Tag Line: It isn't a game anymore. It never was.From the Back of the Book: Sixteen is too young to die. Lissa's life was always somewhat "different". She never had any friends. She never went out. She just kept to herself and wished for the day she could leave her home and go away. So why would someone want to kill quiet, withdrawn Lissa? Why is someone following her every move? Maybe it's just a weird, twisted game. Or maybe not...
Trigger Warning: This book contains some acts of child abuse. If reading about that will make you uncomfortable in ANY way, please be kind to yourself and skip this recap.
This book was published in 1995. The description on the back makes it sound like your typical girl-gets-stalked-by-the-bad-guy Point Horror. This is not that book.
This isn't going to be a funny recap, y'all. There was nothing funny about this book. In fact, after I finished it, I just felt very, very sad.
We begin at The End. No seriously –
the title of this first chapter is “The End”. Our protagonist
Lissa is telling us that 16 is too young to die. She's not wrong.
She's done all she can do and this is the last place she has to hide.
Her little parrot is with her. He has the very uninspiring name of
“Bird”. Bird is her best friend and she wishes she could manage
to get him to Josh's grandmother where he would be safe and taken
care of. She hopes she's wrong about the person hunting her down,
but in her heart she knows she isn't. She decides to go back to the
beginning to see if any other explanation can be reached.
And now we're at "The Beginning". The
chapter tells me so. Lissa is thinking of her first memory. She is
four or five and splashing in a plastic wading pool on a hot summer
day. Her mom stops her because she's making too much noise and she's
not allowed to make noise while her dad is working. Her dad works in
a barn just across the yard from the house but Lissa doesn't know
what he does in there. Her mom makes her stop splashing and come
inside to read quietly. Later her father comes in and demands to
know what all the noise was earlier. He reminds her mom that he must
have total quiet during the day. We're jolted back to the present
(the end??) at this point. Lissa is hiding under leaves and trying
to keep Bird warm in the chilly October air. She hears footsteps
nearing her hiding place.
The next chapter is called “The
Beginning, Part II”. I have a feeling I'm going to get whiplash
bouncing back and forth in this book. Lissa hears the footsteps near
and knows she's trapped and about to die. She decides to think of
more memories to distract herself. She remembers the day her long, dark hair was cut short. She is still little and hasn't started school
yet. She's sitting in the kitchen having her hair braided by her
mom when her dad comes in from the barn. He is in a foul mood and
starts slamming things around. When he notices what her mom is doing, he snaps that he hates long hair and tells her to cut it.
Lissa's mom offers to pin it up instead
and it enrages him. He tells her to cut it or he will. Lissa's mom
tries to take her into another room but he grabs scissors and cuts
one braid off next to her scalp. Her mom is forced to take her into
town to get the rest of her hair cut. Lissa remains quiet and stoic
through it all, but she never feels beautiful again.
Oh, wait. We're just now getting to
Chapter One. I guess the first three sections were prologues??
So I'm not sure what the point of the
prologues actually was, because Chapter One is set up the exact same
way. It begins with Lissa in her hiding spot hearing the footsteps
come closer and hoping Bird won't wake up and then she decides to
think of more memories. This time she thinks of Abby who she met
when she was in first grade. Abby was loud and aggressive and never
stopped talking.
In the memory, Abby asks Lissa what her father does
for a living and Lissa admits that she doesn't know. She tells Abby
that her father works in the barn all day and has to have it very
quiet but she doesn't know what he does in there. This sounds very mysterious to Abby and she is intrigued. Abby says she'll
just come over and they'll take a peek in the barn. The very idea terrifies Lissa but she figures it will never happen because she will never invite Abby over. But the very next day, Abby surprises Lissa by getting off the bus with her. She says that her mom gave her permission to go to Lissa's and play. It boggles my mind that Abby's mom agreed without
talking to Lissa's parents at all. She doesn't even know these
people. They could be cannibals or something.
Lissa doesn't know what to do. Nothing
like this has ever happened to her before. She has no choice but to
take Abby back to the house with her though because the bus is already gone. Lissa's mom is
surprised to see Abby. It's pretty clear that she thinks it's a
terrible idea to have this noisy girl over. Abby just kind of
steamrolls over her, though. She talks Lissa's mother into letting
the two girls sit outside and promises they'll be quiet. As soon as
the mom is out of sight, Abby heads right for the barn. She has
Lissa lift her up to the window. Whatever she sees in the barn makes
her gasp and take off running.
