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Cryer's Cross
| Title | Cryer's Cross |
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| Date | 2025-06-30 23:02:10 |
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| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
Kendall loves her life in small town Cryer's Cross, Montana, but she also longs for something more. She knows the chances of going to school in New York are small, but she's not the type to give up easily. Even though it will mean leaving Nico, the world's sweetest boyfriend, behind. But when Cryer's Cross is rocked by unspeakable tragedy, Kendall shoves her dreams aside and focuses on just one goal: help find her missing friends. Even if it means spending time with the one boy she shouldn't get close to... the one boy who makes her question everything she feels for Nico. Determined to help and to stay true to the boy she's always loved, Kendall keeps up the search—and stumbles upon some frightening local history. She knows she can't stop digging, but Kendall is about to find out just how far the townspeople will go to keep their secrets buried....
Review
2.5 stars rounded up.I am fairly certain this is the last Lisa McMann's book I will ever read. Both Gone and Cryer's Cross just don't have the emotional pull of her first 2 novels.If you read the author's books before, you are familiar with her writing style - 3rd person present tense narration. In theory, it should work wonders for this story, because: 1) this is, supposedly, a mystery and 2) the main character, Kendall, has OCD. Too bad the mystery is introduced in the beginning, when Kendall's friend and boyfriend disappear, and then abandoned until the last 40 pages or so, to give room for romance. And when the puzzle is solved, oh my, it is quite a laugh. As for OCD, it is rather superficially portrayed IMO. Instead of getting us into the mind of an obsessed person, whose every minute is taken by following routines and rituals, McMann offers only generalizations:Immediately Kendall's OCD kicks in. Fear grips her and she can't seem to get out of the desk enough.So how exactly does it kick in I wonder? I say, show me some obsessive hand washing, door touching, cleaning, organizing, repeating mantras. But no.Interestingly enough, OCD saves Kendall's life too at some point. Unfortunately, we never find out how exactly.The best part of the novel is romance, because make no mistake, this is what this is, and not a mystery. There are some cute and sweet scenes, although these new characters are never as endearing and well defined as Janie and Cabe. All in all, Cryer's Cross is just an OK read. If it were my first book by the author, I wouldn't bother to pick up any more of hers. What sucks is that I know McMann's earlier works and how great they were, and thus this book is doubly disappointing.
