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Reader reviewed by K. Weller

This book has gotten a lot of press because of the movie based on it, but in reality, it's nothing like the movie. The book deals with the same idea of 4 teens hitting a kid with the car and then trying to cover it up. Until they find that someone knows what they did and will not stop until the death is revenged.

The book deals more with the inner conflict the characters feel and in how their relationships have become strange now that this secret is like the white elephant in the room everytime they're around each other. You see how each or the 4 dealt with the death and the secret differently.

I think the book was a million times better than the movie. This is some of Lois Duncan's finest work and it's a shame that the movie turned her story into something that's less of a psychological thriller and mystery (what she intended)- than a horror film.