Nearly Gone (Nearly Gone, #1)
Elle Cosimano
Keeping secrets is second nature to Nearly Boswell. Living in a trailer park outside Washington, DC, with a mom who works as an exotic dancer, she knows better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates. Only her best friends know about her obsession with the personal ads, and Nearly hasn't told anyone about the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's skin. Then a serial killer goes on a murder spree and starts attacking students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper. Nearly might be the one person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it out soon - she'll be next. Big, dark, scary, and brilliantly plotted, Nearly Gone will leave you guessing until the very end.
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I didn't know what to expect when I started this book, but it wasn't this.
Nearly Boswell is a poor and smart girl fighting for her one shot to get out of the hell hole that has become after her dad left. There is a scholarship waiting at the end of the tunnel, only she's not the only one needing it. Nor is she the only one smart, dedicated or desperate enough to get it.
She puts up barriers because she's afraid feeling other people's disappointment and anger, but facing murder and threats from a stranger out to get her, her only way to solve the mystery is letting those barriers down and face the reality of her life and herself.
It was slow at first and I was really confused about where the story was heading, hence a lower score but otherwise it was really good. It's similar to Pretty Little Liars with a stranger leaving clues for us and Nearly to solve before the time is up and being framed for all. But we don't have the awesome friends, we have nearly no one and nothing to go on. Spoiler
I had my own theories but I knew it was linked to her father in some way. First I thought it would be Anh since she had a clear motive to scare Nearly to make her lose sight of the scholarship, then I suspected Jeremy because yet again he had an emotional motive to seek vengeance on Nearly for rejecting him. My third theory was someone killing of the children of the gang but no... it was TJ the crybaby. Talk about really blaming someone else, Nearly did not have contact with her father and her mother was a stripper so they could barely live in a trailer park but they weren't suffering enough? Nooo, we have to kill multiple innocent people to make a point and framing Nearly for it? You should have framed her for a murder and be over with!
I felt that this book could have been a stand alone so I'm a bit hesitant to pick up the second one, it gets too dragged out if it's another murder escapade and maybe a bit out of the blue if it's nothing but a story about a girl and a boy's relationship.
" I wasn't nearly . I was enough."
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