Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel

Saving Zoe

by Alyson Noël

Meet fifteen-year-old Echo, a typical teen trying to survive high school without being totally traumatized by boy trouble, friend drama, and school issues. As if she didn't have enough on her plate, Echo is also still dealing with the murder of her sister Zoe. Although it's been over a year, Echo is still reeling from tragedy that changed everything. Beautiful and full of life, Zoe was the glue that held her family together, and although the two sisters were as different as night and day, they still had a bond that Echo can't let go of. When Zoe's old boyfriend Marc shows up one day with Zoe's diary, Echo doesn't think there's anything in there she doesn't already know. But as she gives in to curiosity and starts reading, she learns that her sister led a secret life that no one could have guessed - not even Echo.

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2 of 5 stars

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DNF @ 150 pages. It's a whole lot of absolutely nothing. Echo feels more like an unreliable narrator with a big imagination than the clever daughter of two scholars. I've known people and had friends who were scholarly, in high school. They've a maturity and diction that doesn't match that of Echo's, with the vocabulary, philosophy and overall intelligence to back it up.

The movie is better.

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