Review: Accomplice by Eireann Corrigan

Sep 9, 2010 by shanyn

Title: Accomplice
Paperback, 296 pages
Author: Eireann Corrigan
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Publication Date: August 1, 2010
Source: Book Expo America
Buy: Amazon

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Book Summary:
They’ve gotten good grades – but that’s not good enough. They’ve spent hours on community service – but that’s not good enough. Finn and Chloe’s advisor says that colleges have enough kids with good grades and perfect attendance, so Chloe decides they’ll have to attract attention another way. She and Finn will stage Chloe’s disappearance, and then, when CNN is on their doorstep and the nation is riveted, Finn will find and save her. It seems like the perfect plan – until things start to go wrong. Very wrong.

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Review:
SLIGHT SPOILERS

The summary of Accomplice pretty much… sums it up. Two girls fake a kidnapping. Upon reading this, I was under the impression that there was a large part of the plot not revealed here, but I was wrong.

Basically I got slightly bored while reading this book – I already knew what was happening because I had read the summary, and the other events in the book that happen because of this ‘kidnapping’ are pretty predictable – police searches, upset friends. I kept reading, waiting for a major twist or scandal, and didn’t really get one, which left me even more disappointed.

I think that this book could have been better if it would have dealt slightly more with the transformation of a few characters throughout the process – how it affected them, how their lives had changed. It did touch on this a little, but an in depth study of this (with perhaps more dialogue happening between our narrator and individuals that weren’t her family or her friend’s family) would have intrigued me more. As it stood, I pretty much expected all of what happened to happen. None of the characters really stood out to me, and I was actually very irritated that the girls had decided it was a good idea to do this kidnapping in the first place.

A pretty quick read, Accomplice just simply was not for me. I was able to finish it, but I’m not sure I can pinpoint a demographic it would be better suited for. If the plot summary intrigues you quite a bit, you may be more interested in the story and the characters than I was.

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