All Unquiet Things by Anna Jarzab

Synopsis:
Carly: She was sweet. Smart. Self-destructive. She knew the secrets of Brighton Day School’s most privileged students. Secrets that got her killed.

Neily: Dumped by Carly for a notorious bad boy, Neily didn’t answer the phone call she made before she died. If he had, maybe he could have helped her. Now he can’t get the image of her lifeless body out of his mind.

Audrey: She’s the reason Carly got tangled up with Brighton’s fast crowd in the first place, and now she regrets it—especially since she’s convinced the police have put the wrong person in jail. Audrey thinks the murderer is someone at Brighton, and she wants Neily to help her find out who it is.

As reluctant allies Neily and Audrey dig into their shared past with Carly, her involvement with Brighton’s dark goings-on comes to light. But figuring out how Carly and her killer fit into the twisted drama will force Audrey and Neily to face hard truths about themselves and the girl they couldn’t save.

My Review:
This book was different from the types of stories I usually go for which was a nice change. It was not what I expected but it drew me in because the characters were so believable and the conversations among them seemed so real. The author did a great job with the combination of mixing the narration between Neily and Audrey because the author made Neily and Audrey’s parts distinctive and I never got confused about reading a guy’s voice or girl’s voice which was impressive. Many of the reactions and feelings of the characters were raw and real which left the characters exposed really making you feel their emotions personally.

While the main drive of the story was about the death of a girl it involved much more. It was also about the people who loved her and how death can change us. Even after you leave this earth you can never disappear from the memory of the people you knew and the characters made that apparent. The story itself kept a steady pace until the end which was the climax and it worked perfectly with the way the mystery of the murder unfolded. The best part was I did not figure out who the murderer was until the characters discovered it too which left me guessing the entire time.