Lissa catches up with Abby and asks her
what she saw. Abby tells her that it's too hard to explain. Lissa
decides she needs to see for herself despite her fear. She heads
back for the barn and Abby reluctantly follows. She looks in the
window and sees her father painting on a huge canvas. It's abstract
and red and looks angry. It scares her.
Lissa's mom brings them back inside
where they have fun making cookies. They take Abby home before
dinner. She never comes back over after that day and Lissa never
really talks to her again.
We skip to a memory from a few years
later. Lissa's dad is invited to do an exhibit in a small New York
art gallery. Lissa and her mom discuss her father's art just a
little. Lissa wonders why they don't have any of it in the house.
Her mom says that her father is a perfectionist and if something
isn't perfect, he hates it. Lissa thinks that is probably why her
father hates her.
Lissa's mom says they'll get to go to
New York for the opening but a few days later Lissa overhears her
father saying he doesn't want to take her. Lissa's mom points out
that they don't have any family or friends to leave her with and
she's so well behaved that he won't even know she's there. Her
father says he doesn't care what her mother does with her but he
doesn't want her to come along.
In the end they take Lissa because they
have no other choice. Her father yells the entire way there. At the
opening, they find a chair in a corner for Lissa to sit in and then
schmooze the crowd all night leaving her there. They are staying in
two different hotel rooms and Lissa is scared to be by herself but
her mom won't stay with her. She says that Lissa's father will need
her to take care of him. It seems like that's all she does. She
spends 90% of her time taking care of her husband and 10% taking care
of her child.
We're back at the end and Bird wakes
up. He makes his way out of the leaves but quickly gets cold and
burrows back under with Lissa. He makes a sound that means he's
hungry and Lissa realizes she is too. It doesn't matter though
because she's going to die and it doesn't matter if it's with an
empty stomach or a full one.
She tries to remember life after the
art opening when her father had more work and they had more money,
but her thoughts keep returning to Josh who she met only a few months
ago. She still can't believe he noticed her at all. We get a flashback within a flashback which
I really HATE. She thinks about being in English class with Josh and
she's doodling and then she flashes further back to a time where she
was drawing in her room. She draws really tiny scenes in pencil with
fairies and animals hidden in them. She never shows them to anyone
because they aren't perfect and she's learned that art is supposed to be perfect. On this day, her mother calls her
downstairs while she's drawing. For some reason, she sticks the
drawing into a book and then takes the book downstairs with her.
Which makes no damn sense whatsoever. There was no reason to carry the book and the drawing down with her. Clearly this is one of those oh-so-subtle PLOT POINT HERE moments where a character does something completely bizarre with the sole purpose of moving the story forward a little. Sigh. Anyway, her mom wants her to weed the
garden, so she leaves the book and the drawing on the kitchen table.
Her father comes out of the barn, upset
that his work isn't going well and demands some food. They all go to
the kitchen where her mother begins to quickly make a salad. At some
point, her father knocks the book off the table and the drawing falls
out. He grabs it before Lissa can and then yells “What is this
trite garbage?”. He crumples it up and throws it across the room.
From then on, whenever Lissa finishes a drawing, she always crumples it up and throws it away.
Now we're back to the OG flashback of
English class with Josh. He sees the drawing and manages to get it
away from her even though she doesn't want him to see it. He's
fascinated and thinks she's incredibly talented. Lissa takes it
back, crumples it up and throws it away.
The next day he brings her flowers and makes a big show of
apologizing to her for invading her privacy. She doesn't know what
to do with this kind of attention. She's spent her entire life
trying to be quiet and invisible so her father wouldn't get angry and
now Josh is making people notice her.
Back in the end, Lissa considers
leaving her hiding place and trying to make a run for it through the
woods. She dismisses the idea quickly. Even if she can get away,
it won't change things. If she doesn't die that day, she'll die the
next or the one after that. There is no way to escape it.
Another flashback. I think we're before the English class incident but after the art opening. It's hard
to tell. A reporter wants to come out to the house to interview
Lissa's father. (Author's note: it's weird that we don't know their
names. Her mother and father, I mean. They are just referred to as
“her mother” and “her father”. I suppose that was a writing
choice because the book is essentially Lissa's thoughts and we usually think of
our parents as “mom” and “dad” rather than by their first
names or Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So. Still, it makes recapping awkward.
