There are one or two aspects of the book that I might quibble over, but I found the characterization in When strong, and the pacing excellent. But I was willing to give When a pass on this, because Maddie remained a strong character, and because the action was so suspenseful. I'm not normally a fan of what I call the "hapless suspect" books - where someone ends up being investigated by the police for something that they clearly didn't do. When the son disappears on his way home from school, on the appointed day, Maddie becomes a suspect, and is grilled by the FBI. When she warns a woman that he son is expected to die next week, the woman responds badly. To keep her mother in vodka, she runs a little business telling people about their death dates. Maddie is bright and hard-working, but also a bit of an outcast, bullied at school, and with only one friend, a geeky boy nicknamed Stubby. When features 16-year-old Maddie Fynn, daughter of a barely functioning alcoholic mother and a deceased cop father. I was also irritated when people tried to talk to me when I was reading - always a sign that a book has my full attention.
I did NOT fall asleep when reading it in bed (as I do with almost everything lately), and I read the whole thing in 2 days. I found When to be the most fast-paced, engaging book that I've read in several months. Yeah, same premise.īut Leila Roy (who had also read Numbers) called When "entirely entertaining" anyway, and I decided to give it a go. This knowledge eventually gets her into unwitting trouble with the law, even though she is just trying to help people. At some point in her childhood she has figured out that the numbers are the dates that people will die. In both books, a teenage girl has spent her life seeing a set of numbers whenever she looks at people. I resisted reading Victoria Laurie's When because the premise seemed to similar to that of another book I had already read ( Numbers by Rachel Ward).
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