Series: No One Else Can Have You (bk. 2)
Genera(s): Realistic Fiction/Mystery
Subjects: humor, comedy, murder, mystery, small towns,
winter
Setting: Friendship, Wisconsin (which is north of the
Wisconsin Dells) before Halloween
POV/Tense: 1st person present tense. Kippy’s POV.
Age/Grade Level: Teen
Length: 260 pgs.
HC/PB: Hardcover
List Price: $17.99
Publisher: HarperTeen
Summary/ product description: “Geeze Louise, for such a
small town, there sure are a lot of murders in Friendship, Wisconsin.
After
helping to catch the man who murdered her best friend, Kippy Bushman was
looking forward to life returning to normal. Well, at least as normal as it
could get in a town like hers. But then the unthinkable happens: Kippy finds
her boyfriend, Davey, in his house, barely breathing and surrounded by pills
and empty beer bottles.
The
sheriff is quick to rule the incident an attempted suicide, but Kippy refuses
to believe it. She and Davey are completely in love; there’s no way he’d ever
hurt himself. Right?
Kippy
swears she saw someone else at Davey’s house that night and is convinced that
person tried to murder him. Without any real evidence, though, no one—not even
Kippy’s own father—believes her. So she has no choice but to team up with her
former nemesis, Bible-thumping Libby, to try to catch this new killer. But in a
town where everyone has their own secrets and a next-door neighbor could be a
serial killer, who’s left to trust?”
My Review:
Kippy Bushman was almost murdered and has a leg cast
to prove it. She caught her best friend’s killer, but the Sheriff took the
credit for it, and made her look like a crazy person. The killer was a friend
named Ralph who’s totally a sociopath and now locked up in Green Bay
Correctional Facility. He keeps sending her creepy letters and calling her.
When Kippy find her boyfriend passed out on the night
they planned to have sex, she calls 911. She think she saw a shadow figure and
that no way could Davey commit suicide, but they rule it as attempted suicide
because the bottles of alcohol and empty pill bottle. Kippy enlists Libby, a
girl who used to be mean to her, but who’s now her only ally, to help her find
evidence of Davey’s attempted murder. Filled with mystery, crazy twists and
hilarious laughs, it’s the perfect sequel.
This book series is set in (Wisconsin) the hat of the
state I live in (Illinois), I place I love dearly and the state that I visited
the most. I’ve seen more of Wisconsin than Illinois. And I’m familiar with
Wisconsinisms and their love of the Packers and cheese and all that.
Friendship, Wisconsin is a real town near Baraboo, which I camped at Devil’s
Lake State Park last year. The real Friendship, of course, is nothing like the
one in the books.
The humor in this book is my favorite part. Sometimes
it’s very dirty and full of swearing and things that make me cringe just
thinking of because it sound erotic, but I cracked up reading this so many
times that I sure that if I had read this in public, people would be staring at
me. I think the characters came along better in this sequel. Kippy seems less
strange and more smart than she did in the first book. Libby’s nice to her now
and really helpful. Rose, the anger management counselor, is now dating Kippy’s
dad Dom. Rosa is so hilarious. She’s Polish and speaks in broken English and
calls Kippy by the most hilarious pet names, like Mud Dumpling, and says things
like “Soup is on.” I’m like 20% Polish myself and I find her hilarious.
I recommend this series to people who love watching
comedies, or reading books by Heather Keeble or Gretchen McNeil.
Cover Art Review: I love the donuts! They’re so cute….until
you read the book and realize why they’re on the cover.
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