Book: Heartless by Sara Shepard

Pages: 274, Hardcover

Oh.  My.  God.  By the end of the book, I was speechless, and utterly confused.  Just when you think the girls are going to jail, charges against them are dropped.  They go home to find that Jenna Cavanaugh was killed…just like Ali was years earlier. 

After the fire, no one believes them when they all insist that they saw Ali.  Emily gets sent to Lancaster, where she discovers that Officer Wilden was a part of the Amish community, and that a girl named Leah disappeared around the time of Ali’s death.  She thinks he killed her and that he can’t be trusted. 

Aria goes to a seance, but learns nothing.  She sees another medium, who says that Ali killed Ali.  Hanna gets sent to a clinic by her father because he doesn’t want her eating disorder to appear after everything that’s happened.  She meets Iris, who Hanna comes to think is involved with Ali’s murder.

Spencer, on the other hand, finds out that her dad had an affair with Ali’s mom, and tries to comes to terms with the idea that Jason and Ali might have been her half-siblings.  Her mom finds out about it for the first time, and thinks her mother might have killed Ali because of it. 

They get sent to jail, like I mentioned earlier, and then they get released, because Billy Ford, someone who was working on a gazebo at Ali’s old house, is now a suspect.

So there’s a lot going on, and I was kept interested the whole time.  I didn’t want to put it down, and when I was finished, I was in disbelief.  I didn’t see any of this coming, and if there’s anything Shepard is good at, it’s keeping reader’s guessing. 

I think this is my favorite of the 7, because there’s so much going on and I was kept guessing the whole time.  It gets a 5 out of 5!