Cady comes from a life of privilege. Her family owns an island off the coast of Massachusetts. She and her cousins have spent every summer of their lives on the island. Cady's mom Penny fights constantly with her two sisters, Bess, and Carrie, over who has the nicest house on the island, and all three sisters drink too much, way too often. This causes the three older cousins, Cady, Johnny, and Mirren, to try to create their own little oasis of sanity by simply sticking together. They're joined by Gat, the son of Carrie's boyfriend, but he's Indian, and he's not wealthy, and this causes issues, especially when Cady begins to show a romantic interest in him.
At some point during the summer they were all 15, there was an accident, and Cady was injured. She doesn't return to the island until summer 17. No one will talk to her about what happened, and her memory is sketchy. As Cady starts to put the pieces together, so will you, mostly likely with a growing sense of unease.
So this book is one of those with a crazy twist at the very end. Maybe because I was expecting it, it just didn't really catch me off guard. But I love E. Lockhart, and the writing is beautiful, as usual. She definitely paints a picture of these snotty New Englanders that sticks in your head. Her strength here is her characters, even though the plot is what seems to be getting the most attention.
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