It Ends With You

by S. K. Wright

Overview

'A darkly clever teen murder mystery [...] that succeeds in undermining everything you've come to believe and trust. S K Wright pulls off a difficult trick with apparent ease' Crime Review

If I'd told the truth, it would have been fiction.

Everyone loves Eva. Beautiful, bright, fun, generous - she's perfect.

So when her body is found in a ditch in the local woods the only thing anyone wants to know is: Who could have done this?

It has to be Luke, her boyfriend. He has the motive, the means, the opportunity and he's no stranger to the police.

Even though the picture is incomplete, the pieces fit. But as time passes, stories change.

Who could have done this? You decide.

It Ends With You is clever and compulsive. It challenges preconceptions, makes you second-guess yourself with each chapter, and it holds an uncomfortable mirror up to the way societies and systems treat outsiders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780349003160
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	09/06/2018
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

S.K.Wright is an award-winning author who has previously published novels for both teenagers and adults under her real name, Sam Mills. She studied English at Oxford and now works in publishing and lives in London. This is her debut book under the name S.K.Wright.

Editorial Reviews

A darkly clever teen murder mystery ... a rapidly-shifting story that succeeds in undermining everything you've come to believe and trust. Unreliable narrators are usually a hard sell for me, but SK Wright pulls off a difficult trick with apparent ease.—Crime Review

SK Wright cleverly plays with preconceptions, using multiple voices to suggest things are not quite what they seem.—Independent i

A brilliant thriller that will make you think again with each chapter—Bella magazine

From the Publisher

09/01/2019

Gr 9 Up—Luke thinks he's finally had a stroke of luck when the beautiful and popular Eva chooses him to be her boyfriend, but when Eva turns up murdered in a ditch, he becomes the prime suspect. Luke's reputation as a bad boy from the wrong side of the tracks is no help, but upon further investigation it is revealed that Eva may have had more secrets and enemies than anyone would have thought possible. In an effort to cover their own tracks and preserve Eva's reputation and memory, her friends begin to weave an unmanageable web of lies, which only leads to more questions. Is Luke her murderer? Who is the mysterious blonde girl with the wrist tattoo? Who was Eva's secret older boyfriend? In this quick and compelling novel, Wright asks characters and readers alike to piece together the truth of a terrible murder by providing alternating glimpses into the reactions and motivations of some seriously unreliable narrators. Dark and complicated in its narrative, this is not a novel that wraps up with a pretty bow, opting instead for some hard truths and lingering danger. VERDICT Seedy and violent without becoming too explicit, this is a good introduction to the crime and thriller genres for the younger high school crowd.—Emily Grace Le May, Ashaway Free Library, RI

School Library Journal

2019-07-24
Teen drama with a murderous twist.

When 17-year-old British girl Eva goes missing, her friends and family hope for the best—but when her body is found murdered in the woods, suspicion quickly turns toward her boyfriend, Luke. The relationship between Luke and Eva is slowly revealed to have been toxic and damaging, making Luke the perfect suspect, but that role is actually quite popular, with Eva having had a secret relationship and suspicious strangers appearing at pivotal moments in the narrative. But can Luke's lingering allies find out enough to exonerate him before his trial? As the story is told in multiple voices, including through Eva's diary, online exchanges, and narrative from several characters' first-person points of view, the drama and mystery have to work hard to surface amongst the confusing shifts in perspectives. Twists and turns abound in the novel, though often without logic or meaningful contribution to the plot, such as when Luke's friend hears that he is pleading guilty to Eva's murder, but confusingly, he claims he only said as much to a fellow inmate to seem more intimidating. Characters mainly default to white with the exception of some secondary characters.

A lackluster mystery that bows under the weight of narrative technique. (Mystery. 14-16)

Kirkus Reviews