Thanks to NetGalley, the publisher and author for the opportunity to read and review this book.
This is the story of 4 teenagers, set in the late 1960s, in a fictional lakeside town in Michigan. All 4 teens come from somewhat dysfunctional families but find kindred souls in each other to the exclusion of everyone else. They struggle with all of the things that teens struggle with no matter what the era - they see things in black and white, don't see much of a future, and friends are everything. So much so that they form a Pledge - vowing to throw themselves of a ledge onto the rocks into the lake. The book is told from mostly Kay's point of view and you know from the start that she survived but don't know about the other 3.
I had mixed feelings about this book - for most of it, I kind of felt like it was a school reading assignment and I was just trudging my way through it without being too emotionally involved. However, things picked up at the end. The writing was solid and maybe I'm just too old for teenage angst!
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