Thursday, January 15, 2009

Review of Shift by Jennifer Bradbury


Win and Chris have been best friends for so long that they’ve become known in town simply as “WinandChris”. However, their post-high school plans entail attendance at different colleges, forcing them to forge separate paths in life. The boys decide to spend the last summer before college traveling out west together on a coast-to-coast bike trek, camping under the stars along the way. Camera in hand, they capture memories of all that they experience as they journey across the country. But the camera can’t quite capture all the dark secrets that Win is hiding from Chris. When Chris discovers a large wad of money concealed in Win’s bag, he becomes suspicious. Win begins acting strangely, but even Chris is unprepared for Win’s final actions. A few days short of reaching their west-coast goal, Win disappears, leaving Chris to struggle through the last miles alone. Chris returns home and heads to college, assuming that Win has done the same. Shockingly, Win never returns. What follows is a fast-paced mystery, as the FBI becomes involved, and Win’s power-hungry father begins making serious threats towards Chris’s family. Chris was the last person to see Win alive, but he doesn’t have a clue where Win might be now. Or does he? Review by Ellen Parkinson

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