A review by badwolfreads
Lakewood by Megan Giddings

dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Lakewood

Megan Giddings

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OPENING LINE: "Lena's grandmother's final instructions were that the funeral should be scheduled for 11 a.m. but would start at 11:17 when everyone would be there and seated."

ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY: Lena agrees to be part of a mysterious research study to help pay her mother's medical bills but she quickly finds out there's more to the study than she thought.

• This was such an interesting plot

• Poor Lena, she really felt trapped

• Kept me engaged - I wanted to keep reading to see what would happen next

• Author did a great job of creating a fever dream kind of feeling

• The studies being done and the invasiveness of them was disturbing

• I liked how the author tied it in to testing on African Americans (similar to the Tuskegee Experiment)

• I would've liked to find out what the point of the studies were 

• Story kind of ended abruptly