She and Simone have been best friends since they were in elementary school – they were closer than close – and she’s certain she wouldn’t have killed her.īut the media loves the story of a popular cheerleader being murdered by her nerdy best friend (apparently there was a suave Italian college student involved? Jill doesn’t remember him either), and Jill quickly realizes that her parents think she killed Simone too. She’s starting to regret having woken up from her brief coma. Oh, also, did her parents mention that the media (not to mention the Italian police) think it wasn’t an accident, but premeditated murder? Jill’s been in a car accident in Italy (she was on a pre-graduation humanities trip with a bunch of other students), and she quickly discovers that the car accident killed her best friend, Simone.Īs if that’s not enough to take in, she realizes that she can’t remember anything of the past six weeks – her last memories are of several weeks before she left for Italy. She’s got some pretty major injuries and both of her parents (long divorced and not amiably so) are there, so she knows things are bad.Īnd, they are. Happily, I didn’t see that blurb before I read With Malice because I probably wouldn’t have even cracked it open. And I didn’t really care for either of them. The blurb says “For fans of We Were Liars and The Girl on the Train” and I’ve read both of those books. To be fair, all my reading has dropped over the past year, but nothing as sharply as Young Adult.īut I took With Malice on our trip to Vegas last week, and I was sucked in from the first page. Sometime over the past four years, my YA reading has dropped drastically and more and more of my reading is from the grown-up section of the library. (Predictably, it was a Sarah Dessen book. You know when I last wrote a review of a Young Adult book on here?
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