Blogas Day 18 Book of the Year... Can You Geuss

The book of the year was between two books by an author that I love. 

I chose this book because I love it a little more then the other and it's The Ice Cream Girls. 

There is so many underlining factors in the book that so many different people can take away from it. Each of those topics can effect people differently. 

It's one of those books that covers the topics so sensitively yet makes you feel bad for all the characters involved. 

The Ice Cream Girls is about Poppy and Serena. As teenagers they had a ‘relationship’ with their teacher Marcus. Marcus is murdered and Poppy is sentenced to life, while Serena is free. Poppy is released after 17 years and is determined to prove that Serena had killed Marcus not her. They get the name The Ice Cream Girls because Marcus took them away one day, and got them Ice Cream and took a photo of them eating the Ice Cream. 

The book deals with 

- Student Teacher Relationships

- Murder

- Race

- Lies

- Truth

- Trust

- Controlling behaviours such as mental and physical abuse

- Death

- Secrets

The book is set in current times after Poppy is released from prison and also the past while both girls were in this relationship with Marcus. What I liked about the book is that it flipped the stereotypes of race around. That not all black people are murders. I loved the plot twists in the book, while reading the book I never had a definite person that I believed was the killer, I would think it was one, then something happened that made me think it was the other and so on and so forth. When the killer was actually revealed I was shocked at how obvious it was and I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together. 

It is one of those books that makes you think. 

Lauren

xoxo