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I am Friday Brown. I buried my mother. My grandfather buried a swimming pool. A boy who can’t speak has adopted me. A girl kissed me. I broke and entered. Now I’m fantasizing about a guy who’s a victim of crime and I am the criminal. I’m going nowhere and every minute I’m not moving, I’m being tail-gated by a curse that may or may not be real. They call me Friday. It has been foretold that on a Saturday I will drown… Friday, 17, flees memories of her mother, granddad, and the family curse. She joins Silence in a street gang led by beautiful charismatic Arden, and escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday faces the ghosts of her past. Sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started, and before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you never meant to be.
Publication Year: 2013
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The Brown women are cursed: each one, for many years, has died in an accident related to water. Friday Brown and her mother Vivienne live on the road, moving from town to town and sometimes ending up homeless. Friday has only known this lifestyle, so when her mother becomes ill and moves them in with her grandfather, Friday knows she will not stay if her mother dies.
Soon, Friday finds herself on her own, but after a freak accident at the railway station, Friday meets a kindred soul in a boy named Silence. He takes her back to an abandoned home where other homeless teens are living and she is quickly enfolded in a new lifestyle and way of living. These strangers soon become her family, but there is always the feeling that something terrible is right around the corner.
Wakefield has created a creepy and interesting story. Readers will be wondering if the Brown curse is going to catch up with Friday, or if she will finally break it. The relationships that Wakefield develops between the characters are interesting, alarming, and intriguing all at the same time. While it is an intriguing concept, the book does not have a wide appeal for all teens or the ability to capture ones full attention the whole way through.
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