It seemed like a good book when I first looked at it. Two girls want to get into college, so they fake a kidnapping to make them special and give themselves a unique experience to write about in their essays. A little unbelievable, but interesting. However, it got a little dull. It is told from the perspective of Finn, the one who did not disappear, and who hides the other, Chloe, in her grandmother's basement while she's away on vacation. The inside cover hinted at complications. So I sat through the book waiting for something to happen (this is why you shouldn't read inside covers). Maybe Chloe would actually get kidnapped or seriously hurt or something. Nothing. It was mostly about Finn's trouble with lying, trying to pretend that she had no idea what had happened to Chloe. It all got bland. Yes, okay, Chloe's parents are horrified, distraught, whatever, can we please move on? Endless pages of hearing Finn's mom worry about Chloe's mom really makes the book drag. So then, the book gets a chance to be exciting. It's time for Chloe to miraculously reappear, and, to make it seem like she was really kidnapped, she has Finn whack her on the head with a wooden board. Maybe she could get really hurt and not find her way home and get kidnapped. But no, she comes walking across the yard, acting all confused, and everyone's happy. And then Finn and Chloe's friendship falls apart. Okay...
I give it a 2.3 for an anticlimactic ending and too much drag. It was like ordering a salad, and then it came, and the only thing that came in it was lettuce.
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