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“...the quick pacing will keep readers engrossed in this series kickoff as Alice and Charlie try to sort through the soap opera that is their new lives and figure out who they can trust. It’s Gossip Girl for Connecticut’s Gold Coast.” –Publishers Weekly
The Innocents weaves a saga of nail-biting drama, breathless romance, and gothic mystery perfect for fans of ABC's Revenge.
Though they share the same blood, Alice and Charlie couldn’t be more different. Alice is older (by one year and one day), shy and reserved, a cool blonde, a painter, a reader, a thinker. Charlie is feisty and uninhibited, a wild brunette, the kind of girl who punches a bully right in the mouth. They hate each other. They love each other. They stand by each other, when no one else will. They’re sisters.
Then their parents divorce. Soon, Alice, Charlie, and their mother are leaving their old life behind. They’re saying goodbye to their cramped Cambridge apartment and driving along the rocky Connecticut coastline—to their stepfather's summer estate in the wealthy town of Serenity Point.
The minute they drive through the gates, they wish they never had. Their arrival reopens old wounds, memories of lost loves, best friends—and bitter rivals. The people of Serenity Point thought the past was dead and buried. They were wrong.
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Lili Peloquin grew up in New England, where the first breeze of summer still reminds her of a whispered secret. The Innocents is her first novel. Follow her on Twitter (@lilipeloquin).
Emotionally close sisters with distinct and credible personalities find themselves whisked from their divorced mother’s apartment in a working-class neighborhood to the palatial home of her new husband at a Connecticut beach resort. Alice, 17, is quiet but not passive, and 16-year-old Charlie is rather a wild child, but with the ability to think reflectively between bouts of partying. The creepiness of their wealthy new community and their mother’s apparent personality change since her marriage are subtly and inexorably portrayed in a consuming, almost mesmerizing story. The town’s youth, whether rich or not, have secrets, and the adults are telling a variety of lies. The new stepfather’s own teenage daughter, Camilla, died in what he first says was an accident but that later he notes was suicide. When Alice finally finds pictures of Camilla, she and Charlie both see a stark resemblance between Alice and the dead girl. An excellent launch to a suspenseful series, with good enough writing to allow the reader to overlook what might have seemed psychologically didactic in a lesser concoction. Grades 8-10. --Francisca Goldsmith
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