I don't think we even know their last name. If we were told, I
missed it.) Anyway, her father hates reporters and doesn't want
anyone coming out.
Eventually he comes around and a
reporter is sent out. She's a pretty woman and Lissa is amazed that
she's allowed to go in the barn. What's even more amazing is that
when they come back inside, her father is laughing and seems happy.
The reporter leaves and when the article comes out, Lissa is struck
by two things. One, her father is quoted as saying that he
needs total isolation to work and he loves to be alone, and two, the article doesn't mention Lissa at all.
A few days after the article is
published, a car pulls up to the house. A woman gets out with a girl
that Lissa vaguely recognizes from school. The mother says that
Nicollette is a friend of Lissa's and she wants to be an artist. It
would mean the world to her if Lissa's dad would critique her work.
Lissa's mom tells her that it's not possible because her father can't
be disturbed while he's working. Nicollette's mother pushes and says
that Nicollette can just observe him quietly then. Lissa's mom
refuses again and then her father comes slamming out of the barn.
Lissa's mom suggests that Nicollette
and her mother should leave but Nicollette's mom is having none of
that noise. She encourages her daughter to go up and talk to Lissa's dad.
He ends up coming over and is polite to the visitors, much to everyone's surprise. He tells
Nicollette that being an artist is a miserable life but he looks at
her drawings and tells her she has talent and she should keep at it.
Lissa looks at the work and is stunned because they are awful. She
can't imagine how truly awful her own drawings must be if her father
thinks they are garbage and Nicollette has talent. It was right then
that she gave up on the idea of her father ever loving her.
One day Lissa asks her mom why she puts
up with her dad. Her mom says that he's temperamental and
high-strung but charming and she loves him. Lissa can't figure out
why because her father is nothing but mean. She asks how her mom met
her dad. Her mom was a computer science major and needed an art
class for graduation. Her friend told her about an easy A where the
TA graded on effort alone. She signed up for it. At the last
minute, the instructor was changed and it turned out Lissa's dad was
going to teach the class. Everyone warned her to drop because he was
awful and made students cry on a regular basis.
At first it was awful. She had no
talent and he spent a lot of time insulting her. After awhile it
became funny, though. She was the comic relief of the class and he
spent all his time tearing her work apart so the others in the class got off
easier. Eventually she agreed to never take another art class again
and he agreed to go easier on her. After the class was over, he
looked her up. I think he missed having someone to take his temper
tantrums out on and he realized she was the only person on the
fucking planet that could put up with them. She started taking care
of him. She cleaned for him, shopped for him, cooked for him, put in
his grades for him and made sure he didn't miss deadlines. When she
went home for the summer, his life fell apart. But it's important to
note that he never called her or wrote to her or visited her. It
wasn't so much HER that he missed but the role she played in his
life. When she got back to school, he immediately contacted her
again to show her how much he'd fallen apart in her absence. He claimed he missed
HER and not what she did for him, but it was clearly a lie because he
never tried to see her. He didn't even really date her. She went
right back to taking care of him like before and then they just ended
up married kind of by default. They never really had anything
romantic going on. In her, he found someone to take care of his life
so he didn't have to. In him, she found someone who was charismatic
and the life of the party which she was completely not. She enjoyed
how she felt when she was with him. They didn't even have a wedding
ceremony.
Lissa's mom has no regrets. She says
she had nothing special to offer the world, so she's content taking
care of someone who does. This is so sad, y'all. I feel bad for
this woman.
Lissa wonders how her father felt about
her mother's pregnancy and Lissa being born but she's too scared of
the answer to ask the question.
Now we're flashing forward a bit to a
day a few weeks after Josh brought her flowers to class. A generator
on the roof of the school catches fire and school ends up dismissed
for the day. Everyone who drove can go home immediately. People who
ride the bus have to wait for an hour while the buses are called back to the school. Josh offers Lissa a ride but she doesn't
want anyone coming to her house so she refuses. He's hurt and
doesn't understand, but he offers to wait around with her until her
bus comes. They wander over to a little park and he heads for the
swings. She feels like he can read her mind or something because
she's always loved to swing.
