I just love the dynamic of characters sitting in a car talking, because they have nothing else to do.
Instead, she goes on a wild goose chase with her best friend, Kat, and her long-time crush, Trevor. She starts questioning the future she thought she wanted. Parker is me in high school.Īs Parker delves deeper into Julianna’s life, she starts sneaking around and breaking rules to find out what really happened. And I’ve always loved mystery and making the truth known. I’ve always been the good girl–the one who never did anything wrong. In the process of snooping, she learns the truth, puts two and two together and decides it’s her job to solve the mystery of the death of Summit Lakes High’s so-called golden couple. When she finds the late Julianna Farnetti’s journal in a box of class journals from ten years ago that she’s in charge of mailing back to the authors, she can’t help but snoop. She’s never done anything wrong, and she’s never gone out on a limb and done something daring or adventurous. She’s a good girl, overachiever, and teacher’s pet.
Parker is a descendent of ROBERT FROST! He’s definitely my favorite poet, and I just loved the hat tips to his work throughout the story. Golden just sounded too amazing to pass up, though, so I went for it! Let me tell you, Golden is amazing! I don’t know why I waited so long! Golden was my very first Jessi Kirby book, and since SO many people I know adore her I was a little worried I’d fall short of jumping on the bandwagon. And she soon finds that taking the road less traveled makes all the difference. The mystery ends up taking Parker places that she never could have imagined. Armed with clues from the past, Parker enlists the help of her best friend, Kat, and Trevor, her longtime crush, to track down some leads. Reading Julianna’s journal gives Parker the courage to start to really live-and it also gives her reasons to question what really happened the night of the accident. These are the secrets that were swept away with her the night that Shane’s jeep plunged into an icy river, leaving behind a grieving town and no bodies to bury. But Julianna’s journal tells a different story-one of doubts about Shane and a forbidden romance with an older, artistic guy. Julianna Farnetti and Shane Cruz are remembered as the golden couple of Summit Lakes High-perfect in every way, meant to be together forever.
So when fate drops a clue in her lap-one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery-she decides to take a chance. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on May 14, 2013
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