Meet Me in Barcelona
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3.0 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A surprise trip to Barcelona with her boyfriend, Jake, seems like the perfect antidote to Grace Sawyer's current woes. The city is dazzling and unpredictable, but the biggest surprise for Grace is discovering who arranged and paid for the vacation.
Carrie Ann wasn't just Grace's foster sister. Clever, pretty, and mercurial, she was her best friend--until everything went terribly wrong. Now, as she flees an abusive marriage, Carrie Ann has turned to the one person she hopes will come through for her. Despite her initial misgivings, Grace wants to help. But then Carrie Ann and Jake both go missing. Stunned and confused, Grace begins to realize how much of herself she's kept from Jake--and how much of Carrie Ann she never understood. Soon Grace is baited into following a trail of scant clues across Spain, determined to find the truth, even if she must revisit her troubled past to do it. . .
Mary Carter's intriguing novel delves into the complexities of childhood bonds, the corrosive weight of guilt and blame, and all the ways we try--and often fail--to truly know the ones we love.
Praise for Mary Carter
"A touching novel." --Publishers Weekly on The Things I Do For You
"This is guaranteed to become one of the books on your shelf that you'll want to read again." --The Free Lance-Star on The Pub Across the Pond
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Aspiring country singer Grace and her boyfriend, Jake, are thrilled to win an unexpected trip to Barcelona. Soon after arriving, however, Grace discovers that her long-estranged, semisociopathic foster sister, Carrie Ann, is in Barcelona too, and is up to her old games, accompanied by another unwelcome visitor from Grace's past, creepy stalkerish Stan. What starts as a prank soon becomes dangerous and deadly. Reader Mitchell's narration is hit-or-miss. She is excellent at voicing manipulative Carrie Ann, her voice by turns wheedling, affectionate, hurt, or coldly sarcastic, whereas Grace and Jake sound fairly generic. Mitchell's accents are off-putting: a character from Barcelona has just a vaguely Spanish accent, with lots of "Joo want help with that?" and a character introduced as Belgian has a vaguely French accent. the entire book is narrated in one consistent tone, which undercuts the ever-increasing danger of the plot. A Kensington hardcover.
