The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook

The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Skye Thorn is a high school senior that has grown up with a mother that thinks she’s psychic leading Skye to begin her own business of tarot readings. For Skye though she knows there’s no psychic ability behind her strangely accurate readings, she just knows how to really read people and with a little help reading personal files when working in the office she’s spot on with her “predictions”.

Now that high school is coming to a close though Skye finds herself desperate for money when it doesn’t look like her plans of moving to New York with her best friend will ever come to pass from her readings or part time job. Before she knows it Skye finds herself pulled into what should be a harmless prank leading her to predict the whereabouts of a missing girl but Skye soon finds herself in over her head and wondering just how far things may go.

The Hanging Girl is my second book I’ve read by Eileen Cook and just like the first it took no time at all to be deeply engaged in the story within the pages. Somehow this author has managed to pretty much lay it all out there with her stories at the very beginning but still drag a reader into the intensity of the characters and story even with thinking you know where the book will take you. But having read her before I knew that eventually I was going to go where I’d never expect and just happily went along for the ride.

Skye is a bit of a girl from the wrong side of the tracks so to speak having been raised by a mother who was no more than a child herself when Skye was born. She sees herself as waiting tables with no future while all her friends will be moving on which leads her to get herself into more than she bargained for looking for that way out and a step up in life. I loved her rather sarcastic nature and quick wit and immediately became invested in finding out just what she was getting herself into.

Overall, I’d definitely recommend checking this one out if a fan of young adult mystery/thrillers. It was engaging from the start and a definite page turner as the story unfolded with plenty of twists and turns to keep one guessing until the very end.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.