So it's pretty clear by now that I'm a big fan of books about weirdo teenagers. Four of the books I've read so far this year have already been about teenagers or children doing bad things, either to themselves or to other people. I'm not sure why I keep getting drawn towards these novels; it must be some weird gene in me.
Now I've actually met Anne Cassidy through my job and so I've read a few of her books before. And her stuff can generally be typified by 'teenagers do something bad, to themselves or others'. Looking for JJ is about the rehabilitation of a child killer, whilst Just Jealous, if I remember rightly, involves a girl murdering someone by accident cause she's got some jealousy complex over her boyfriend. Her stuff is therefore a pretty safe choice of novel if what you're wanting is teenagers behaving badly. Which obviously I can never get enough of...
The jist of this story is that a group of teenagers witness a boy trying to kill himself and rescue him, only to sort of befriend him - and then wind up accidentally killing him. This secret is kept for a couple of years and then it all comes out. I make no bones about spoiling this plotline as it pretty blindingly obvious from the blurb and the entire set-up of the novel.
I'd had a massive issue with reading until reading this novel, having started and given up on A Clash of Kings, TimeRiders and something else I can't even remember right now. So this broke my dry spell so that's a good thing. The topic obviously appealed to me and it passed the time, but it's not a hugely memorable novel; already I'm forgetting things that happened in it. I think I should probably call time on Cassidy's novels now because I've never been blown away.
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