Hold Tight
Hold Tight
By Harlan Coben
My Rating: 5
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Finished on: Apr 8, 2020
Whaaaat did I just read? Seriously? This was the third book of Harlan which I've read so far, and this didn't disappoint me one bit! Just like his other books.
Amazing as ever.
Honestly, if I could give more than 5 star rating, I would, as even 5 wouldn't do justice to this book.
Just wow :')
Such a riveting plot since page one, you would want to carry this book everywhere and finish in one sitting, just to find out what's happening. And trust me, even the last of the pages will make you feel exhilarated. That's Harlan for you!
The description of this book was so brief, never had I thought the story is so much more deeper than it seems.
There were so many families involved, their own problems.
And their own secrets.
Well.. The front cover of the book DID say that..
Every family has its secrets...
So, let's discuss the plot, shall we?
I thought the book would start with Adam, he's the protagonist according to the book's description, isn't he?
Adam Baye goes distant from his parents ever since his friend Spencer Hill committed suicide. Anyone would guess he was involved in his friend's death. Heck, who knows he might have BEEN the one who killed his friend? Why would you be distant? Why would you be depressed otherwise if it wasn't the guilt eating you inside? This is all so predictable.
But the one question would remain is WHY you'd kill your friend. And for that, we have to keep turning the pages.
So yeah, the book starts with this crazy psycho killer, who brutally tricks and murders a woman named Marianne.
Who is this Nash? Who is this Pietra? What did Marianne do to them to deserve such a horrifying death? And how on earth is this incident related to Adam's family?!
I forgot. This is Harlan's book. He'll somehow connect them all in the end.
And not just them, there were so many other characters to connect them all together in the end.
Here's how.
Next comes what we were anticipating for. Tia and Mike Baye installing the software on Adam's computer to spy on him.
Good. Teenage these days do so many things, parents have every right to know if their kids are rebelling in any sort of way. And things start going terribly wrong ever since the spy report claims about the IM and email Adam receives on his computer.
Email about meeting at Huffs, and IM from the mysterious character CeeJay8115: Just stay quiet and all safe
Although Adam's parents were worried about the meaning of latter, their main focus was on the former.
Huffs are bad. Adam should definitely NOT go there. How do we stop him? Oh yes, make other plans! And what happens? Not only Adam bails on them, but he completely disappears.
And he disappears right after Betsy Hill's confrontation with him, which was regarding the picture of Spencer and Adam being in the background. And picture is pretty much taken the day he died. So.. Weren't we right? He's definitely involved.
But his parents don't know. They try to find Adam. Tia isn't around, so Mike goes to Daniel Huff's place, and then follows the GPS and ends up in an alley full of clubs around.
And oh, how could I forget. The Loriman family is introduced around this time. Susan's son Lucas's health is deteriorating, and he won't get better unless he has kidney transplant. And before Adam's disappearance we come to know one strange fact about Loriman's family. Dante Loriman is not the biological father of Lucas. And Susan is shattered. Because neither he nor she is a good enough match for Lucas. And ideally it would be the father who has a perfect match for any child. After any sibling of course. So how can Lucas be saved?
We don't know. And Loriman's family was given a good focus in this book, so my obvious question was, how are they related to Adam's story?? Well, in a way, they were.
Before we come to that, Mike follows the GPS and ends up in that alley. Meets a bouncer who's part of an alumni of the same college Mike went to, Dartmouth. They briefly bond, before Mike going to an area where Adam is most likely to be in.
And... He gets ambushed and beaten. Pretty badly.
So since Mike had spotted DJ Huffs varsity jacket around this place, it was pretty much clear that Adam WAS in this place.
And his father gets beaten.
At this point some things didn't add up, and Adam pissed me off.
First, if the email said Huffs were going to be away, why was Daniel Huff still home? Was the email a lie, if so why?
