The gap between school girl and student is wider for Ella,
because she's lost her boyfriend in a car accident. Coming
to terms with life, she spends time with family and
friends, and heads off to college. Her best pal Josie is
going to the same college in Vermont, a long way from
California, so they make preparations and end up rooming
together. Their dorm is co-ed and Josie just wants to go
to parties and join societies based on how good-looking the
guys are. Ella's not so sure, but she's an adult now. She
can spot a creep. Helpful Jack and flirty, pushy Tristan
seem polar opposites, and she's in no hurry to get any
closer.
In THE WANDERERS, Tristan keeps trying to get Ella's
attention and since Jack has hooked up with Josie, Ella
reluctantly sees a good side of Tristan. But she's been
plagued by unpleasant dreams since that car crash, in which
she sees a watcher in the road, and now she starts to see
glowing eyes in dark places, following her. How much of
this is reality? And when one of the boys suddenly attacks
her, why can't Ella remember it the next day?
Jessica Miller has written an intense story of young people
without much adult supervision, as though once people turn
eighteen they are considered worldly wise and capable of
dealing with all crises. From broken glass injuries to
reckless drinking, things do go wrong and peer pressure is
apparently more important than exam results. The
paranormal happenings only really start halfway through the
tale. After a student has been found dead in a pool of
blood and the dorms are closed, I was a little surprised
that the two girls should check into a hotel and book spa
treatment, manicures, pedicures, facials, massages. And
buy new dresses. Suddenly Ella is told a family secret
which turns her life around, and the story heads off in a
whole new direction. I thought her parents should have told
her before, at least when she turned eighteen.
THE WANDERERS is very much a tale of two halves, beginning
as a college story and turning the corner to paranormal, so
readers hoping for otherworldly action had better be
patient. The mood shifts to horror and there are no
guarantees of anyone coming out alive. Young adult readers
might like this tale of college with a difference.
What do you do when you learn your family is the one who's
holding all the
secrets. Secrets that could get you killed...
Ella is looking forward to starting
college in the fall with her best friend Josie. She’s
looking for a place where
she can get away from her overbearing parents and two older
annoying
brothers. Unfortunately Ella realizes that sometimes the
past comes back
to haunt you. Ella soon learns that the man who terrorizes
her dreams is in
fact real and coming after her. When one of her classmates
is murdered,
Ella slowly recognizes this is not some strange coincidence.
Ella fears that
the boy she’s falling in love with is the one who stalks her
dreams and no
longer knows who she can trust. When she finally learns the
truth of her
families deepest secret, Ella has to face her demons by
taking out one of
the people she thought she could trust…before they kill her.
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