A review by kendraji
The Elizas by Sara Shepard
4.0
I'll start by saying that I completely love everything written by Sara Shepard. Every time I pick up one of her novels I know that I will be completely drawn in. With that being said, I feel that The Eliza's is unlike anything she has written before.
The content itself is more mature and intense as our main character is in her early twenties and is dealing with some heavy topics. From the beginning, we are supposed to assume that our main character Eliza is an unreliable narrator. As the story continued, I found myself switching sides multiple time as new information is revealed. I really enjoy books with unreliable narrators as they are more unpredictable as your normal run-of-the-mill YA Thrillers. However, I am taking away one star because I felt that the plot of the story was too confusing. Sara was trying to implicate too many people and scenarios that by the time we got to the 'reveal' I didn't know what to believe and everything seemed a little too convenient. Overall, this book left me on the edge of my seat. Towards the end of the novel, I found myself unable to put this book down.
The content itself is more mature and intense as our main character is in her early twenties and is dealing with some heavy topics. From the beginning, we are supposed to assume that our main character Eliza is an unreliable narrator. As the story continued, I found myself switching sides multiple time as new information is revealed. I really enjoy books with unreliable narrators as they are more unpredictable as your normal run-of-the-mill YA Thrillers. However, I am taking away one star because I felt that the plot of the story was too confusing. Sara was trying to implicate too many people and scenarios that by the time we got to the 'reveal' I didn't know what to believe and everything seemed a little too convenient. Overall, this book left me on the edge of my seat. Towards the end of the novel, I found myself unable to put this book down.