Und für den Leser sieht es auch irgendwie perfekt aus. Dass ihre Hauptfigur mit der langweiligen Normalität, die sie jeden Tag erlebt, zufrieden ist.

Die Autorin zeigt auf sensible Weise, dass Rays Leben sehr vorhersehbar ist. Zunächst ist Ray ein fröhliches, etwas naives Mädchen, das ihr Leben liebt und die Menschen, die sie ihre Familie nennt. Ray ist ein Teenager und lebt ihr Leben nicht so, wie es der Produzent der Show gerne hätte. Die Handlung ist nicht neu und um ehrlich zu sein, sind Mr X, der Produzent und Ray nicht halb so gut wie die Originalfiguren des Films, Christof und Truman Burbank. Nach ein paar Kapiteln fragte ich mich, warum die Autorin dachte, sie müsse ein Buch über eine Realityshow schreiben. And suddenly she begins to think about things that she couldn´t have known because nobody on the island talked about them or because these things only happened outside of the island. Because after about halfway through the novel, I began to wonder how Ray could have known all the things she was thinking about when she´d grown up on a remote island. And somehow it looks perfect to the reader. That her main character is satisfied with the boring normality she experiences every day. The author shows in a sensitive way that Ray´s life is very predictable. First of all, Ray is a happy, somewhat naïve girl who loves her life and the people she calls her family. Ray is a teenager and doesn´t live her life the way the show´s producer would like it to be. X, the producer, and Ray aren´t half as good as the film´s original characters, Christof, and Truman Burbank.

Beth wants to find who killed her sister and put her own life back together, but as she gets closer to the truth, she learns that there is more than one person lying in Cold Creek.Īfter a few chapters, I wondered why the author thought she had to write a book about a reality show. When she gets a job at a local diner where Amber once worked, she connects with people who knew her sister. Beth has quit university, is lying to her parents, and popping pills like Tic Tacs. One year later, Beth Chevalier arrives in Cold Creek to attend a memorial for the victims of the highway, but it might as well be one week for the amount of pain that Beth is still dealing with after her sister, Amber, was murdered the previous summer. When Hailey McBride decides to run away from an unbearable living situation, she thinks that her outdoor skills will help her disappear into the Cold Creek wilderness, and she counts on people thinking that she was the victim of the killer. Hitchhikers have vanished along it over the years, and women have been known to have their cars break down … and never be seen again. For decades, people have been warned about the Cold Creek Highway.

Accidental Leigh by Melanie James