Linda S. (Linda) reviewed What You Left Behind (DI Lorraine Fisher, Bk 2) on + 770 more book reviews
Intense, dark, shocking .... the book is all these, and more. It touches upon something we've all seen in the news.
Teenage-suicides - mostly boys - were committed in this village some months ago. The people of the community are still trying to heal and find a way to go on.
DI Lorraine Fisher is on vacation and visits her sister and her teenage son. While there, a boy's body is found .. along with a suicide note. And then a second young man is found. Lorraine's nephew has been acting strange ... secretive .. scared.
Were these actual suicides? Lorraine means to find out before her nephew is next to be found.
With the onset of the internet, bullying has become a huge part of young peoples' lives. Seems so easy to say things 'anonymously' that you might never do otherwise. The book encompasses this and much more. Made me realize that I wouldn't go back to my teen years for any amount of money.
WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND is well-written. The feelings in the parents of their lost sons was tangible .. the grief at times almost overwhelming. And suicides don't affect only family members... whole communities can grieve as well. But what happens when someone from 'outside' claims these were not suicides?
My thanks to NetGalley, the author, and Crown Publishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.
Teenage-suicides - mostly boys - were committed in this village some months ago. The people of the community are still trying to heal and find a way to go on.
DI Lorraine Fisher is on vacation and visits her sister and her teenage son. While there, a boy's body is found .. along with a suicide note. And then a second young man is found. Lorraine's nephew has been acting strange ... secretive .. scared.
Were these actual suicides? Lorraine means to find out before her nephew is next to be found.
With the onset of the internet, bullying has become a huge part of young peoples' lives. Seems so easy to say things 'anonymously' that you might never do otherwise. The book encompasses this and much more. Made me realize that I wouldn't go back to my teen years for any amount of money.
WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND is well-written. The feelings in the parents of their lost sons was tangible .. the grief at times almost overwhelming. And suicides don't affect only family members... whole communities can grieve as well. But what happens when someone from 'outside' claims these were not suicides?
My thanks to NetGalley, the author, and Crown Publishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest opinion.
