The Sleepover by Keri Beevis is a novel that splits the story telling between the past and present. The main character is a gal that is struggling to live her life. She is haunted by events that happened in her childhood. She struggles with fears and worry. She tries to avoid he town where the 'bad thing' happened yet he continues to be close to her friends who also lived through the unnamed nightmare. The characters in the book are well defined and unique as you can see how tragedy and trauma affects each of them differently The present day parts of the story has the main character living in fear as unexplained things begin to happen. It coincides with the release of the perpetrator of the crime from their past. . The past segments of the book are shorter and never quite give enough information to know what was so terrible that it traumatized the characters so deeply. Eventually, as the book is in it's final chapters the past event is revealed and as expected there is a resolution to all of the events, even with a twist or two that I actually wasn't expecting.
Admittedly, this is a good read. I kept turning the pages because I wanted to know the root cause of the unexplained happenings. It was a mystery and i wanted to see how it ended. However, through out the book I was bothered about the fact that the terrible thing that had happened years back was not revealed. It was excruciating to deal with only getting small pieces of the story. As I read I kept wondering what could be so horrible to cause such trauma. In my opinion the secrecy about that event detracted from the story. Luckily, the book was well written so that detractor did not affect my overall views and I would recommend the book.
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