I received a copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for my honest thoughts and, I’ll be honest, I found it a puzzling read.
This has a contemporary setting and we start on the morning of April Donovan’s eighteenth birthday, just four days after the Boston Marathon bombing. April has a condition that means she has perfect recall of all manner of events, so she has become fixated on the things that have gone wrong over time during her birth month.
What was clear from quite early on was that the seemingly disconnected stories that we were being given were, in actual fact, all interlinked and it was simply a case of waiting for the writer to reveal exactly how.
From April to Lincoln, Phoebe to Adrian we are shown a lot of teenagers who are all struggling with their sense of disaffection. It was clear quite early on that we would be dealing with a high-school shooting, but I did not see the twist coming.