When Jo-Lynn Kirby ‘s former best friend-pretty, nice Maddie Price- comes to her claiming to be in trouble, Jo assumes it’s some kind of joke. After all, Jo has been an outcast ever since her nude photos were leaked-and since everyone decided she deserved it. There’s no way Maddie would actually come to her for help.
But then Maddie is gone.
Everyone is quick to write off Maddie as a runaway, but Jo can’t shake the feeling there’s more to the story. To find out the truth, Jo needs to get back in with the people who left her behind-and the only way back in is through Hudson Harper-Moore. An old fling of Jo’s with his own reasons for wanting to find Maddie, Hudson hatches a fake dating scheme to get Jo back into their clique. But being back on the inside means Jo must confront everything she’d rather forget: the boys who betrayed her, the whispers that she had it coming, and the secrets that tore her and Maddie apart. As Jo digs deeper into Maddie’s disappearance, she’s left to wonder who she’s really searching for: Maddie or the girl she used to be.
💁🏼♀️This story was so much more than I expected. I thought I was just going into a high school mystery. I did not expect the emotional dipiction of how girls are treated when they’ve experienced trauma. It was so bang on that I found myself nodding through a lot of the story.
💁🏼♀️The narrator for this story was the perfect voice for Jo.
💁🏼♀️The characters were well flushed out and acted exactly how high schoolers would act. Jo-lynn was witty, likable, and real! Maddie was an annoying overachiver in the most believable, non highschool musical sort of way. Hudson was the perfect love interest for this story. He seriously could not have been written any better. The fake dating aspects were very well done, and the sleuthing was on point!
💁🏼♀️The story did drag a bit around the end, which is the only reason I can’t give it 5 stars, but it did pick back up with a force I wasn’t expecting!
Thanks to @netgalley and @bloomsburypublishing for allowing me to listen to this audio ARC!
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