"I've done something wrong.
Not a little bit wrong or even quite a lot wrong.What I've done is awful.
And do you want to know the worst thing?I've got away with it.
Zoe Collins has a secret - a dark and terrible secret that she dares confess to no one that she knows.But then one day she hears of a criminal on death row who knows all about secrets.And lies.And betrayal.Desperate to confide in someone, Zoe picks up a pen, and takes a deep breath.
These are the letters that she wrote"
Review: This book is made up of a series of letters written by a 15 year old British girl and they are addressed to a man who is a prisoner on Death Row in Texas. In the stare she is cautious about revealing her identity and location, writing under the pseudonym "Zoe" and living in Fiction Road. Ironically "Zoe" feels that she and Stuart have something in common - he having murdered his wife and she feeling responsible for the death of a boy she knew. So she sneaks out to the garden shed at night, hoping to somehow exercise her guilt by confessing to a stranger.
We never hear directly from Stuart but there is quite enough going on in day to day life as well as "Zoe's" gradual revelation of the events of the past year - May 1st is the first anniversary of the boy's death. Annabel succeeds in weaving an intriguing tale of family relationships, the intensity of young love, the angst of the teenager as well as keeping the readers on the edge of their seats wondering who died and who is to blame for the death.
When I read this I was wondering weather or not it would have been, I enjoyed it, I allowed my sister to read it and she loved it!
So putting mine and my sisters views together I'm going to give this book a 4.5* rating.
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