Yesterday morning, on Halloween, I spontaneously decided to read an entire book set on Halloween in one day. I had never heard of this book before, but it seemed interesting enough. Man, reading this was a wild ride. I was shocked and slightly horrified the entire time—and I loved it. Tress Montor’s family name used to mean something. Now she’s just the girl with no parents who lives with her drunken, one eyed grandfather at what the locals nicknamed the ‘White Trash Zoo’, a grubby menagerie of animals including a panther, an alligator, and an orangutan. Tress needs to know what happened to her parents all those years ago, when they disappeared without a trace in the middle of the night, and she’ll do anything to find out.
Felicity Turnado is one of the popular girls, the one at all the parties, the one with the best boyfriend…and Tress’s ex best friend. But Felicity was also the only one in the car with Tress’s parents the night they vanished, and she has no memory of it.
Now, Tress’s plot for answers or revenge starts at a Halloween party, with Felicity locked in the basement. Tress is slowly bricking Felicity into a coal chute in a house soon to be torn down…and she won’t stop until Felicity gives her the information she needs. With Tress and Felicity in the basement, a panther on the loose, and teenagers dropping like flies at the party above, will anyone make it out alive? Told in alternating perspectives from Tress and Felicity, with interludes from the panther of all things, this was certainly a book that I will think about for a long time to come. I intend to read the sequel soon.
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