The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel||Review

The Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel

Pages: 288
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 9781101906668 

 After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran fast and far away.

Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
 
Thriller books have been one of my favorites for quite a while now. Sadly, I do not get around reading them as often as I would like to. But now, after reading The Roanoke Girls, I think maybe it is even better this way, because if other thrillers are just as good as this one I would not know what to do with myself.
It is been a while since I have read a book which affected me so much. Usually, these kind of stories are intersting to read, but they do not leave anything valuable in my mind. However, this book is absolutely different and it is hard to understand why. Maybe it is just because I feel very related to teenage Lane at some aspects.

From the very beginning I felt that this story is going to be exceptional and it deffinitely has to do a lot with writing style of Amy Engel. She made me believe in every single word. And also when one of the girls, at the end of the first chapter, said "Roanoke girls never last long around here...In the end, we either run or we die" I knew that this story is going to be a huge adventure.

The book is written in two different time perspectives, in some chapters events are happening while Lane and Allegra are still teenage girls, and in others events are happening eleven years later. In my opinion, it really benefited this story because it helped to understand how characters were feeling or why did they do certain things. The story itself revolves around several topics including relationships within dysfunctional families, escaping, or at least making peace with the past. I do not want to talk about a plot, because, in my opinion, it is better to read this book without knowing a lot about it and to discover all secrets by yourself.
 
Even though the book was extremely gripping but I almost feel bad for enjoying it as much as I did, because some of the things which occurs in the book in real life would be absolutely sickening. But they are excactly what made this book so intriguing.

I am glad I have discovered Amy Engel, because this book kept me on the edge of my seat and now I am looking forward to reading her other works.  Deffinitely recommend The Roanoke Girls to every thriller fan.
 
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.



 
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