Saturday, November 29, 2014

Since You've Been Gone by Mary Jennifer Payne

ARC from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Edie and her mom have been running from Edie's father and domestic abuse for about 5 years. The last move takes them halfway across the world to England trying get away from him and Edie and her mom try to start fresh in a new country. Everything is fine til Edie's mom never returns home from her first night on the job cleaning and Edie decides she can't get authorities involved so she goes off on her own to investigate her mother's disappearance. She is helped along the way by Jermaine, a boy from her new school that everyone labeled as a murderer but Edie sees another side of. Since You've Been Gone was a poignant look into the world of victims of domestic abuse and the victims who learn to take a stand.