The Perfect Girl by Gilly MacMillan

 

The Perfect Girl recently came out in paperback, and despite being a little outside my usual genre choice, ended up at the top of my weekend read pile.  Page turner doesn’t quite do it justice.  If you can read it at a Middle School Volleyball Tournament between your daughter’s games, sitting in bleachers, it must be addictively good.  Just sayin’.

Let me set the story.  Zoe is an accomplished pianist who at 14 was convicted of killing three classmates in a car accident.  She serves her time, her parents divorce, her mother marries a man who also is a parent to a piano prodigy.  The new family moves and tries to start over in a new town, new school…it turns out not even the new husband knows their secret.  At first…

This isn’t a book where I felt for the characters enough to root for them in the beginning.  But, there is always a story.  As the plot twists and turns and is shared through a variety of view points, I found myself trying to predict and hoping for certain outcomes.  The ending did not disappoint, and held a little surprise for this reader.  If you are looking to escape into a book for an evening or a weekend, and are in the mood for a little suspense, The Perfect Girl might just be your perfect read.