And what kind of a sick teenager Adam turned out to be? Being involved in your own friend's murder and watching your father get beaten?! I mean, probably your "friends" were the one beating him up. You'll let that happen?! Sick.
Meanwhile on the other side the psycho Nash yet grabs another woman, Reba Cordova, and brutally kills her too. Before killings he lets her know why she is being tortured. "Marianne sent you something."
What did she send??
And before she took her last breath, Nash told the same line to Reba as well which he told to Marianne, mentioning his ex wife Cassandra.
Who is this Cassandra? Who were these two women and how are they related and what the heck happened??
We won't know. At least not yet.
Slowly, slowly, things started making sense. Mike gets discharged and goes to that place again, confronts the manager Rosemary McDevitt about where Adam was. And at this point it was sure that Adam had been here. And he also found the guy in that who beat him up, Carson, and while confronting him, Mike gets arrested by FBI.
And from here, almost everything is revealed.
Mike's and Ilene Goldfarb's career is at stake. Some bunch of kids (mainly Adam) stole prescription pads and were involved in dealing of drugs which made it illegal.
So this is what it has been? Adam being involved in all this? But why did Spencer die?
Tia's boss Hester Crimstein is Adam's attorney. And her badass behaviour in front of the FBI impressed me. She makes it possible for them to get out but the story doesn't end here. FBI is after Adam. And they will get to Adam.
And.. Really. So many things were revealed at once. I'm not sure which one to begin with!
Reba's husband identified Marianne, and from there the cops found Marianne's next of kin. And nobody, not even her family reported about her disappearance. Why? Because they weren't close. And because her family was Guy Novak's family!
That was a big shock.
Guy Novak. Father of Yasmin, friend of Jill Baye. We were told how because of a certain teacher Joe Lewiston, Yasmin's childhood is ruined, all because he randomly made a comment about her which made a lasting impression in front of her classmates. This makes Guy Novak angry. He wants to do something for her daughter, but he doesn't know what. He doesn't know how. It almost makes us thing he'll opt some violent way to take avenge. But will he?
These things aside, he comes to know his ex wife his dead. And although she left him long back, and meets her daughter occasionally, he is still distraught. Even Yasmin is, when she comes to know something bad might have happened to her mother.
But one question was gnawing at us. Why was she killed??
It was soon answered, when we come to know that Joe Lewiston and Nash are related. Joe is Cassandra's brother. And Nash promised Cassandra on her death bed that he'll protect those she loves. Cassandra loves her family. Nash has to protect it. And if someone is bothering Joe, then he needs to take care of it, shouldn't he? So he goes after Marianne.
Because of some email she sent to Dolly, Joe's wife.
What email?? We don't know.
But wait, we come to know the emails are still coming even after Marianne has died. So.. It has been Guy Novak all along? Jeez. Marianne died for nothing.
But again, what email did Guy sent which cost lives of two innocent women??
It was answered when Joe realised what Nash has been doing all along. To avenge what Joe did to her daughter, Marianne tricks him into committing adultery and video tapes it all. And threatened him for months with it, but didn't send out an email until that one fine day his wife received it.
Nash was surprised to know that despite it not being her who sent the email, even in her last breath, even after getting beaten so much she admits to sending it.
I mean for a woman who abandoned her family, she went this far to protect them. I was moved.
So now we know Guy sent the email. Nash's next target is Guy. And the girls, Jill and Yasmin, are at home with him.
Meanwhile on the other hand, Adam meets Betsy and admits Spencer's death was his fault. He looks messy. Half injured himself. And he looks guilty. He tells he fought with Spencer over a girl and Spencer not being able to take in so much which has been going on in his life, he ends it.
So.. This much was clear. Spencer wasn't killed, but it was a suicide. However, Adam feels his fight with him triggered it.
At least he admitted. That's enough for a closure.
But wait, fight over a giirl ?? Doesn't that sound so lame.
And it was. As the truth was something else.
