Review: The American Girl by Kate Horsley

The American Girl by Kate Horsley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Quinn,an American exchange student stumbles out of the woods in France and is hit by a car.When she awakens in a hospital she insists that she has no memory of what has happened to her or her exchange family who have mysteriously disappeared.

Molly Swift,a journalist is intregued by the mystery of what happened to Quinn and is prepared to do anything to learn the truth.Then a shocking discovery is made,the town and media turn on Quinn and Molly is the only one left to unravel the mystery and clear Quinn's name but is she really innocent or is the amnesia all part of the plan of a cunning killer.

The American Girl is a intreguing mystery that is told in alternating points of view by Molly and Quinn.Molly's parts are all set in the present while Quinn's alternate between blog posts about her time with her exchange family The Blavettes and the events that led up to her stumbling out of the woods,video diaries that she records as time passes and she gets bits of her memory back and her interactions with Molly.

I liked Molly,she was a journalist who had a conscious,she started out just using Quinn but she ended up genuinely caring about her and wanting to help her clear her name.Quinn was a very mixed up young lady as we all are at her age,she made mistakes and got herself caught up in a situation that she had no control over.I'm sure many of us have been in situations where we have let our hearts overrule our heads although I don't think many of us have found ourselves going through what Quinn went through in this book.

It's a very good mystery with some interesting characters and settings,the descriptions of the creepy dark woods and caves really added a sense of menace and atmosphere to the story.The mystery of what happened to the Blavettes and if Quinn is involved or not is intriguing and you don't find out the truth until near the end of the book.I really enjoyed reading this and I hope that Kate Horsley is going to include Molly in another of her books in the future.