![]() At least she wasn't as irritating as her best friend, Betts, who was completely self-involved. She just isn't as strong a female character as I was expecting going in. Of course, that is not to say that she should not have involved the police in this case, or that she should have taken more risks to find her stalker. ![]() The novel mentions that Shelby had a hand in solving some other mysteries, though, so perhaps in other books in the series she takes a more active role. Shelby works out a few things at the end, but she seems to be more of the object of the mystery and not the detective herself. ![]() Shelby is being stalked, with emails, phone calls, and deliveries, but the police do the majority of the detective work. I wouldn't necessarily put this on the same "detective" shelf as the other YA detective novels I've read this summer, as the protagonist, Shelby, doesn't really seem to be the main person who is working on solving this crime. ![]()
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