When Mike and Tia return home after the FBI meet, with the help of Brett, her techie colleague, Tia comes to know one weird truth. The email was not only received on Adam's computer, but it was sent from there. And at that time none from the family was present. So who sent/received it?
The only person apart from family having the access to house key is Mo. But Mo didn't know about this software thing until Tia told Mike about the email.
So... Who was it?? And after opening the email was deleted too, almost as if they wanted to fool Adam's parents. Who was it, and why was this done??
So many questions.
Mike takes Mo and goes to Club Jaguar again. To have a proper confrontation with the owner, find Adam and end this all. And there, Carson is waiting with a gun because he feels Mike and Adam are posing a threat to him.
Adam heads there with DJ Huff too, as he wants to save his father and end this crap himself.
But with Carson having a gun, will Mike and Adam make it out of that place?
Here Father and son's life was in danger. And there Mother and Daughter weren't safe either. Tia goes to pick Jill from Guy's place, only to find Nash trapping Guy and the girls.
Nash is a pyscho killer with a knife, Carson is another pyscho with a gun. Will Baye Family make it out of this mess alive?
Let's pause a bit. I've read two books of Harlan so far, Fool Me Once and The Stranger. And in both Harlan kills one of the main protagonist in the end. Well in one the death will be revealed in the end.. But anyway. So I didn't really trust the author. And so hoped and prayed they should all survive.
And thankfully..
They did.
In Adam's case Mo and Anthony, the club bouncer were the saviours. And in Tia's case, surprisingly, it was Jill who rushed upstairs to get a gun and end this killer's life once and for all.
Jill did it! I was so surprised. She isn't a kid after all.
And the cops come soon too. As they catch hold of Pietra anyway, and Joe did not want another life to be lost because of him.
Whew. The killer dies. The end.
Or, is it?
FBI questions Adam, and he refuses to speak a word. Tells "they won't believe me anyway". Why is he not speaking, and what won't they believe?
It was revealed a short while later when Betsy and Ron Hill come to the station. They both didn't fight over a girl, but because it was Spencer who stole those prescription pads from Adam's place. Adam was pissed because Spencer put his father's career at risk. He fights with him. Hits him. Calls him names. Which breaks Spencer, so much that he has had enough, and he ends his life.
And Adam refused to speak, as how could he? Why to blame a person who is already dead? Why spoil his image and hurt his parents. And will anyone believe him anyway? As he's the son of a doctor after all.
But they all did. They did believe him.
Amazing as ever.
Honestly, if I could give more than 5 star rating, I would, as even 5 wouldn't do justice to this book.
Just wow :')
Such a riveting plot since page one, you would want to carry this book everywhere and finish in one sitting, just to find out what's happening. And trust me, even the last of the pages will make you feel exhilarated. That's Harlan for you!
The description of this book was so brief, never had I thought the story is so much more deeper than it seems.
There were so many families involved, their own problems.
And their own secrets.
Well.. The front cover of the book DID say that..
Every family has its secrets...
So, let's discuss the plot, shall we?
I thought the book would start with Adam, he's the protagonist according to the book's description, isn't he?
Adam Baye goes distant from his parents ever since his friend Spencer Hill committed suicide. Anyone would guess he was involved in his friend's death. Heck, who knows he might have BEEN the one who killed his friend? Why would you be distant? Why would you be depressed otherwise if it wasn't the guilt eating you inside? This is all so predictable.
But the one question would remain is WHY you'd kill your friend. And for that, we have to keep turning the pages.
So yeah, the book starts with this crazy psycho killer, who brutally tricks and murders a woman named Marianne.
Who is this Nash? Who is this Pietra? What did Marianne do to them to deserve such a horrifying death? And how on earth is this incident related to Adam's family?!
I forgot. This is Harlan's book. He'll somehow connect them all in the end.
And not just them, there were so many other characters to connect them all together in the end.
Here's how.
Next comes what we were anticipating for. Tia and Mike Baye installing the software on Adam's computer to spy on him.
