Desire Lines by Christina Baker Kline
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Oh man, this one was a struggle.
Who wants to revisit high school? Or even worse, revisit the years in which you lost your best friend? Rather than feeling tense this story felt all kind of AWKWARD. I had such a hard time maintaining interest in wishy-washy characters, arguments about high school drama long-past, and a totally predictable missing girl mystery. Even though most of us didn't have a friend tragically disappear in our senior year, most of us can still look back at high school and realize that we might not have really known our best friends at their core. We realize that we didn't know the core of ourselves. It's called being a teenager and having room to grow.
Kline can write, and since I read and loved Orphan Train this book won't derail me from reading more of her novels. I think this was an example of poor subject matter...I just didn't want to connect. Even while I'm discounting the characters/mystery, I could totally picture the town, the school, and the reunion. All the skills to set the stage are on fine display. I just didn't care once the curtain opened!
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