CAGE OF STARS by JACQUELYN MITCHARD
EXCELLENT! (5/5)
I read this book back in late 07 for my first college class, and I loved it. It was one of those books that I had to read in long periods because it kept me hooked. At this time I wasn't as big a fan of reading as I am now, but I loved it. If anything, this book kind of led me to where I am now, wanting to read more. I haven't read any of Mitchard's other books yet, but I want to. Currently I'm half way through reading My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, which is awesome thus far.
Anyway, let me know if anyone else has read this or if anyone else wants to give it a shot (I will convince you to do so, lol). Here's a summary via Amazon:
A young Mormon girl finds herself torn between retribution and forgiveness in The Deep End of the Ocean author Mitchard's latest. Twelve-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Swan witnesses the murder of her two sisters in her family's yard in tiny Cedar City, Utah. Murderer Scott Early is immediately apprehended, but is diagnosed with schizophrenia and ends up spending just three years in a state mental hospital. The rest of Ronnie's family turns to their faith to forgive Early, visiting him just before his release after a battery of drugs have restored him to normalcy. But Ronnie remains angry and haunted by her inability to save her sisters from him, and as she comes of age she tracks Early to San Diego, becomes an EMT, talks his wife into hiring her as a nanny for their infant daughter, and starts planning her vengeance. But as Early's life comes into focus, Ronnie's plan leads to an unexpected, if overly summative, climax. Ronnie progresses from a stock girl-next-door type to a young woman with considerable emotional depth, and Mitchard understatedly portrays her attempts to navigate romance and other interactions as a Mormon raised very "of the Church." The results are sweet and solid.