Good. Teenage these days do so many things, parents have every right to know if their kids are rebelling in any sort of way. And things start going terribly wrong ever since the spy report claims about the IM and email Adam receives on his computer.
Email about meeting at Huffs, and IM from the mysterious character CeeJay8115: Just stay quiet and all safe
Although Adam's parents were worried about the meaning of latter, their main focus was on the former.
Huffs are bad. Adam should definitely NOT go there. How do we stop him? Oh yes, make other plans! And what happens? Not only Adam bails on them, but he completely disappears.
And he disappears right after Betsy Hill's confrontation with him, which was regarding the picture of Spencer and Adam being in the background. And picture is pretty much taken the day he died. So.. Weren't we right? He's definitely involved.
But his parents don't know. They try to find Adam. Tia isn't around, so Mike goes to Daniel Huff's place, and then follows the GPS and ends up in an alley full of clubs around.
And oh, how could I forget. The Loriman family is introduced around this time. Susan's son Lucas's health is deteriorating, and he won't get better unless he has kidney transplant. And before Adam's disappearance we come to know one strange fact about Loriman's family. Dante Loriman is not the biological father of Lucas. And Susan is shattered. Because neither he nor she is a good enough match for Lucas. And ideally it would be the father who has a perfect match for any child. After any sibling of course. So how can Lucas be saved?
We don't know. And Loriman's family was given a good focus in this book, so my obvious question was, how are they related to Adam's story?? Well, in a way, they were.
Before we come to that, Mike follows the GPS and ends up in that alley. Meets a bouncer who's part of an alumni of the same college Mike went to, Dartmouth. They briefly bond, before Mike going to an area where Adam is most likely to be in.
And... He gets ambushed and beaten. Pretty badly.
So since Mike had spotted DJ Huffs varsity jacket around this place, it was pretty much clear that Adam WAS in this place.
And his father gets beaten.
At this point some things didn't add up, and Adam pissed me off.
First, if the email said Huffs were going to be away, why was Daniel Huff still home? Was the email a lie, if so why?
And what kind of a sick teenager Adam turned out to be? Being involved in your own friend's murder and watching your father get beaten?! I mean, probably your "friends" were the one beating him up. You'll let that happen?! Sick.
Meanwhile on the other side the psycho Nash yet grabs another woman, Reba Cordova, and brutally kills her too. Before killings he lets her know why she is being tortured. "Marianne sent you something."
What did she send??
And before she took her last breath, Nash told the same line to Reba as well which he told to Marianne, mentioning his ex wife Cassandra.
Who is this Cassandra? Who were these two women and how are they related and what the heck happened??
We won't know. At least not yet.
Slowly, slowly, things started making sense. Mike gets discharged and goes to that place again, confronts the manager Rosemary McDevitt about where Adam was. And at this point it was sure that Adam had been here. And he also found the guy in that who beat him up, Carson, and while confronting him, Mike gets arrested by FBI.
And from here, almost everything is revealed.
Mike's and Ilene Goldfarb's career is at stake. Some bunch of kids (mainly Adam) stole prescription pads and were involved in dealing of drugs which made it illegal.
So this is what it has been? Adam being involved in all this? But why did Spencer die?
Tia's boss Hester Crimstein is Adam's attorney. And her badass behaviour in front of the FBI impressed me. She makes it possible for them to get out but the story doesn't end here. FBI is after Adam. And they will get to Adam.
And.. Really. So many things were revealed at once. I'm not sure which one to begin with!
Reba's husband identified Marianne, and from there the cops found Marianne's next of kin. And nobody, not even her family reported about her disappearance. Why? Because they weren't close. And because her family was Guy Novak's family!
That was a big shock.
