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Rating: 2/5
Pages: 336
Started: September 2
Finished: September 3
Summary:
To the outside world, Maude is the perfect child: perfect grades, perfect boyfriend, perfect appearance. But Maude has a secret: she hates her family, and she's going to run away. Her mother is tyrannical and her step-brothers are monsters, so for over a year she's been saving money and buying new identification and researching how to fake her death. She's going to disappear, and then she's going to be able to start over.
And then her cousin-by-marriage, Frankie, discovers her fake ID in her bag. And asks to join Maude's escape. Adding another person to her plan complicates things beyond measure, but Maude doesn't have a choice, does she?
Thoughts:
This was such a mediocre book. I liked the premise of school-smart girl uses her intelligence for evil, but it was simply not well-done. It's a queer book about cousins (by marriage, but still) but it inexplicably feels like it was written by a straight author (although the author has a rainbow in her ig bio). The cousin thing is gross. More than that, the logic of the book doesn't seem to check out. The author needed another copyeditor (I found like four typos) and to do some actual research on the logistics of crime. The pacing was also super weird and illogical, and I kept getting stressed about the characters' chaos-- I spent the whole book waiting for some real, competent badassery, it never really emerged.
I don't necessarily regret reading this book; it went fast and was entertaining. But it was badly done overall and I would not recommend it to anyone else.