He's surprised that she's smiling and
she tells him about how she used to wish that she could swing up into
the trees and just live there. He takes her further into the park
where there's a good climbing tree and he helps her climb about 20
feet up and sit on a branch. She's enchanted. They stay there until
they see the buses heading for the school. He tells her again that
he'll drive her home but she refuses again. She thanks him for the
swings and he thanks her for the smile.
We're back at the end and Lissa can
hear the footsteps nearby again. It's only a matter of time. She
wonders if she should think about some of the bad memories now.
Maybe she can heal some of them before she dies.
She flashes back to the year she was a
junior in high school. Finals are coming up and she is distracted thinking about her study plan during dinner and doesn't
hear her father ask her a question. Her mother gets alarmed when
Lissa tells her father she didn't hear him. He angrily tells her
that he's not going to repeat himself. She says “fine” intending
to follow it with an apology for not paying attention but she only
gets the one word out before he loses his temper even more. He tells
her that he won't put up with a smart mouth and orders her to her
room. Lissa goes as he continues to yell. When she gets to her room, she shuts the door
firmly. She swears she didn't slam it. Her father comes crashing in
her room, screaming at her for slamming her door. He orders her to
go back downstairs and then come up to her room in a civilized way.
She is so stunned by him being in her room screaming that she doesn't
move fast enough. He grabs her arm and starts to drag her.
They get to the top of the stairs and
Lissa wants to tell him that she'll do whatever he wants her to do
and she's sorry for upsetting him but she's too scared to get the
words out. He gives her arm a violent jerk and the next thing she
knows, she's falling down the wooden stairs. At the end, her leg
gets caught under her and breaks. He calmly comes down the stairs
and orders her to get up. She tells him her leg is broken and he
slams out of the house. Her mother helps her to the car and takes
her to the hospital instead of calling an ambulance. She begs Lissa
not to tell the hospital that her father was involved.
Lissa has bruises on her arm in the
shape of her father's fingers. When her mom sees it, she makes Lissa
put on a sweater to cover them.
A few days later is Lissa's 16th
birthday. Her mother is clearly feeling guilty because of the broken
leg and her father is ignoring her completely. Her mom says they can
go to the mall and get Lissa anything she wants for her birthday.
Lissa doesn't want to go. She's still not used to her cast and
getting around is hard. But her mom persuades her.
They get to the mall and it's pretty
quickly apparent that trying on clothes isn't going to work. Lissa
wants to just pick something and get this over with but she can't
fake enthusiasm for anything. Her mom suggests jewelry as the
perfect sweet 16 present. Lissa isn't the jewelry type but she's
over this and plans to just find the first thing that she kind of
likes. On the way to the jewelry store, she passes a pet store. Her
mom reminds her that dogs are too noisy and her father is allergic to
cats. Lissa goes in anyway, thinking maybe she can get a fish.
Inside she meets Bird the green, gray-cheeked parrot. The store owner tells
her all about him and Lissa decides Bird is what she wants.
Her mother refuses at first. She knows
Lissa's father won't approve. Lissa says she'll keep it in her room
and her dad never even has to know it's there. Her mom still won't
budge but, for the first time, neither will Lissa. When her mom begs
her to be reasonable, Lissa shoves up her sleeve revealing her bruises and asks if her dad
was being reasonable when he did that to her. Lissa's mom goes
white. Eventually she caves but she makes sure the bird can be
returned if there's any trouble.
The next day Lissa's mom tries to....I
guess I should say she tries to explain Lissa's father but it's
really an attempt to excuse him which is something completely
different. And disgusting. She tells Lissa about how her father's
parents were uneducated people who wanted him to grow up and do
something practical. They didn't like him drawing and his father
would beat him if he was caught doing it. His father called him gay
and berated him all the time. To escape, Lissa's father joined the
Army. After enlisting, he was sent to Vietnam.
I guess her mother thought that this
would make Lissa think of her father more sympathetically. I don't
know if it did or not. It just pissed me off. Whether his dad beat
him or not, he makes the fucking choice to be an abusive asshole.
The summer passes and Bird stays. Her
father ignores him and Lissa does her best to keep Bird out of his
sight. Otherwise, Bird goes everywhere with her and the two have a
deep bond. School begins again and one day Josh asks her for a
favor. He's really close to his grandmother and her birthday is
coming up. She really loves animals, especially birds, and he wants
Lissa to draw something for her. She tells him no because her
drawings aren't good enough but he protests that he knows his
grandmother would love one because Lissa's very talented. He doesn't
understand why she won't do this and she can't explain it.
