Wherever Nina Lies Chapter Summaries

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The book Wherever Nina Lies is about a girl named Ellie who’s sister goes missing 2 years prior. Her friend works at a used clothing store and a guy comes in with a box of stuff for the store. When Ellie and her friend, Amanda, look through it they find a drawing that Nina drew of Ellie with a number on it. They called the number and found out about the party. When they went to the party Ellie met a guy named Sean and they talked about finding her sister(who Sean actually knew and wants to kill her, because he’s psycho and it bothers me) and how Sean’s brother died so he has sympathy for her thinks it would be nice to drive her around Nebraska, Arizona, and California, from Illinois looking for Nina. Ellie goes to these different places looking …show more content…

They find a tattoo parlor where Nina visited and worked for a little bit then left. Sean and Ellie find out about a band Nina knew called Monster Hands, they meet a couple called the Jamies’ and they all drive to Phoenix, Arizona where they are playing their last gig. Ellie hopes Nina will be there and she goes to talk to the band about her. The band says they were friends with her for awhile and then she asked to be dropped off at house in California. Sean and Ellie go to the house and California after staying in a hotel with the Jamies’. Before they leave for California Amanda comes to the hotel to convince Ellie to get away from Sean because he is a weird psycho stalker. When Amanda tells Ellie what she heard about Sean and that he killing his brother Ellie doesn’t want to believe it but it’s true. She yells at Amanda to leave and she does. Sean heard all of this so he tries to convince Ellie that he isn’t crazy and that he just want to find Nina in California and kill her. Nina was dating Sean’s brother before she disappeared and Sean believed that him and Nina could be together if his brother was out of the picture so he kills him with some drugs he got at school because he’s ridiculously …show more content…

I understand that it was the author’s first novel and it was great all around but it needed more detail about Sean and his motive for wanting to kill Nina because he was the one who killed his brother and he obviously knew that so why would he go after Nina? In the book it told us that he loved her but I didn’t understand why he would want to shoot her when Sean and Ellie find her? Maybe because while Ellie was on the trip with him he fell in love with her and decided that he couldn’t be with Ellie if Nina was still alive because she was living proof that his brother was dead and it was all his fault. The author needed to read through the book one last time then ask herself what she needed to improve. She was probably rushing through finishing the book and that made it sloppy at the end. Another thing I didn’t like about the book is the random characters that showed up for one page but could have had a deeper explanation for them. Like the Jamies’ and Nina’s friend who was stalking Ellie for her and letting Nina know how she was doing. He could have had a deeper role and be more involved in the story than just a couple

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