Sara Jane Rispoli doesn't have any plans for the future other than to continue breathing. Her mother father, and brother have been kidnapped and possibly tortured. The kidnappers want the notebook that is in Sara's possession. She has a movie-obsessed sidekick with a roller coaster weight problem, an ill-tempered Italian greyhound, and a boyfriend. She's been chased for the past month by a creepy black ice cream truck. Her family's duplicity and the violent consequences of their their decisions have worn away parts of her causing her to question who she was becoming. She is determined to discover the secret of the ultimate power found in the final chapter of the notebook, believing it to be the solution to finding her family. She is cursed/gifted with ghioccio furioso or cold fury. Does she have a genetic predisposition to murder by electrocution? Sara has decided to let her Great Uncle Jack who has second stage Alzheimer's help her decode the final chapter of the notebook and the secret of the power when "horror snuck up on muffled monster tiptoes in a silent library..." Although this was a most engaging read, I felt the beginning dragged a bit...and the ultimate problem is left unsolved.
"being useful and engaged is vital to sustained inner strength."
"It doesn't matter who your family is, what they've done or not done for you. As you become an adult, only you are responsible for whom you become."
"This is real life. You don't have to be anything you don't want to be."
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