4A Independent Reading discussion

New drama unfolds in the next of "Complicit" by Stephanie Kuehn as Cate comes back into town and scares the heebie jeebies out of Jamie with how much she is "creeping" on him. Jamie remembers nothing about the conversation him and his sister had. When they are talking on the phone, there was confusion, "Jamie said "Why'd you run away from me the other day?" "I didn't run away. You did. You held your breath until you passed out. I kinda took that to mean our conversation was over."(182) Jamie also looks into the past and his old "apartment" which is really the basement of a tiny, sketchy house that someone rented to her. Jamie and his girlfriend, Jenny, go and visit the house and they see the old woman that rented to her. Jamie and the renter get into a discussion of whether Jamie's mom was a blonde or had black hair. ''"I have flashes. Like I know she had black hair like Cate. But long, like down her back. And I think that she had skinny knees. She smoked, I know that too." "Whoa, Whoa, that's not all right. Your mama was a blonde. waifish, too. Like your girl here, Don't think she smoked, either, not in the house.""(176) The fact that Jamie as the narrator is confusing because he sounds like he is right even though we are finding things when he actually doesn't know what he is talking about. This makes the book hard to read because you only know what Jamie is thinking, not what actually is happening.

Wow, this sounds very interesting so far. I can see how only getting one person's point of view (often riddled with incorrect facts) could make the book more difficult to read. I'm finding Jamie's actions to be very odd, as well. I'm looking forward to hear more about the book.