is evocatively rendered, and the over-bright sunniness of the setting is effectively utilized in direct opposition of the hidden, shadowy secrets scattered throughout the book. The scorching-hot, tinder-pile of a city that is Pasadena and the outskirts of L.A. It’s engaging overall, and the writing style and atmosphere is suitably noir-y. Smith’s apocalyptic/dystopia novel Orleans and was a huge fan, but hadn’t read anything of hers since, and so I was curious to see what kind of noir story she would write.Ģ28 pages and a week and a half later, I have little to say about it. Pasadena is a noir YA novel clocking in at a breezy 228 pages. And, unwillingly so, does Jude’s armor as she comes head-to-head with her past. And as she investigates Maggie’s friends and family, the facade Jude had built around Maggie while she was alive starts to crack open. Drowning? Overdose? Suicide? No one knows. Her body was found floating face-down in her family’s pool. Maggie was Jude’s best friend, the only one she told her secrets. Maggie was the glamorous, larger-than-life, shining star all her friends revolved around.
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