Wow I knew this book was going to different, after I started it I had problems putting it down. It started a little slow but you could tell it was worth the effort. It's sick and kind of twisted, but then there are families that are sick and twisted out there. This one was surprising to me, I kept waiting for her to blurt out the real secret of the family and then I was still surprised even though I had a feeling it was going to be that. Lane's Mother committed suicide when she was 15 years old. She never had a normal relationship with her Mother, and as badly as she wanted it, it wasn't to be.
She was sent away to a family she had never met, Grandparents she had never met actually wanted her, they had no idea where her Mom had run to. They didn't know she had a child. But then that was a reason to run. I didn't know just exactly why until almost the end of the book. I kept hoping Lane was going to get out of there for good, she did for a while, but then she went back as her cousin who also lived with her Grandparents, Allegra, came up missing. There was something to Allegra being gone and Lane knew it. She wasn't going back to Las Angeles, until she found out what happened to Allegra.
This book was one that I won through the ReadItForward people, hoping for an honest review which I've given it. The books is creepy and dark, but very worth reading!
Here is the description as found on Good Reads: Roanoke girls never last long around here. In the end, we either run or we die.
After her mother's suicide, fifteen year-old Lane Roanoke came to live with her grandparents and fireball cousin, Allegra, on their vast estate in rural Kansas. Lane knew little of her mother's mysterious family, but she quickly embraced life as one of the rich and beautiful Roanoke girls. But when she discovered the dark truth at the heart of the family, she ran fast and far away.
Eleven years later, Lane is adrift in Los Angeles when her grandfather calls to tell her Allegra has gone missing. Did she run too? Or something worse? Unable to resist his pleas, Lane returns to help search, and to ease her guilt at having left Allegra behind. Her homecoming may mean a second chance with the boyfriend whose heart she broke that long ago summer. But it also means facing the devastating secret that made her flee, one she may not be strong enough to run from again.
As it weaves between Lane's first Roanoke summer and her return, The Roanoke Girls shocks and tantalizes, twisting its way through revelation after mesmerizing revelation, exploring the secrets families keep and the fierce and terrible love that both binds them together and rips them apart
