Oh Darling

Synopsis

"Blood On My Hands' written by Todd Strasser is an incredible yet misterious engaging book. This story begins in the night in which Callie Carson found Katherine's (a high school "Regina George") DEAD body lying on the ground, with a knife covered completely with blood. Dakota (one of Katherine's minions) found Callie and incriminated her saying she killed her. Everything is just happening so fast, Callie hears the sirens of the cops and she runs to hide in a children's playhouse, there she narrates her story with Katherine and how she made Callie brake up with her boyfriend "Slade". She begins to imagine what will happen when the police arrives and she recounts what happened with her brother Sebastian just a couple years ago. Hours later, Callie called Slade, at first he didn't answered but he ended helping her escape from the reality.

Secrets In Between The Lines..

"Sebastian, made national news by bludgeoning our father nearly to death with a two-by-four, leaving him brain damaged and mute and paralyzed from neck down. What's so hard to believe? Like brother, like sister, right?"(6)

I don't believe it is fair for Callie to still blame herself on things that he didn't even do. Ok maybe her brother was a little clumsy back then but they need to focus on the present not the past. It is funny how people only recognize all the bad things instead of the good deeds people do. Perhaps Callie was a very smart student with a bright future, but she will only be remembered about this only thing. "The Murder Of Katherine".

"Neighbors gossiped. Rumors spread. People around town began to avoid us. Mom sank inward and became depressed and withdrawn.

I ran."(16)

Gossip be like...

In my point of view, "I ran" makes me belive it is Callie's version of escape from reality. Escape from everythings that does her any type of harm. Escape from the people that jusge her and criticize her in any way. People don't actually realize how much harm they are making to people. Just like Katherine, all her life she made fun of people, she didn't care what she did and the consequences seemed preety rough in my opinions. Just like the saying says "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer".

Final Thoughts

This book is the so entertaining and captivating. My mind in 100% into this book as I flip the pages one by one. Just by reading these few pages so much hints and details have been revealed. the foreshadowing is making the story more misterious and creepy. My only thought right now is Why would anyone incriminate Callie? and Why would anyone kill Katheirne in the first place? This questions are haunting me and the only way to find an answer to them in by keep reading. I just hope that the real murderer is revealed, but who knows what will happen...