Member Reviews
Brooke is determined to put the past behind her and focus on getting into Yale, snagging the boy of her dreams, and not letting down her family. After the death of one of her classmates at a lake house party she threw last year, she's been haunted by an unknown caller who claims she was responsible for what happened. Now, as she finishes out her senior year, her stalker is taking it to the next level, and as Brooke is tailed by a van on a remote country road, she starts to wonder if they actually want to see her dead. Megan Lally's second novel, No Place Left To Hide, is a superior YA thriller with a fun atmosphere and good plotting. One solid twist occurs long enough before the end of the book that Lally has time to deal with the fallout (I struggle with thrillers that throw in too many twists for the sake of it, and especially those that want to deliver a 'shocking' ending that ends up being silly). I finished it, however, feeling a bit frustrated, because I was still rooting for characters I was obviously not supposed to like. Nobody really comes off well in this book, but some characters get punished far more than others. I guess another way of putting this is that I didn't find the twist completely believable. I wonder if Lally should have turned it up a notch and made everybody really hateable, avoiding that hint of moral judgment. Nevertheless, I think this will appeal to both YA and thriller fans.