This book was really odd. The concept is a familiar one: boy gets in trouble with the law (smuggling "dope" across the Mexican border), decides to leave and never come back, takes money, runs away, but then for some reason decides to take his friend with them... What? He pushed him down a mountain or something and tells him they're brothers when he wakes up with amnesia.
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Riiiigggghhhhhtttt...
It's like the plot of a really bad telenovela.
But of course, in books like these, everything ends alright. The guy with amnesia's girlfriend find out he's alive and YAY happily ever after and stuff.
So much of this book was kind of odd for me to grasp. Maybe I just didn't like the fact that the girl was placing so much of her life on the guy (something that I have done in the past and have since learned to abhor now that I know what it does to people) that she just decides to stop her life when he goes missing and they think she's dead.
Maybe it's the character of Frank who is CLEARLY a sociopath. He seems to have no emotion and seems to not identify with anyone in his life and was even willing to kill "his best friend" in order to leave everything behind, not caring about his family or anything else he was leaving behind.
Maybe it was the fact that at the end of the book, you never hear what happened to Frank, the little brother who helped the girl find out what really happened to the missing boys. I came to feel strongly for Frank while I was reading and then by the end of it, I was left with nothing. NOTHING.
What happened to you, Frank? Dan and Joan, what did you tell people when you got home and everyone found out you were still alive? Dan, how did you explain you coming back but not Larry, who, by the way, is DEAD now?
You can't leave me like this, damnit! I need to know!
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