A road near Yackandandah, Victoria. It used to be called Station Road, but eight years ago things started catching fire. Then a girl was killed, and someone got smart with the name.
Now it’s happening again. There’s a fire, and Matt Tingle and Chess Febey find another girl, drowned in a pond. Chess isn’t Matt’s friend. She’s one of those people you get stuck with – well meaning, total virus. But she knows how to answer questions, and there are plenty of those: Why are Tara and Wando afraid? What is the meaning of that lump of amber? How can a car be blue and white at the same time?To find out who killed their friend, Matt and Chess have to put themselves in danger, they have to look deep into themselves, and they have to reveal things about the past… other people’s secrets…
And the truth about what happened on Devastation Road. - from Booksirens.com
I was provided an ARC through Booksirens.com and am providing an unbiased review.
When I came across this book whilst browsing, the cover caught my eye enough that I had to read the blurb. Interesting ... mystery .... hmmmm. And so I requested (and received) a copy. Once I started reading it though, my interest waned fairly rapidly. The story itself is well-thought out, and written in a style that was easy to understand, even not having lived in the country where it takes place.
I started to lose interest from close to the start. The main character just seemed too dopey for me to feel involved. His 'partner' is the smart one, and I felt like the MC was only around to ask the dumb questions so the partner could ask the smart ones. It just didn't sit well with me. I admit I did skip some pages here and there around the middle of the book so may have missed some details of the story, but either way I did make it to the finsh, and the ending turned out decent.
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