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Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Weinberg has just gotten kicked out of another prep school, and has consequently found herself shipped to her Uncle Levi's farm in the cold, isolated town of Marbury, Maine.

When Lindsay arrives at a big, old farmhouse miles from civilization, she is greeted by her uncle’s new wife, a goy with a little too much Jesus decor for Lindsay’s taste—with Uncle Levi mysteriously away on a business trip. Not only that, but Lindsay isn’t the only teen staying there. In fact, there is a small group of teens going through some kind of reform program. Up at dawn. Manual labor all day. No phones, computers or tablets.

Things start to feel hopeless until Lindsay meets the twins, Phin and Cass. They live on an island off the Peninsula’s coast—and they have internet. Lindsay convinces the others at Haven House to sneak out for a party on the island, and the night is incredible. At least…what they can remember of it. All of them wake up in their beds with sea-shell mementos, no memory of how they got home, and wicked hangovers. All of them except one. And as the disappearances and mysteries pile up, Lindsay and the others realize that they have become involved in a terrifying fight to survive, before the Cove claims them all.

Short and Sweet Review

Lindsay has just gotten kicked out of her most recent prep school and instead of finding a new one her parents decide to send her to her Uncle Levi’s farm in Marbury, Maine. When Lindsay arrives she quickly learns that her uncle is not around but his wife Irene is and she’s very religious and running a home for troubled teens, which is how Lindsay meets the other teens staying at the farm. The routine consists of the teens waking up at dawn and doing manual labor for the rest of the day, it’s a very secluded town so there’s no phone service. Lindsay starts to feel like things are hopeless until she meets twins Phin and Cass, they live on an island and have internet access. Lindsay convinces the other teens to sneak out and go to a party on the island. That night things go well but the next morning no one can remember what happened and one of the teens is missing.

The Cove had an interesting synopsis which really draws you in. Lindsay is out main character and when we meet her she’s at her prep school learning she’s getting kicked out. Lindsays parents send her to Uncle Levi’s farm an uncle she hasn’t seen since she was a kid and she also has never met his wife. When Lindsay meets Irene she just thinks she’s overly strict and really religious. Lindsay learns that her time at the farm isn’t going to be easy there’s no technology and a lot of manual work needing to be done. Lindsay befriends some of the other teens at the farm since they’re all in it together. Lindsay was an okay character she had some funny lines, sometimes she would push the limits with what she would say but self aware enough to know when she has gone too far and dial it back. When Lindsay and the others go to the party and come back the next day to one of them missing Lindsay knows something weird is happening. I thought the story was a bit slow but after that party things start to pick up speed. There’s animals and people dying and the teens start to do some digging and things are worse than they originally thought. I liked uncovering things with the characters, I was able to figure out part of the mystery. I always say weird things happen in small towns and this one is no exception. I did enjoy how things ended.

Overall, this wasn’t a bad book but it also wasn’t my favorite. I think it would have been better if the pacing wasn’t so slow. I did like the mystery aspect and finding out what was going on. I would recommend this book, I could see people enjoying it more than I did.