Lauren Julia and Claire Rose haven't had an easy life.
An absentee father.
A drug-addicted mother.
Growing up in a small, dead-end town in the middle of nowhere, North Dakota, in the poorest part of town, Meth Row, Lauren's done her best to give her younger sister the best life she could. Working jobs she wasn't proud of, pushing herself in school, harder than she probably should have.
But it doesn't matter, as long as she can give Claire a good life.
But when Claire is found assaulted and murdered behind a gas station, Lauren snaps. Consumed by revenge for her sister's death, and the police moving to slow, she'll get revenge on her own.
Along with her closest friend, Alisa Kolesnyk, they're off on a road trip to hunt down the person who ruined their lives, in different ways. Stopping at the sixteen places Claire wanted to visit most, to burn one thing that belonged to her as a sign of release, to set Claire free.
As they work their way to Austin, Texas, each step propels them further to the collision course that is Claire's murderer.
Told over the course of a week, a story of revenge, death, and getting even, no one is safe. Not even themselves.
All's fair in love and babysitting.
• • •
Shailene Avery is hated by one person, and one person only: Brayden Ferguson Fields. Saturated in sarcasm and edgy teenage angst, Brayden is the one person Shailene cannot understand, like, or even pretend to get along with. And no matter how nice she is to him at their frequent neighbourly get-togethers, or as they stand awkwardly at the bus stop in the mornings, or during the countless nights of having to babysit their younger siblings together ("because double date night" is the lacklustre reason given by her parents), she still cannot get through to him. Because he hates her. And that is that.
Brayden Fields has 99 problems, and his pain-in-the-ass neighbour is one of them. Shailene Rose Avery is loved by everyone for reasons Brayden can't even try to understand. Her incessant chattering and fruitless attempts at friendship give him a migraine, and he only ever talks to her when he absolutely has to. Honestly, if he had to choose between being poisoned by anthrax or spending an entire day with her - well, let's just say he'd have a hard time deciding.
They avoid each other as much as possible, because - let's be honest - it's better that way. But what happens when they don't get a say? What happens when fate decides to throw them together over and over again? What happens when they learn there's more to a book than just the cover?
| does this have a plot??? who even knows. also idk why it says completed April 2020, I finished this book in 2017 lol |
highest rank - #107 babysit #75 thirdperson