Six Months Later by Natalie D. Richards
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Genre(s): Young adult, mystery, thriller
Medium: Print
Number of pages: 323
Publish date: October 1st, 2013
Purchase: Amazon Book Depository
When Chloe fell asleep in study hall, it was the middle of May. When she wakes up, snow is on the ground and she can’t remember the last six months of her life.
Before, she’d been a mediocre student. Now, she’s on track for valedictorian and being recruited by Ivy League schools. Before, she never had a chance with super jock Blake. Now he’s her boyfriend. Before, she and Maggie were inseparable. Now her best friend won’t speak to her.
What happened to her? Remembering the truth could be more dangerous than she knows.
Let me just start off by saying that I think unreliable narrators in stories are highly intriguing. We only get to see through the information the author provides, so it certainly creates a whole new level of mystery when the protagonist is not even sure of what’s right and wrong.
We meet Chloe and quickly realize that something has gone horribly wrong. You don’t just forget several months of your life without some impetus. Of course, when she decides to start investigating and poking around, there are people who would rather their secrets stay secret. There is also definitely something strange going on, because it seems that Chloe completely ditched her best friend sometime during the period she can’t remember, but you don’t do something like that without reason. Unfortunately for Chloe, she has no idea what that reason is.
Using her investigative skills, which aren’t bad for a teenager (but still get her in hot water), Chloe begins to unravel the mystery. I can’t say what it is for spoiler reasons, but it is quite a bit more realistic and relevant than I thought the mystery would turn out to be. I could see how she slowly got into it, but once she realized what was happening, decided it was bad and backed out. Then, of course, there’s the fact that there are adults enabling this, which is never good.
All in all, this is a solid book, I enjoyed reading through it. Can’t say it’s my absolute favorite, but Richards’ writing style works well with the narrative and i would be interested to read more of her work.
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