The setting of this book was taken place in a normal, casual community, joined together by good families, well-kept schools, and hard-working people. The best thing about this community was that it was pretty involved, which was a good thing, relating to this book. .
The setting in this book ended up influencing the characters and their actions a lot. As far as the whole community thing goes, that's how they were all bonded together, by their school, their social activities. It was the typical teenage life for them. And then the other part of the book took place in the Sanaria Mountains. The mountains is where they hid the body and did all their planning.
Summary.
This book started off introducing Susan McConnell. She was the main character. Susan and her family were very close and although Sue was a bit nerdy and quiet in public, with her family she was always well-liked and welcomed. It starts off with Sue running into her crush for years, David Ruggles. He was the class president and most liked and adjusted children at their school. His father left when he was a baby in search of a new life and life filled with freedom and no responsibility. In the mean time, David and his mother lived together and helped take care of David's sickly grandmother.
The other characters that were introduced and pretty well involved were three students by the names of Mark Kinney, Betsy Cline, and Jeff Garret. Mark Kinney was always liked by his peers and always kind of been the kid who was mysterious, had that intriguing factor to him. He came from a broken home and watched his house go up in flames with his father in the house. He was one traumatized young man. He usually played the whole, calm, casual guy who always had something clever to say and the guy everyone always listened to. Betsy Cline was the typical blonde bombshell who was also well liked by her peers and well worshiped as well.
