The novel flips back and forth between then and now. Heather’s unsolved murder has lots of potential for red herrings and such and, of course, who doesn’t love a story where people are reunited after a trauma? I also thought the writing was quite good – no quibbles with that. Although I am long past my university days, I do enjoy books set on college campuses. First of all, I am all about angst and the relationship between Jessica and Coop has that in spades. So – there are lots of things I did like about this book. As if this drama isn’t enough, this reunion has the potential to stir up the unsolved murder of Heather, who was savagely stabbed to death senior year. One is married to another girl, and one is engaged to Caro. Going back to Duquette means seeing Mint (her boyfriend through college) and Coop (the boy she actually loved) again.

Rogers”), Heather ( “the confident blonde”), Coop (hot in a “one-time, get-the-bad-boy-out-of-your-system kind of way”), Mint (“the most beautiful boy” Jess had ever seen), Frankie (“tall and broad…in a way that screamed athlete”), and Caro (“small and olive-skinned and pretty”).įast-forward a decade though and she’s really only speaking to Caro, her bestie, and Jack. The East Coast Seven are “the people responsible for the best days of life, and the worst.” She’d met them all early in freshman year, and they’d bonded instantly. I ached for it in the deep, dark core of me: to be so good I left other people in the dust. She is keen to show her former gang, collectively known as the East House Seven, that she has made it. Jessica Miller is headed back to Duquette University to attend her ten-year class reunion. I am not going to say I didn’t like it because I was wholly invested for the first third and still hanging in there for the second, but by the last third I was just….nope. Sadly, I am ambivalent about the book as a whole.

I was excited to read Ashley Winstead’s debut In My Dreams I Hold a Knife because I love the title and that cover. There seems to be a lot of novels out there about college reunions these days.

Among the Heather by Samantha Young