“Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.”
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
As it weaves between Lane’s first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart.
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran…fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
As it weaves between Lane’s first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart.
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LeahBookishObsession
(Grade: A+) Format-Audiobook --What a versatile storyteller Amy Engel has turned out to be. I've also read her YA Duology; The Book of Ivy. This is nothing like that…I would have to say it's not YA, either. Small town seediness at it's most seedy. A sick and twisted affair to be sure…and yet, so addicting. I could not stop listening, even though I knew where it was headed. beautifully and hauntingly written...but so f*cked up! Warning: It will, at least partially, if not wholly...wreck you.
(Grade: A+) Format-Audiobook --What a versatile storyteller Amy Engel has turned out to be. I've also read her YA Duology; The Book of Ivy. This is nothing like that…I would have to say it's not YA, either. Small town seediness at it's most seedy. A sick and twisted affair to be sure…and yet, so addicting. I could not stop listening, even though I knew where it was headed. beautifully and hauntingly written...but so f*cked up! Warning: It will, at least partially, if not wholly...wreck you.(Rated on Apr 29, 2017)
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Bug
(Grade: C) This book was not for me. A rather depressing twisted tale, where the clues from the author felt obvious - several times I found myself exclaiming "get to the point!".
(Grade: C) This book was not for me. A rather depressing twisted tale, where the clues from the author felt obvious - several times I found myself exclaiming "get to the point!".(Rated on Oct 15, 2017)
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HeleneL
(Grade: B) There is a twisted nature to this book, not suited for everyone. The characters are not all that well fleshed out, but I enjoyed the book anyways.
(Grade: B) There is a twisted nature to this book, not suited for everyone. The characters are not all that well fleshed out, but I enjoyed the book anyways.(Rated on Jan 25, 2018)