Translated by: Margot Dembo
Pages: 139
Publisher:
Review Source: Amazon vine
Rating: 2.5/5
Reviewed by: Stormi
The day begins innocently enough: Annie and her friends are
enjoying a leisurely afternoon of sunbathing when an ominous storm approaches.
In the scramble to leave, Annie realizes her cousin Gina is missing. After a
fruitless search in the rain, the teens call the police. And as the hours tick
by, Annie’s fear for Gina’s safety mounts. How could this have happened? Wasn’t
anyone watching her? Didn’t anyone see? The possibilities are too horrific to
consider, and Annie turns for support to the friends who were with her and Gina
on that fateful afternoon. But as the days pass without a trace of the lost
girl, accusations begin to fly between friends, and disturbing information about
one of their own comes to light. At first Annie refuses to believe it. But as
the evidence begins to mount and the accused does nothing to clarify the
situation, Annie realizes the relationships she once held dear are not at all
what they seemed. And if a girl can’t trust her best friends…who can she trust?
Not ever read any of Kristina Dunker's novels, I seen this one on amazon vine and thought it sounded interesting. I didn't realize that it was a foreign writer whose work has been translated. Sometimes things get a bit lost in translation, but over all I thought the book was okay.
Things happen in the short novel pretty fast, sort of like the book's title a summer storm. Tension mounts when Gina goes missing. Annie has no clue what happened to her cousin and she soon fills like maybe she doesn't know her best friends like she thought she did. Five teens out in the woods before it all happens, the two boys go off on their own looking for firewood, while the girls stay near the lake. Then Gina gets up to go to the bathroom and never comes back?
I didn't think the novel was long enough to really get to know the characters involved in the story to really care what happened. That is what happens a lot of times when a novel is so short, there is not a enough character depth.
Also, you have to remember that this is a novel first written in Germany. They are a lot more relaxed on foul language than the US, so if you are in the US you might find the frequent foul language a little bit unbearable. It wasn't the highlight of the book for me as I don't really care for a lot of foul language when I am reading.
Over all, it was a okay novel and if you think it sounds interesting give it a try, but I am not really going to put in on my recommend list.
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