and pain? Not their schoolmates or parents. A dark, elite club to say the least. ( )

I remember reading this as a summer reading assignment in high school and rereading my thoughts on it have not changed. The circumstances that lead up the to plot seems unlikely. The whole storyline just seemed farfetched. An 11 year old girl killing her sister? I wish I could say that I enjoyed it, but I honestly didn't, not in high school and definitely not now as an adult. ( )

So very predictable. I knew pretty much how it was going to end before I finished the first chapter. There was some awkward wording as well. For instance when speaking of a dresser it was a bedroom dresser (is there any other kind?) and one of the character's put on the lights instead of turning them on. Also, Tara Lipinski is supposed to be an 11 year old girls favorite skater. What? This was written in 2009 and she had been retired for several years before that. I'm not sure an 11 year old is old enough to remember when she ice skated. Some of the slang is dated as well. ( )