The last 50 to 100 pages of this book bumped it up from a 3 out of 5 stars to a 4/5 stars! It got pretty slow in the middle but the ending was thrilling and scary and illuminating and other astonishing type adjectives... 
 The writing by Kat Rosenfield is completely incredible. Like for instance: "A raindrop, early and alone in the face of the coming storm, fell from the sky and punched against my temple. It exploded, slithered and slipped through the loose hair near my ear, disappeared under the curve of my jaw." I would have written something along the lines of "And then it started to rain." Kat wins! 
 I'm sure their is a word to describe it English/Lit majors but the way Kat describes things, everything, random things is like sexy... She turns even the most mundane objects and sentences into sensual delights. (I used a thesaurus :) 
 With a gorgeous cover and a story that is more about a small town than the small town girl telling the story, Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone would make a very interesting and thrilling summer read!