I just finished this book, and I have to say, it took me FOREVER to get into it. The back-story was agonizing to get through, but I'll admit that once I got past it, it was a pretty good book. Lexie spends way too much time building virtual relationships, in my opinion, and it bothered me that no one seemed to care that she didn't have any "real" friends. In fact, even online she only had one. The sci-fi element is definately present--she can talk to her dead mother through her computer--but it's nicely balanced with mystery and suspense. I was almost obsessed with Lexie solving the case and bringing her mother's murderer to justice. Even though it's made pretty clear who the killer was, I kept waiting for either someone to believe Lexie or kill her.
There were very believable parts--the reaction to her mother's death by both Lexie and her father, Lexie's need to both protect her father and uncover the truth about her mother's accident--but there were some things that seemed a little too over-the-top. While I liked that Lexie finally makes friends with people outside of the Internet, it seemed a bit much to have one of them perched at the top of the school's social ladder and the other the super-cute surfer boy next door. I think the quickly-formed friendship between Lexie and Zoe would have been more believable if Zoe had turned out to be the friend Lexie had all along and didn't know it.
The ending left me wanting more--a more complete resolution with regards to the arrest of her mother's murder as well as the hows and whys of it all, and more about what how Lexie adjusts to her new life after her father's "wedding."
3/5 Stars
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