Ash's Reviews > The Girls Are Never Gone

This book should be called The Diabetes is Never Gone. As much as I like the representation within this book, the diabetes part of it is so overdone. I feel like I learned more about diabetes than the actual mystery of the house and the girls. As for the characters overall, they didn’t feel like their age to me. I assume this book is supposed to take place in an alternate 2021, but the references and fashion decisions are pretty outdated. Almost everything Quinn wears sounds like something out of the 2010s. The novel also could’ve been finished way earlier than it had. Most of the pages were just talking about diabetes and unnecessarily withholding information. And the conclusion of the mystery was just messy and confusing.(view spoiler)[ Why did Holly appear on the shore only to disappear later? Was this supposed to set up a sequel? Or was it a bad attempt at a cliffhanger? (hide spoiler)] Overall, I'm just confused.