Guy Novak. Father of Yasmin, friend of Jill Baye. We were told how because of a certain teacher Joe Lewiston, Yasmin's childhood is ruined, all because he randomly made a comment about her which made a lasting impression in front of her classmates. This makes Guy Novak angry. He wants to do something for her daughter, but he doesn't know what. He doesn't know how. It almost makes us thing he'll opt some violent way to take avenge. But will he?
These things aside, he comes to know his ex wife his dead. And although she left him long back, and meets her daughter occasionally, he is still distraught. Even Yasmin is, when she comes to know something bad might have happened to her mother.
But one question was gnawing at us. Why was she killed??
It was soon answered, when we come to know that Joe Lewiston and Nash are related. Joe is Cassandra's brother. And Nash promised Cassandra on her death bed that he'll protect those she loves. Cassandra loves her family. Nash has to protect it. And if someone is bothering Joe, then he needs to take care of it, shouldn't he? So he goes after Marianne.
Because of some email she sent to Dolly, Joe's wife.
What email?? We don't know.
But wait, we come to know the emails are still coming even after Marianne has died. So.. It has been Guy Novak all along? Jeez. Marianne died for nothing.
But again, what email did Guy sent which cost lives of two innocent women??
It was answered when Joe realised what Nash has been doing all along. To avenge what Joe did to her daughter, Marianne tricks him into committing adultery and video tapes it all. And threatened him for months with it, but didn't send out an email until that one fine day his wife received it.
Nash was surprised to know that despite it not being her who sent the email, even in her last breath, even after getting beaten so much she admits to sending it.
I mean for a woman who abandoned her family, she went this far to protect them. I was moved.
So now we know Guy sent the email. Nash's next target is Guy. And the girls, Jill and Yasmin, are at home with him.
Meanwhile on the other hand, Adam meets Betsy and admits Spencer's death was his fault. He looks messy. Half injured himself. And he looks guilty. He tells he fought with Spencer over a girl and Spencer not being able to take in so much which has been going on in his life, he ends it.
So.. This much was clear. Spencer wasn't killed, but it was a suicide. However, Adam feels his fight with him triggered it.
At least he admitted. That's enough for a closure.
But wait, fight over a giirl ?? Doesn't that sound so lame.
And it was. As the truth was something else.
When Mike and Tia return home after the FBI meet, with the help of Brett, her techie colleague, Tia comes to know one weird truth. The email was not only received on Adam's computer, but it was sent from there. And at that time none from the family was present. So who sent/received it?
The only person apart from family having the access to house key is Mo. But Mo didn't know about this software thing until Tia told Mike about the email.
So... Who was it?? And after opening the email was deleted too, almost as if they wanted to fool Adam's parents. Who was it, and why was this done??
So many questions.
Mike takes Mo and goes to Club Jaguar again. To have a proper confrontation with the owner, find Adam and end this all. And there, Carson is waiting with a gun because he feels Mike and Adam are posing a threat to him.
Adam heads there with DJ Huff too, as he wants to save his father and end this crap himself.
But with Carson having a gun, will Mike and Adam make it out of that place?
Here Father and son's life was in danger. And there Mother and Daughter weren't safe either. Tia goes to pick Jill from Guy's place, only to find Nash trapping Guy and the girls.
Nash is a pyscho killer with a knife, Carson is another pyscho with a gun. Will Baye Family make it out of this mess alive?
Let's pause a bit. I've read two books of Harlan so far, Fool Me Once and The Stranger. And in both Harlan kills one of the main protagonist in the end. Well in one the death will be revealed in the end.. But anyway. So I didn't really trust the author. And so hoped and prayed they should all survive.
And thankfully..
They did.
In Adam's case Mo and Anthony, the club bouncer were the saviours. And in Tia's case, surprisingly, it was Jill who rushed upstairs to get a gun and end this killer's life once and for all.
Jill did it! I was so surprised. She isn't a kid after all.
And the cops come soon too. As they catch hold of Pietra anyway, and Joe did not want another life to be lost because of him.
Whew. The killer dies. The end.
Or, is it?
