My tentative goal for October is to read only thrillers/murder mysteries/dark romances/paranormals/etc (unless my mental health kicks up a fight about it). Here's Hannah Jayne's "The Girl in the Headlines."
["The headlines say she killed her family. The truth? She doesn't remember.
Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy parents. But when she wakes up in a motel room the next morning, unable to remember what happened the previous night and covered in blood, Andi is a fugitive.
According to the news, Andi's parents were brutally attacked in the middle of the night. Her father is dead, her mother is in a coma, her little brother Josh is missing--and Andi is the prime suspect. Terrified and on the run from the police, Andi teams up with Nate, the sympathetic boy working the motel's front desk, to find the real murderer. But while the police are getting further from the killer, the killer is getting closer to Andi--closer than she could ever have imagined."]
This book was hard to put down from the very beginning. There was no rambling or story setting or exposition whatsoever. We got right down to business from page one (Andi waking up in the hotel with no memory and blood everywhere).
The first 50% happened in maybe two days, so timeline wise, it was a little slow. But a lot happened in that short amount of time.
This book also explored the toxicity of the media and how quickly people are willing to jump on the media's bandwagon (a form of group-think). It was interesting and distressing watching every single person in Andi's life turn against her for the cameras. I liked how the story ended, but I'm also interested to know how people treated her/them after the truth came out.
Another spooky thriller/mystery recommend.
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