Luce took one look at the shuddering light at the base of the cemetery and started racing toward it. She hurtled down past the broken headstones, leaving Penn and Miss Sophia far behind. She didn’t care that the sharp, twisting limbs of the live oak trees scratched her arms and face as she ran, or…

Luce lays around moping in bed until Penn shows up.  Then she ignores Penn until she leaves again. I’m sorry, even with sarcastic quotes, I can’t get over this.  Luce is in a reform school because (supposedly) everyone thinks she killed a guy and just can’t prove it.  THEY BELIEVE SHE IS A MURDERER AND…

Luce stands at a crossroads of the paths that lead to the cemetery and the lake, having been invited to both those places by her respective boys.  Ooo, symbolik. Come on, guys, symbolism only works when you don’t shove it down our throats.  Or, in Luce’s case, stand on it for several hundred words while…

That night, Luce gets ready for a date with Cam.  There is much dithering that I will spare you from so that we can get straight to the main event: he leaves a note for her at the front gate saying that a car will show up and take her to him. NO.   NO.…

Luce starts the chapter by, surprise surprise, obsessing over Daniel during class.  She even writes out a timeline of all their interactions so far.  It’s just as dull in this format as it was reading about it the first time. I don’t like these recap scenes in any book – wastes of space, pay attention…