FBI questions Adam, and he refuses to speak a word. Tells "they won't believe me anyway". Why is he not speaking, and what won't they believe?
It was revealed a short while later when Betsy and Ron Hill come to the station. They both didn't fight over a girl, but because it was Spencer who stole those prescription pads from Adam's place. Adam was pissed because Spencer put his father's career at risk. He fights with him. Hits him. Calls him names. Which breaks Spencer, so much that he has had enough, and he ends his life.
And Adam refused to speak, as how could he? Why to blame a person who is already dead? Why spoil his image and hurt his parents. And will anyone believe him anyway? As he's the son of a doctor after all.
But they all did. They did believe him.
Hills had evidence. They accepted it. And held nothing against Adam, or anyone.
And it was Adam who stopped those guys from beating his father any more, and got few scratches here and there himself. He saved his father. And wasn't the one involved in it.
I was so wrong about him, and I'm glad that I was.
I suspected him to be a typical teenager who wants to rebel, but he was nice after all. :) 😇
So all ends well! I thought we were done with this book until I realised the significance of Loriman's wasn't revealed at all. And now it was. In between Susan approaches Ilene and confesses that she doesn't know the father, as she was raped. Later it was further revealed that the reason they cannot find the father at all, even if wanted, was because she killed him. Right after the rape. And that's how she couldn't even confess to her own husband.
But now in the end as she knocks on the door of Joe Lewiston, bells started ringing. Joe had a brother named Curtis who got shot, they don't know why, but since he was already such a messed up person with many enemies, they didn't care. Some drug dealing or robbery gone wrong. But as Susan starts asking him about it... It makes sense. Lucas is Joe's nephew. And how, how weird. That everyone were interlinked with each other.
Susan is Baye family's neighbour. Susan is related to Joe in a way, who's in turn related to Nash in a way. He killed Marianne, who's related to Yasmin and that goes back to Jill. Wow what a circle isn't it.
Now, at least now all questions are answered.
But wait! Are they? What about the email? The one sent and received from Adam's computer??
Who sent it?
And this was the ultimate shock of the book.
It was Jill Baye.
Jill had known all along about club jaguar. Adam confided with his sister (or did she eavesdrop?) and she knew about Adam's plan to get evidence and turn himself in.
Jill didn't want Adam to get into any trouble. So she she sends out an email to trick her parents.
And this wasn't the only shock. Guy Novak wasn't the one either who sent that email to Dolly Lewiston. It was Yasmin.
These kids were so tired of being kids, they wanted to prove they are not. So they snoop around. Yasmin knew about the video. She even confronted her mother, but after coming to know her mother isn't planning to send the email, Yasmin, already frustrated with the way her classmates are treating her, sends the email.
And this very email, started it all.
Wow.
Jill sobs in her mothers arms and tells her.
" That's all we did. Just sent out a couple of emails, that's all. "
That's all. Wow. But hey, we can't blame the girls. I'm just surprised that two simple emails turned life upside down for so many families. Cost two lives.. And what not. Wow.
And Jill knew about Club Jaguar all along! What!
That part made me go poker face, but anyway, that's what the story was.
And, sigh, finally and I mean reaaally, the story ends.
All questions answered. Their life goes back to normal. :)
Like how I usually give a moral lecture about how humans should be. In this one, I'd like to focus on Yasmin's case.
What Joe Lewiston did was bad, I agree. But he also apologised for it. And here, Joe's comment wasn't really the problem, but the treatment she received from her classmates !! And honestly, why would you go out of your way to bully a person whom you have no right to bully?
I mean shouldn't the parents of those nasty kids keep their children in check? You could have been born that way, would you like to be teased about it?
And Yasmin should have stood up for herself in front of her classmates for the same. Rather than planning for revenge, simply confronting them all and asking "What's wrong with my facial hair??" would do. Why be ashamed of it? It's who you are!
As much frustrated I am about it, that's all for this lecture.
