Stalker Girl
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
What started as a harmless search for answers quickly spirals into an obsession in this captivating novel.
She wasn’t always like this.
Carly Finnegan has a life. Not a perfect life, but a life. She has friends, a cute little sister, a passion for archaeology. But then Brian, her first love, breaks up with her, and Carly is crushed. When she discovers he’s seeing someone new—Taylor Deen—she’s devastated. Yet also curious. What does Taylor have that she doesn’t?
A lot, according to the Internet. Taylor comes from a well-known family and lives in a big Greenwich Village brownstone. She has a talent for photography and the prizes to prove it. She sounds perfect. But is she? Carly sets out to see for herself. One glimpse is all she wants. But one glimpse isn’t enough. Before long, Carly’s risking everything to get closer to Taylor, the seemingly perfect girl with the seemingly perfect life.
How do you know when you’ve crossed the line between interest and obsession? And, once you’ve crossed it, can you ever go back?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
As discomforting as waiting for a character in a horror film to finally get axed, Graham s novel follows high school senior Carly, as her seemingly innocent desire to see her ex s new girlfriend, Taylor, in person turns into a day spent trailing her every move. Donning different hats and faking cellphone calls whenever Taylor glances her way, Carly follows Taylor all over Manhattan. The tension of this first section all but disappears during a long flashback to Carly s romantic summer with Brian, which, along with details about her family life, gives readers subtle insights into her behavior, without justifying it. Carly s family is disintegrating, her mother splitting from the boyfriend they ve lived with since Carly was young; this loss, coupled with Brian s dumping her, is more than Carly can handle. Carly s stalking is inevitably and humiliatingly discovered, but Graham (Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude) doesn t quite recapture the intensity of the beginning of the story. The omniscient narrator, though, gives readers a strikingly intimate perspective on Carly, following her with the same level of detail that she pursues Taylor. Ages 12 up.
