The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
The End of Everything, Megan Abbott
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The End of Everything

Author: Megan Abbott

Narrator: Emily Bauer

Unabridged: 8 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/07/2011

Categories: Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Thirteenyearold Lizzie Hood and her nextdoor neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable, best friends who swap clothes, bathing suits, and fieldhockey sticks and between whompresumablythere are no secrets. Then one afternoon, Evie disappears, and as a rabid, giddy panic spreads through the balmy suburban community, everyone turns to Lizzie for answers. Was Evie unhappy, troubled, or upset? Had she mentioned being followed? Would she have gotten into the car of a stranger? Compelled by curiosity, Lizzie takes up her own furtive pursuit of the truth. Haunted by dreams of her lost friend and titillated by her own new power at the center of the disappearance, Lizzie uncovers secret after secret and begins to wonder if she knew anything at all about her best friend.

About Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott is the Edgar Award-winning author of several novels. She received her PhD in English and American literature from New York University and has taught literature, writing, and film studies at New York University, the New School, and the State University of New York at Oswego. She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anke on June 26, 2012

I can't decide how to rate this book - very good? Very bad? It certainly is well-written and has some beautiful prose, some very good descriptions of the confusing times when you are 13 and everything in the world seems to be shifting and changing. I stayed up way too late to finish it in one go bec......more

Goodreads review by Trudi on February 18, 2013

Can you remember the first time you ever had the wind knocked out of you? I was about ten. I was playing with my cousins out in their front yard. There was this fence that ran about 2 feet off the ground that we liked to walk along, imagining tight ropes and balance beams. It was during one of these......more

Goodreads review by Debbie "DJ" on July 13, 2015

WOW! This is the first Megan Abbott book I have read. While this may be more of a 4 star book, it gets a 5 from me! I simply adore Megan Abbott! The beginning of this book had me all smiley and nostalgic. Never have I heard girl pubescence so exquisitely described. The scabs and bruises, the racing......more

Goodreads review by Greg on May 29, 2013

Evie goes missing on May 28th. I finished this book on May 28th. Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln and Lincoln's was named Kennedy. Weird, right?......more

Goodreads review by Dannii on December 04, 2016

Actual rating 4.5 stars. I read Dare Me by Megan Abbott earlier this month and, since then, have been collecting everything she has even penned in the hopes of binge reading all of them over the coming months. Both Megan Abbott and the dark contemporary genre are quickly proving to be my new favourit......more

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