When aspiring music journalist Ren Kingston takes a job nannying for a wealthy family on the exclusive island of Nantucket, playground for Boston's elite, she's hoping for a low-key summer reading books and blogging about bands. Boys are firmly off the agenda.
What she doesn't count on is falling in with a bunch of party-loving private school kids who are hiding some dark secrets, falling (possibly) in love with the local bad boy, and falling out with a dangerous serial killer...
Publication Date: August 1, 2013
What she doesn't count on is falling in with a bunch of party-loving private school kids who are hiding some dark secrets, falling (possibly) in love with the local bad boy, and falling out with a dangerous serial killer...
Publication Date: August 1, 2013
The Sound is a YA book that I completely loved, but I
definitely felt way too old to love it as much as I did. The story was a little
bit cheesy, but sometimes I’m in the mood for books that I can grin throughout.
There were a few tense and serious parts, but the murder mystery took a
backseat to the love triangle drama.
Ren is a British nanny who spends the summer with the
wealthy in Nantucket. There were a few clichés as far as how Americans were
described by Ren and it did grow a little tiresome at times. But I did find her
funny and I related to how she was trying to run away from a bad breakup back
home and start over with new friends and new love interests.
Jesse and I had a complicated relationship through the book
(I actually liked the guy who turned out to be a douche more for the majority
of the novel). I just didn’t get what Ren saw in him at first especially when
he basically threatened her during their initial meeting and he had put a guy
in a coma the summer before (he of course had a reason for it that she finds
out later. But still). But Jesse wormed his way into my heart and I ended up
liking him by the last quarter of the book.
The plot of the novel really grabbed me and I found it hard
to put the book down. I wanted to know all the secrets of Jesse and Ren’s new
group of posh friends. There is also a nanny killer on the loose that is worked
in as a subplot and I liked the suspenseful scenes that bookended the novel.
Overall, I really liked The Sound and I’m looking forward to
reading more contemporaries by the author.
4/5 Stars
Thanks to the publisher for a copy of the novel for review!