So, this was my opinion about the story. Went quite long.. But no regrets. :)
TLDR; An amazing mystery book you'll ever find. Go grab and a copy and READ it! And wait for your 101 questions to get answered.
I'll end this with a quote from the book:
When a daughter smiles at her father like that, the father, no matter what his station is like, is suddenly king.
Words: 2983
Chars: 16013
And it was Adam who stopped those guys from beating his father any more, and got few scratches here and there himself. He saved his father. And wasn't the one involved in it.
I was so wrong about him, and I'm glad that I was.
I suspected him to be a typical teenager who wants to rebel, but he was nice after all. :) 😇
So all ends well! I thought we were done with this book until I realised the significance of Loriman's wasn't revealed at all. And now it was. In between Susan approaches Ilene and confesses that she doesn't know the father, as she was raped. Later it was further revealed that the reason they cannot find the father at all, even if wanted, was because she killed him. Right after the rape. And that's how she couldn't even confess to her own husband.
But now in the end as she knocks on the door of Joe Lewiston, bells started ringing. Joe had a brother named Curtis who got shot, they don't know why, but since he was already such a messed up person with many enemies, they didn't care. Some drug dealing or robbery gone wrong. But as Susan starts asking him about it... It makes sense. Lucas is Joe's nephew. And how, how weird. That everyone were interlinked with each other.
Susan is Baye family's neighbour. Susan is related to Joe in a way, who's in turn related to Nash in a way. He killed Marianne, who's related to Yasmin and that goes back to Jill. Wow what a circle isn't it.
Now, at least now all questions are answered.
But wait! Are they? What about the email? The one sent and received from Adam's computer??
Who sent it?
And this was the ultimate shock of the book.
It was Jill Baye.
Jill had known all along about club jaguar. Adam confided with his sister (or did she eavesdrop?) and she knew about Adam's plan to get evidence and turn himself in.
Jill didn't want Adam to get into any trouble. So she she sends out an email to trick her parents.
And this wasn't the only shock. Guy Novak wasn't the one either who sent that email to Dolly Lewiston. It was Yasmin.
These kids were so tired of being kids, they wanted to prove they are not. So they snoop around. Yasmin knew about the video. She even confronted her mother, but after coming to know her mother isn't planning to send the email, Yasmin, already frustrated with the way her classmates are treating her, sends the email.
And this very email, started it all.
Wow.
Jill sobs in her mothers arms and tells her.
" That's all we did. Just sent out a couple of emails, that's all. "
That's all. Wow. But hey, we can't blame the girls. I'm just surprised that two simple emails turned life upside down for so many families. Cost two lives.. And what not. Wow.
And Jill knew about Club Jaguar all along! What!
That part made me go poker face, but anyway, that's what the story was.
And, sigh, finally and I mean reaaally, the story ends.
All questions answered. Their life goes back to normal. :)
Like how I usually give a moral lecture about how humans should be. In this one, I'd like to focus on Yasmin's case.
What Joe Lewiston did was bad, I agree. But he also apologised for it. And here, Joe's comment wasn't really the problem, but the treatment she received from her classmates !! And honestly, why would you go out of your way to bully a person whom you have no right to bully?
I mean shouldn't the parents of those nasty kids keep their children in check? You could have been born that way, would you like to be teased about it?
And Yasmin should have stood up for herself in front of her classmates for the same. Rather than planning for revenge, simply confronting them all and asking "What's wrong with my facial hair??" would do. Why be ashamed of it? It's who you are!
As much frustrated I am about it, that's all for this lecture.
So, this was my opinion about the story. Went quite long.. But no regrets. :)
TLDR; An amazing mystery book you'll ever find. Go grab and a copy and READ it! And wait for your 101 questions to get answered.
I'll end this with a quote from the book:
When a daughter smiles at her father like that, the father, no matter what his station is like, is suddenly king.
Words: 2983
Chars: 16013
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