The Quarry Girls
Jess Lourey
Amazon First reads pick October 2022
Finished January 1, 2023
My review 4 stars out of 5
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games.
Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.
Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger.
She also knows she’s next.
Four stars out of five
Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it’s not all fun and games.
Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can’t forget. They’ve decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when their friend disappears—the second girl to vanish in a week. And yet the authorities are reluctant to investigate.
Heather is terrified that the missing girls are connected to what she and Brenda stumbled upon that night. Desperately searching for answers on her own, she learns that no one in her community is who they seem to be. Not the police, not the boys she met at the quarry, not even her parents. But she can’t stop digging because she knows those girls are in danger.
She also knows she’s next.
Four stars out of five
Set in the seventies, this one brings back the small town feel with a sinister twist.
Just when I thought I knew what was going on, who dunnnit so to speak, there would be another twist.
I fell in love with Heather and wanted to know what happened to her, what happened to her mother, what happened to their family.
When things start happening in town, starting with the disappearance of a local girl, the questions start to outweigh my answers. In addition to just the feelings that come with growing up, Heather is dealing with the missing girl and a mentally ill mother and a mostly absent father (he works a lot!), she is basically raising her sister. It was just a really good book. A page turner to the end.
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