She doesn't know why, but that night
she stays up well after midnight drawing. The result is her most
intricate picture ever. She intends to throw it away but ends up
taking it to school. She tells herself she won't show it to Josh,
but she does and he loves it. He wants her to sign it but the idea
scares her and she refuses. He offers to pay her for it or to do
something for her in exchange but she doesn't want anything in
return. Josh asks her to come with him to his grandmother's because
he knows that she will want to meet the artist that drew her gift.
Lissa isn't sure about that either.
The next day, Josh meets her before
school to give her a single red rose. He asks her to a movie on
Saturday but walks away before she can turn him down. She knows she
can't go but she wishes she could.
We flash forward some now. (Note From
Future Me: this is incorrect. We actually flashed backward but at
the time I though it was forward.) Lissa is taking Bird outside to
their favorite tree. Unexpectedly her father comes out of the barn
and starts across the yard. Lissa is startled. She's even more
surprised when Bird calls out to her father with the noise he usually
only makes for people he knows. Her father hears it and comes their
way. Lissa is terrified. Her father grabs Bird in his fist and
Lissa loses it. She starts lunging at her father and screaming for
him to leave Bird alone. Her father throws Bird down to the ground.
When Lissa turns away to check on him, her father wraps his arm
around her neck from behind and begins to choke her. He tells her
that she's already dead. He relaxes his arm and she tries to get
away but then his fingers close around her neck and start to strangle
her again. He just keeps telling her that she's already dead as she
feels herself start to black out.
When she comes to, her father is gone.
Her mother finds her and sees the bruises on her neck. She asks
Lissa who did this to her. Lissa tells her mother that her father
tried to kill her. Her mother refuses to believe it. She says
that he was probably just frustrated with his work.
I am not going to scream. I am not
going to scream. I am not going to scream.
I want to tell you how I feel about
Lissa's mother's response but I think it would be truly scary to
read. I don't think even Jessie has ever said some of the curse
words I want to say right now. I'm going to put the book down and
walk away for a minute.
Lissa is done. So am I. She tells her
mom that she won't live with her dad anymore. Her mom panics and
says she'll watch more closely from now on. She'll make sure Lissa's
dad is never alone with Lissa. Lissa says that it's not good enough.
If her mother doesn't find her a new place to live, she'll tell
every teacher, counselor and CPS worker she can find that her father
tried to kill her. Go, Lissa!
They leave soon after. Lissa's mom
drives to a town four hours away and they get a motel room. The next
day they rent a small little cottage surrounded by woods. They get
settled in and enroll Lissa in school. Lissa begins to relax and the
bruises start to fade. Lissa knows her mom calls frequently to check up on her father.
Lissa doesn't care as long as her mom doesn't reveal their location.
The school year starts and Lissa
settles in. She meets Josh. What? The way things were written I thought she met Josh before all of this. This is
why I hate books that skip all over the place. You never know what's
going on.
Lissa's mom drives home every day to
take care of her father. It's a four hour drive, McFann keeps
reminding us, and it seems impossible that she manages. That's 8
hours a day in the car. She's back every evening so she must only
spend a couple of hours with her husband. It seems like she wouldn't
get much done in that time.
Josh is determined to get Lissa to go
out with him. All she wants to do is to get through her senior year
and go somewhere far away for college where she never has to worry
about her father again.
One day in English class – is this
the only class Lissa has? Everything happens in English class – a
message is delivered to Lissa. She opens it up and is horrified.
She immediately leaves the classroom to go to the office. She asks
the secretary who delivered the letter. The secretary tells her that
an attractive man came in with her transcripts from her former
school. At the bottom of the transcript was the notation that she
had transferred to this school. He asked if she was, indeed, a
student and the secretary confirmed it. Lissa is terrified. She
asks whether the school gave the man her address. The secretary says
she didn't, but he might have seen it on the computer monitor when
she checked Lissa's information. This school sucks at protecting its
students.
Lissa decides she needs to run away but
she can't leave Bird. She asks Josh to take her to the end of her
street. He wants to take her all the way to her house but she's
afraid he'll be in danger if he does. When she gets home she finds Bird's cage
empty and there's a note stuck inside that says “You're dead”
just like the one she got at school.
