Find Me (Find Me, #1)

by Romily Bernard

Meh. This book was thoroughly average for me. The writing was good, but I felt like the story was stretched pretty thin to make a full length novel. I think it would have worked much better as a novella. As it is, there are quite a lot of sluggish passages, and the mystery overall is very slow moving. I did like Wick's voice, though she struck me as a more bitter and less resourceful Veronica Mars with decidedly less humor.

If you read this year's darkly humorous NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE YOU by Kathleen Hale, another YA mystery, expect to find a very similar plot with the protagonist trying to solve the mystery surrounding a friend's death via her diary and discovering she didn't know her friend very well in the process. Even though the tones of these two books is very different, my enjoyment ranks about the same--although for different reasons.

The romance had potential and promises to become better in the future, the mystery was decent although the ending was kind of a let down, and the hacker angle was different, but I don't think I'll be coming back. It just wasn't very compelling.