OAAA YA Review: Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards

April 14, 2015     erinbook     Book review

Gone Too Far by Natalie D. Richards


Release Date: January 6, 2014
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
304 Pages
Received: Bought at event
Format: paperback


Rating: 

4 Nuts

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Description: Keeping secrets ruined her life. But the truth might just kill her.
 
Piper Woods can’t wait for the purgatory of senior year to end. She skirts the fringes of high school like a pro until the morning she finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins. She’s sure the book is too gruesome to be true, until pretty, popular Stella dies after a sex-tape goes viral. Everyone’s sure it’s suicide, but Piper remembers Stella’s name from the book and begins to suspect something much worse.
Drowning in secrets she doesn’t want to keep, Piper’s fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text message daring her to make things right. All she needs to do is choose a name, the name of someone who deserves to be punished…
Review: If I were to name one author whose books are like crack to me, it would be Natalie D. Richards. I sit down with one of her books to read for a few hours and the next thing I know it’s 3 in the morning. Where did all of that time go? I swear there’s some kind of wormhole that is created when you open one.That’s how addicting I find Natalie’s books, I have a very hard time even thinking about putting one down.
However, if I had to choose between this book and her previous one, I think I would pick Six Months Later as the better story. Like Six Months Later, Gone Too Far is a thriller, full of questions and mystery. Unlike Six Months Later, this book has a more flawed main character. Sure, the MC in Six Months Later is dealing with a lot of strange things but Piper makes choices that you would call questionable.
The thing I like about it is that Piper totally understands that her choices aren’t the best. She realizes that she is flawed and she does something about it. Natalie’s female MCs are some of the strongest I’ve read in contemporary fiction, and probably the reason her books sit with authors like Rainbow Rowell and John Green on my shelf.
As far as plot is concerned, I didn’t actually guess the whodunit correctly. Usually when I’m reading or watching a mystery I’m able to guess pretty accurately. I’m impressed that I was able to be fooled, way to go Natalie! You got me. It’s no fun if you can always guess the outcome, right?
Natalie D. Richards is now one of my top ten favorite authors and if you ask me for a recommendation I will shove her books at you before you can blink. They’re different, they’re nail-biting, and incredibly addicting. What more could you want?
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