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Even though her father was cleared of murder, and found not guilty nobody will believe her, and her school life is increasingly getting worse. Then, Bruce hatches a plan – to go to Greece on a school trip and stay after to find out what really happened the day her Grandmother died and clear her Father's name once and for all.
This book does grab you and not let you go. The plot is interesting and absorbing. There are moments when I feel the content is a little age inappropriate, and a little confused about what age range it is aimed at. At one point in the book it came very close to losing my attention due to the main characters sexual relationship with a thirty-four year old man. However, I feel it can just be overlooked due to the good plot and well written characters. Bruce is a lovely character, and I felt sorry for him in all the right places – but then I am a sucker for nice male characters!
One thing I did pick up on was the poorly written dialogue regarding the playground conversation – being young myself, and the playground being in the not too distant past, I can safely say that kids don't talk to each other like that. The swearing too I found a problem, in one place it would simply say 'she swore' and on the other it would just go ahead and say it in the text. I felt that the author should of chosen one route – if she was going to swear in dialogue to be brave enough to just do it.