Lissa decides her only hope is to just
run and not stop until she's somewhere safe. She heads outside but
as soon as she gets out the door, she hears Bird calling to her from
the woods behind the house. She heads toward the sound of Bird never
even thinking that she is probably walking right into a trap.
She locates Bird on a branch of a tree
and then she hears footsteps. That's when it dawns on her that Bird
was taken out into the woods to lure her into them. She hears a voice say “You're dead” and then she takes off running.
As they play “hide and seek”
through the woods, he tells her that she's already dead several times and she
notices he has a rifle. This just got serious. She realizes she
can't possibly outrun him so she looks for a place to hide. She
finds a hollowed out tree and ducks into it, pulling the leaves over
her.
And now we're caught up with the end.
It finally happens. Bird wakes up pissed off and makes a loud cry.
The footsteps start heading for her. Then, somehow, the sound of
Bird's cry rings out from a distant spot in the woods. Lissa is
confused. Bird didn't make that sound and yet it sounded exactly
like him. The sound from far away happens again and the footsteps veer off and head that way instead.
Josh suddenly appears behind her tree and tells
her to hurry up. He's left his car nearby but they have to hurry.
Somehow they make it without getting shot and Josh drives like a bat
out of hell into town. Josh tells her that he circled back after he
dropped her off so he could check on her. He saw a man come out of
her house carrying her bird. Then he saw her come out. Then he saw
the man begin to chase her all through the words with a gun. He
didn't know what to do or how to get her safely away. In the end,
Bird gave him the idea. When he heard Bird make his noise, he
imitated it from further away to get the man with the gun away from
her. It worked. He asks her who the man was but she can't seem it
answer.
Josh takes her straight to his
grandma's house and they call the police. She tries to reach her mom
by calling their old house and their new one but no one answers. She
leaves the phone number for Josh's grandma on the machine which seems
like a pretty dumb idea to me when she's hiding from a man with a
gun. They get Bird all settled in and then she gives her statement
to the police. After that, Lissa goes to rest in the bedroom for
awhile.
Lissa's mom shows up and apologizes for
not being more careful. While she's there, the police call her mom
down to the station. Lissa stays with Josh's grandma. In fact, she
stays with Josh's grandma for awhile even after it's all over. She
can't bring herself to face the house or the woods ever again.
We're told it's months before Lissa
pieces everything together. Vietnam was to blame. Apparently during
a tense time of combat, Lissa's father and his squad were sent to
check out a small village. They had rounded up a bunch of locals
when a young, dark-haired girl came out of a tent holding an object. Everyone was
jumpy and nervous and Lissa's father shot before he was really sure
what he was shooting at. It turned out to be an innocent girl
and the object she was holding was a rolled up picture of a green
bird that she had drawn.
The psychiatrists at the hospital said
that her father had PTSD. The reason he made her cut her hair and
keep it short was because it reminded him of the girl when it was
long. The fact she later got a green bird made something in him snap
and he had to kill her. Which makes no damn sense, y'all. If he
felt guilty ABOUT killing her, why would he then try to kill her
again?? Anyway, Lissa feels sorry for him. I wish I could say the
same but I can't. Being beaten is awful. War is hell. PTSD sucks.
I understand why he's messed up. That doesn't excuse him hurting his
daughter or chasing her through the woods with a gun. I'm sorry, it
just doesn't. I feel sorry for Lissa because this will be with her
for her entire life.
Lissa isn't ready to go back with her
mom just yet. She ends up living with Josh's grandma to finish out
her senior year of high school. Josh is infinitely patient with her
and amazing and kind and just everything that Point Horror boys
usually aren't. He tells her that he'll teach her to trust him by
never letting her down. I swoon. The book ends as she lets him hold
her hand.
Final Thoughts: This book made me sad. I can't even explain to you why it did, but the overall mood was just so damn depressing. It didn't feel like any of the others I've recapped for this blog. It certainly didn't feel like the book the back blurb described. It was 200 pages of why Lissa's life sucked and, for once, it actually DID. It wasn't a case of her feeling sorry for herself over first-world problems or her being spoiled and self-entitled. Her life actually sucked. There was no stalking going on. There was no "game". Her father abused her and then tried to kill her. This book really had a different feel from the others. It was just sad. I'm going to try to shake this one off and hope the next one is a little more on Point. (See what I did there??)
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