Skye has plenty of attitude but also an emotional depth and maturity beyond the much more familiar teenage angst. Teenage Skye (her age isn't given but it appears she is about 15) loses her sister to a murder/drowning accident, a tragedy that rips apart her family and sends her into seclusion, denial, and an unhealthy extended mourning. Rather than erasing all thoughts of the past, Skye finds herself having to confront her worst fears.

The courage and strength to want to live and move beyond the pain and debilitating feelings that come with grief. The messages that the book was based around i found creepy at the beginning but then i got used to it. And while this book does have a thriller/mystery element to it, what this book does really well is explore grief. However the ending was so rushed, and you was sat there wondering why you'd spent so long reading this for it to come to that ending in literally 5 pages. It's beautifully subtle in its slow reveal of what happened last summer, which works well alongside the vivid characters who are all dealing with having lost someone they care about.The mystery isn't very complicated but it was enough to make my heart skip just a little bit in fear. This book explores a very wide range of themes, which are extremely prominent throughout, and act as an effective series of underlying messages within the overall plot. Supposed to be Skye’s opportunity to gain ‘closure’ she sees it more as an escape route from being hassled by her overcompensating parents and a grateful distraction from the memory of Luisa’s death. A few people do seem a little off, as if the tragedies they've endured in their young lives has had a much more twisted impact on them than it did on Sky. The main plot kinda fizzled to nothing and then the actual climax was over and done with a little too quickly.

Then she begins to receive texts from someone pretending to be her dead sister - and decides no one can be trusted. All of the kids at the summer camp have lost someone close, but the last thing Sky wants to do is think about the past. Quando cometemos um erro temos de aprender com ele e quando somos confrontados com uma situação similar temos a oportunidade de não o repetir. Having read and enjoyed Sue Wallman’s other two YA novels earlier in the year, I always expected to like this one.

It sounded like my kind of book, a thriller, a mystery and with a comparison to We Were Liars meets Thirteen Reasons Why I couldn’t wait to jump straight into the book as soon as it arrived on my door step! Loved this book - it's officially a Young Adult title and it's a very long time since I was a young adult, but the engaging central character and the twists and turns of the plot kept me reading. It is strong conceptually, and particularly excels in the way it handles several challenging topics. Not only, Skye has to contend with her new roommates Fay and Danielle, and that comes with its own set of issues, but she now is receiving text messages from Luisa, from beyond the grave. Debut author Sue Wallman deftly balances the plot of a thriller with a moving exploration of the effect of bereavement on the heroine, Skye, and the other teenagers in the story - it gives the book emotional depth, but you never get the 'ding, dong, issue coming through' feeling that you might in less capable hands.

I came across Sue Wallman’s books about six months ago when I was browsing through YA, and have now read all three.Faye who was one of skyes room mates was a nice character but was one of those characters who seeked boys attention but i did end up feeling sorry for her at the end. A quick read that's enjoyable enough, I just feel like there's so much out there that's similar, none of it was new or surprising. The idea behind it was very good, but given that it plays such a big role in the book, it is a shame that it did not feel especially well realised. It is original and fascinating, and allows the reader to develop an instant connection with the story and the sense of meaning that it carries. To see what really happened to Luisa was chilling, it seemed kind of too extreme for the book, which is a crazy thing to say, but when you think of Skye's life, and they're idyllic little house, it's hard to see it all going wrong, not helped by the fact Skye starts receiving text messages from Luisa, or so it seems?

Young Adult book was set in a mental ward that the main character's dad owned, and she lived there with her parents.

Skye quickly makes friends with her campmates and throws herself into all of the activities set by the camp, but then she starts receiving text messages from her dead sister and she starts to realise that maybe someone on the camp cannot be trusted and to find out the truth she has to think back and face the truth of what happened last summer. I really felt what she was feeling in every moment whether that be dealing with her feelings of guilt, grief or trying to move on with her life. Sue Wallman is a former magazine journalist who now combines writing with being a secondary school librarian.