Gilt Hollow

This mystery/romance has all the ingredients to hook a teen reader: solid friendships, cute and stubborn girl, handsome and troubled and reliable boy, a wrong that must be righted...
I could see this story working quite well as a movie.

I 100% recommend this YA mystery novel. It's really good and has your mind reeling with the drama, suspense, and the ending, wow, is very dramatic! It's a really good book

This book was phenomenal. I loved it so much. I found myself reading this book at work, in the bathroom, walking out to my car after work, etc. I just couldn't put it down. Ms. Langdon just makes you fall in love with the two main characters and I actually cried at one point in the book. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends. The book was easy to read and understand. I kept turning the pages, wanting and needing to know what happened next. Great read.

Really liked this book! Loved the whoduntit keeping me guessing! And I loved the romance!

This book was fantastic! I enjoyed every aspect - the setting, the characters, the mystery. It was very well done and kept me reading all day long. Every time someone interrupted me, I just about growled at them. Almost. I restrained myself.

Gilt Hollow is a town full of eccentrics - the heroine, Willow Lamott, lives in a house with one of them, who just happens to be her mother. Others include the people who knit sweaters for trees - no joke! For the last three years, she has endured the accusations of being the girlfriend of a murderer - Ashton Keller - who was said to have pushed his friend off a cliff into the water below. Not normally a killing blow, but the boy hit his head on some rocks and died. Ashton, meanwhile, has been in juvie, believing that everyone, including his parents, have abandoned him to his fate. When he gets out early for good behavior (sorta), he wants only one thing - revenge for the boy he supposedly killed.

When Willow and Ashton meet again after so many years, there are feelings of anger, sadness, and mistrust. Willow believes that Ashton ignored the letters she sent to him, and Ashton believes Willow betrayed him by not sticking up for him. When they both find out that they are wrong, and that they have more-than-friendly feelings for each other, they begin to work together to find the real murderer. This begins a string of threats and attacks on both of them, and they have to race to find the murderer before they are killed themselves.

The great thing about this mystery was that I had no clue who the murderer was for quite some time. There were several suspects, but it was difficult to pinpoint the killer. I loved that, in the end, I was just as surprised and scared as Willow. My heart beat fast, my breathing sped up, and I turned those pages so fast that had it been a real book (I was reading a Kindle), the pages would probably have been torn.

This book grabbed me and sucked me into the world of Gilt Hollow. I didn't particularly want to stay there forever (the townspeople were a bit odd), but while I was there, it was a thrilling adventure. I would recommend this book to any mystery lovers out there. Even if you don't read YA, I think you will like this book.

*This book was provided to me via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review*

I loved this book so much!!!!! From the beginning to the end I was held captive by the magic of this book. I not only loved the main characters Willow and Ashton, as well as their names, but their voices also seemed authentic and real. I loved the opening and how the story unfolded and, like a good mystery book, it kept me guessing until the end about who'd done it (murdered Daniel). Ashton was my favourite character as he was so captivating (although Willow was a close second. She just didn't have the brooding bad boy turn sensitive sweetie thing going on and her character didn't seem to be as well developed as Ashton's). He had many complex emotions that I felt were explored well within the book and the pacing was good. As well as all this the romance was also good although it wasn't an integral part of the book it was still present. I also liked the fact that Willow had complete faith in Ashton and that they were old friends meaning their romance wasn't insta love.

Overall this was an amazing book that I thoroughly enjoyed, so much so I may have stayed up to the wee hours of the morning reading and ditched homework for it.