The Sound is a teen romance/drama book written by the highly acclaimed Sarah Alderson (Writer of "Hunting Lila" and "Losing Lila"). It follows the story of a young-girl hoping for a great summer of "nannying" on the sunny island of Nantucket, following her recent break-up with her boyfriend, in which he publicly humiliates her on Facebook. However, she soon discovers that Nantucket isn't all that it's cracked up to be...
Filled with smoking hot boys, scantily clad beach-bathing girls, and one or two murdering and abusive "friends", this is Alderson's next masterpiece.
I myself thoroughly enjoyed this book, however thought that it fell a bit short of her previous two books; this is probably due to the fact that it is quite a stereotypical teen book (ignoring the murders, arson attacks and assaults) and jut simply follows the "norm" within the genre of "Teen Summer Romances". However this did not stop me reading until the early hours of the morning, and finding that I really wished it would carry on. This is certainly one of the things that Alderson did right in this book, as the reader is left with the inability to put it down. She cleverly does this by beginning the book with an attack that actually happens right at the climax at the end, this then enables the book to build-up to the beginning chapter...at the end; which, in turn, ensures that I, throughout the book, was caught in an inner state of turmoil with the desperation to get to the end to find out what actually happens, yet not wanting it to end at all.
Rating: 4/5
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