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    Bury This

    By Andrea Portes

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    If twenty-five years can discover the internet, the cell phone, this thing called the iPod, can twenty-five years discover the secret of a girl murdered, abandoned, by the side of the road?

    That is the haunting premise of Bury This, an impressionistic literary thriller about the murder of a young girl in small-town Michigan in 1979. Beth Krause was by all intents a good little girl member of the church choir, beloved daughter of doting parents, friend to the downtrodden. But dig a little deeper into any small town, and conflicts and jealousies begin to appear. And somewhere is that heady mix lies the answer to what really happened to Beth Krause.

    Her unsolved murder becomes the stuff of town legend, and twenty-five years later the case is re-ignited when a group of film students start making a documentary on Beth’s fateful life. The town has never fully healed over the loss of Beth, and the new investigation calls into light several key characters: her father, a WWII vet; her mother, once the toast of Manhattan; her best friend, abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself against an abusive father; and the detective, just a rookie when the case broke, haunted by his inability to bring Beth’s murderer to justice. All of these passions will collide once the identity of Beth’s murderer is revealed, proving once again that some secrets can never stay buried.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSoft Skull Press
    Release dateDec 31, 2013
    ISBN9781619023635
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    Andrea Portes

    Andrea Portes is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels, Hick, her debut, which was made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis, and Bury This. Her first novel for young adult readers, Anatomy of a Misfit, was called “perfection in book form” by Teen Vogue. Her other YA novels include The Fall of Butterflies and Liberty: The Spy Who (Kind of) Liked Me. Andrea Portes’s spooky, timeless middle grade debut is Henry & Eva and the Castle on the Cliff. Andrea grew up on the outskirts of Lincoln, Nebraska. Later, she attended Bryn Mawr College. Currently she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sandy Tolan, their son, Wyatt, and their dog, Rascal. You can visit her online at www.andreaportes.squarespace.com.

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    • 2/5
      From The Cover:

      Bury This is a daring thriller about the murder of a young woman in small-town Michigan in 1979. Beth Krause was by all intents a good girl - but dig a little deeper into any small town and conflicts and jealousies begin to appear. Beth's unsolved murder becomes the stuff of town legends and twenty-five years later the case is reignited when a group of film students starts making a documentary on her fated life. The town has never fully healed over the loss of Beth, and the new investigation calls into light several key characters: her father, a WWII vet; her mother, once the toast of Manhattan; her best friend, abandoned by her mother and left to fend for herself; and the detective haunted by his inability to bring Beth's murderer to justice. All these passions will collide once the murder's identity is revealed, proving once again that secrets can never stay buried.

      My Thoughts:

      This entire book should have "stayed buried" as far as I can determine. What do they do...hire someone to write these covers that has never opened the book?
      It's a fairly short book at 260 pages and I have to say at the end..."What exactly was supposed to have happened?". To begin with the language...to say the writing style was unusual would be a massive understatement. It was almost like the author was trying to glamorize what she could have just simply stated to start with... with far fewer adjectives and adverbs. This wasn't William Shakespeare. Secondly...I'm not opposed to "dirty" words but most of them used here were entirely unnecessary in telling the story and seemed by their usage to throw the entire book out of context. It's based on a true story but it came across as very mediocre and without much depth. I really expected more from the detective who seemed crushed by his inability to solve this case. So what did this book do for me? It provided my ability to finished several challenge categories. For that it will earn an extra half star. 2.5 stars.

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    • 1/5
      The premise is interesting, but I found the book corny and predictable. By the end I skimmed pages just to get to the end.

      1 person found this helpful