the tension kept building and i thought this would be a great alternative to those horrid Goosebumps series that my daughter likes to read. There they meet a redhead also named Kristi and one day decide to ditch camp and drive to a nearby lake to skinny dip. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.

A dizzying riddle: If it hadn't been so pointless, we could have looked into each other's faces for an eternity and seen nothing but ourselves. Suddenly, events take an ominous turn and Kristi starts becoming extremely weird, refusing to eat, sleep, or bathe, and uttering dark forebodings. With Kristi essentially out of commission, Desiree and Kristy find themselves in for the shock of their lives one night out at Lovers Lake.The thing is, I've read quite a few books targeted at adults that broach fewer "taboos" than this book did and they do it with a greater sensibility in their approach. Then the story lurches back to the present where the three girls are all at yhe cheer-leading camp in the woods. Laura Kasischke has a talent for descriptions and can make you feel the heat and sweat on your back, taste the food being cooked on a campfire or hear the cicadas in the forest. On the drive back, the girls attempt to lose the boys, but the narrator's best friend, Desiree, is an insatiable flirt. Although it takes a very willing suspension of reality for readers to believe the events, many of which don't make sense (could two girls and a male lifeguard disappear overnight and not have anyone in the camp notice?

which kind of goes against the point of a twist ending, but given this absolutely crazy thing happened, it seemed kind of lame to just give this reveal and be like, "okay the end. J., Desiree and Kristy discover the truth about what really happened the day they ran into the boys in the station wagon, a truth that will change all of their lives forever.Et le choeur puissant des cigales fait écho à celui des pom-pom girls, tous deux éphémères : la fin du camp, c'est aussi la fin de l'adolescence et de l'innocence. It's more of a story of teenagers, with a little eerie feeling throughout, and some beautiful prose about what it feels like to be a teen. The twist and the ending of this book was fantastic, something I personally haven't come across before or since reading this ten years ago, and I would love to have been able to love the entirety of the story, I'm sad that I just can't. It's poorly written, with godawful sentences such as “The gooey blackened melodrama of roasted marshmallows. From the beginning of the novel, when Kristy is awakened by the cry of a cicada that has lit on her cabin's screen window, to the end, Kasischke ratchets up the suspense.